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do but it is obviously the way to do it. so shall we all planning new career? my thanks, that is all we have time for tonight but my thanks to you both. don't forget, you can see the front page of the papers online on the bbc news website seven a week. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, katy and john. coming up next, it's the film review. from all of us, good night. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. what have you been seeing? an interesting week.
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we have breaking in, a home invasion thriller with a twist. we have revenge, about which there's been a lot of press — a gruelling thriller. and the cured, a new look at the old zombie formula. new zombies! oh, it's a dark week, mr kermode, it really is! yes, the cannes film festival is on, it's a strange week. ok, let's start with breaking in. this is a home invasion thriller with a maternal twist. the tag line is payback is a mother. gabrielle union is shaun, who inherits a house basically like a fortress. she goes there with her children and it is immediately broken into by thieves. then her children are held captive in the house, the thieves try to find a safe, and she is outside. they have said to her, "you are a woman at the mercy of strangers, you have no chance" but they have seriously misjudged her desire to prove that, in her own words, mums don't run. here's a clip. you've got to be kidding me.
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yo, eddie! gunshots. was that mom? those we ren't gunshots. she took out the lights. we should have killed them the moment we walked in here. here she comes. that is billy burke from the twilight movies, who plays the father in the twilight films. i loved them and loved his character. now he is on the other side of the law. don't mess with her.
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i get that! i like that — that's a positive! that is pretty much the interesting thing about the movie. very much a nuts and bolts b movie thriller. it has a couple of nice inversions. i like that idea she is outside the house and they are inside, that kind of turned it around. i like the idea that theyjust completely underestimate her, theyjust imagine she is a mother, and actually she proves more than a match for them. she doesn't need a man to come in and save her and it is a great performance and i think she makes the most of it. that said, it is not a movie that will change the world. very much, as i said, very nuts and bolts b movie. which, under other circumstances you might see going straight to dvd, but it's short, it cuts to the chase, i was never bored. if it's not remarkable, it's impressively solid, with a nice central twist. i liked it more than i thought i was going to. i love it when i can pick out your little phrases i know
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that they want on a poster — "impressively solid". impressively solid. a good one. we like her. so that's good. take us through the next of your challenging week. this is revenge, this attention—grabbing movie from french writer—director coralie fargeat. a young woman takes revenge on men who assaulted her and left her for dead. taken as a feminist take on the rape—revenge genre, often quite a misogynist genre. this has a garish visual style, almost a day glow look to it, sometimes a comic book sensibility. mad max: fury road cited as one of the inspirations. it is very stylish, very well done, very efficiently done. i'm not sure it's as ground—breaking as some critics think. people have been saying it's the first of this genre of movie done with a feminist line, but that is not true. but what it is is a very good calling card, a film which announces itself with its style. it's very gory, and speaking as a horrorfan, i like that,
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that when it goes into that generic stuff, it does it properly. i know that you are not a horror movie fan. there were reports of some people finding it too gory and not able to get through the screenings. you get reports of people practically needing an ambulance and so on and you never know whether the distributors have said, "well, let's talk that up because it will attract attention" but it sounds pretty grim. i remember at the edinburgh film festival when somebody in front of me passed out during a screening of irreversible and all i could think was "that will go on the posters!" as you know, i will never be able to judge that one for you, as you know, because i simply can't face it, i'm afraid. the cured? not a big zombie fan, i understand? this is a curious week! laughter. this is set in a world after an outbreak of a virus which has turned people
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effectively into zombies