hello, welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode back with us. what have you been watching, mark? hello. a strange week. we have every day, a teen romance with a difference. we have let the sunshine in, juliette binoche, in the new film by claire denis. and the awkwardly named the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, which does exactly what it says on the tin. chuckles. what are you starting with? let's start with every day, which is adapted from a ya novel. it's basically a teen love story in which one of the characters, known as a, moves from body to body.

every day they wake up, they are a different person. so our central character, rhiannon, finds herself essentially falling in love with somebody who, every time she sees them, is a different person. it sounds like an unworkable conceit and yet somehow, and against all expectations, it works rather well. here's a clip. why are you doing this? the day we met, i felt something i've never felt before. i don't want to let that go. about that day, how is it ok what you did? i let you kiss me because i thought you were justin. i — i told you something incredibly personal because i thought you were justin. you never would have understood. i was in his mind, rhiannon. iknow him. are you serious? i know him better than you do. he's my boyfriend. you know you shouldn't be with him. who should i be with, then, you? i mean, off the top of my head, that's an option. this isn't funny, a. this is so weird. i mean, today you're... not everyone's body

aligns with their mind. but i'm not asking you to give vic a chance, rhiannon, i'm asking you to give me a chance. that line, that not everybody‘s body aligns with their mind, sort of sums up the central thesis of the film itself. i went in to see it having not seen any of the trailers and not knowing anything about it at all. at the very beginning, i had five minutes of thinking, "hang on, what's going on? where are we?" what i thought worked well about it was, that actually, it explained itself very clearly. i started to believe in the characters, although the conceit itself is, you know, unusual and supernatural. i thought the film had a really good heart. i mean, it was a film about the polymorphous perversity of love and the way in which you fall in love with a person and the essence of who that person is. it reminded me of a number of different things. at one point, they start talking about demonic possession and it reminded me of thejohn wyndham novel, chocky, which i read when i was young and i really, really liked it. there was a film recently, a swedish film called girls lost,

which was a sort of body swap movie. and then there was a japanese anime that we reviewed here on the show a year or so ago called your name which was about a boy and a girl separated by distance and time who swap bodies and start experiencing life from each other‘s perspective. and all of those things came to mind in the middle of this, which is also working as a completely functional teen romance. it was jolly, it was fun, it had a kind of sense of adventure. and i was really impressed by how well it pulled off this quite complicated conceit. because it's sounding complicated, i'll be quite honest with you. but is it aimed at adolescents? it's absolutely a ya film. and partly when i was watching at the beginning, i thought, "ok, i'm not going to engage with this because obviously i'm a 58—year—old man. whatever it is, i'm not the target audience." but the thing about it is it's made well. it's made in a way that tells its story in a way that is perfectly understandable and entertaining.

and also, as i said, i think it has its heart is in the right place. the central sort of message of the film is really interesting. it manages to pull off that weird supernatural conceit in a way that makes you think, "ok, i buy this." and the real trick of this kind of movie is to make you think, "ok, that is a really complicated and vaguely absurd idea, but it's ok, i don't mind, i'll go with it." i'm buying it, yeah. i did go with it and it works surprisingly well. i went in knowing nothing about it at all. i was confused for about five minutes and then i was completely there. and i really enjoyed it and i was really surprised, really pleasantly surprised. well, and that's always a good thing. it is. now, the return of a great film—maker and the wonderful juliette binoche. juliette binoche in let the sunshine in, which is a mistra nslation of the original french title. so claire denis, who has an extraordinary career as a film—maker. this is a bit of an oddity. juliette binoche plays somebody who is an artist, who is discontent, who is single, who is pinballing between a series of unfulfilling relationships. the structure of the film, although it is broadly linear,

actually ends up being like a collage, a series of snapshots, a series of vignettes from a life. the good thing about it is that you get the sense from juliette binoche‘s character that she is out of kilter, that she is out of sorts. there is something about the way in which she wears the clothes that she wears that makes it feel like she's playing a role. she's a character who is playing a role. and it's done really well. i mean, she is a brilliant performer. so much of what that performance is about is the physicality. something about the way she stands, the way she walks that tells you she is performing another role. the odd thing about it is it's that strange mixture of on the one hand kind of quite brittle, quite sharp, quite satirical comedy. and underneath it, this kind of sense of depth and sadness which sort of rises and falls with the movie itself. i have to confess i wasn't entirely won over. i know some people have completely fallen in love with it. i've heard people rave about it.

i know some people have found it absolutely infuriating. and i think i fell somewhere between the two. i could see that it could be infuriating and there were moments in it which i thought, "0k, fine, enough of this already." but it's a great central performance and it's a really odd film that has strange turns that you don't expect. and something happens in the very final act which i can't reveal at all but it was a film that right up until the last moment kept wrong—footing me. for that, i think it needs to be praised. it is an oddity though and it's absolutely not for everyone. ok, i'm intrigued by that one so i shall have to see it and report back. 0k. the final film, i should know the title off by heart. go on. have a run at it. i shouldn't have to look down at my paper because i've seen the trailer so many times. it's about guernsey. the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, which everybody who knows the novel will know. so it's based on a very well known and very sort of well—liked novel. lily james is juliet ashton,

an author who, in the post—war period, receives a letter from someone in guernsey saying "i've got one of your books and it's very important to me because we form this literary society and your story actually intertwines with the literary society." and this weird thing about the potato peel, she said, "i don't understand — what is all that about?" they start corresponding. she decides that actually what she needs to do is go to guernsey because there is this society which is — they found great strength from reading books and sharing stories and she thinks it's a great idea. her publisher is not so keen. here is a look. sidney... j—j—j—ust hold on. sidney. hold on one second. what the dickens is that? juliet, you cannot go to a book club meeting on the island of guernsey. it's a leap of faith they'll even let me in. you're reading in cambridge friday. but the society, they meet on a friday. they can't wait. i'll only be gone the weekend, back monday. edinburgh.

you're in edinburgh, monday! i honestly don't know why we provide you with an itinerary, ijust don't. well, this is your fault. you said yes to the times. excuse me, my fault? sidney, what books, what reading did for these people, finally, i'll have something serious to write. this wouldn't just be to get out of reading izzy in cambridge, would it? you're not... you're not running away? ha ha ha, you're too funny. well, i can't imagine mark would let you get very far anyway. let me! so half of downton abbey's in it. that tells you something about the demographic it's going for. it does, and everything about the look of it and the title of it pretty much tells you you know the film you think it's going to be? it's that film. i mean, i struggle to think of a film which contained fewer surprises. that's not necessarily meaning its without charm. there are things — the performances are good, it is a good—looking film, the scenery is largely devon and cornwall — not

guernsey, as it turns out. there is a bit early on in which we meet her fiance, who, short of having a label on his head, "not the right guy"... chuckles. then, of course, the first thing that happens when she goes to guernsey, she meets the most attractive pig farmer you have ever seen in your entire life. it's kind of charming, it's got a great ensemble cast, i mean, a really, really good cast, and everyone is clearly having a good time making it. the lack of surprise did trouble me slightly. there is a certain darkness underlying the story, obviously, because it's a story of occupation, a legacy of occupation. but that is very much in the background. which is a shame because actually, that story in itself is fascinating. horrendous for the residents at the time but historically fascinating. absolutely. that story has yet properly to be told on screen. this is exactly what you would think from the poster. it's — there was a phrase used once by a critic who said goes "down nicely with a cup of tea."

and it's exactly that film. it should be dismissed for that because it is exactly what you expect it to be. i wanted a little more grit, i wanted a little more substance. i wanted something other thanjust thinking, you know, "this is a well—made picture postcard story." particularly because the subject sounds like it ought to be rather deeper than it is. but it's perfectly fine. i smiled occasionally, you know. perfectly fine. "it's perfectly fine," said mark kermode. they're not putting that on the poster. best out is the film you're going to say, "but jane, i think you'd really like it!" and i'm going to say, "mark, i would be scared out of my wits." ok, so this is a quiet place, which is a really brilliant horror chiller. i know you are a huge horror movie fan. i'm all about this, yes. my mission is to get you to go and see more horror movies. this is a really good example because this is a story about an environment in which we are being terrorised by monsters who effectively see with their ears. it's what they hear is,

you know how they locate you. so as long as you are silent, you are safe. sound is dangerous. the real genius of it is, it's a film which, when i saw it, made the audience fall silent. it made the audience go quiet. it's to do with tension, it's to do with atmosphere and build—up. it has really well observed characters because it basically, it's about a family. and the way in which the family may or may not hold together. all the performances are very solid. it's really perfectly pitched. yes, there is danger and threat and the rest of it but it's all to do with the film—makers using the technique of silence, using the absence of sound to really draw you in. and i think you'd really like it. just as piece of film—making, it's thrilling. it's edge—of—your—seat stuff. it is scary but it's a horror film. yes. dvd is a fascinating story. 0h, we're moving on now? we're moving on! dvd is bombshell: the hedy lamarr story, which is a story i didn't know about. obviously, she was known as a screen

icon but it turned out had this whole other career as an inventor, somebody who was working on inventions that effectively ended up giving us bluetooth and wi—fi and having patents that were used by the us navy for frequency—hopping technology. it's really fascinating, not least because it's a really, really good story and a story i don't think is particularly widely known. and it's also about that idea about the world can only accept you as one thing. the world will accept a public persona in which you are one thing and that's it. once you're that one thing, you can't be something else. yes, fascinating. really, really interesting story. thanks very much, mark. thank you. fun as ever, even if i'm not going to go and see it. a quick reminder before we go, you'll find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well. that's it for this week. enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye.

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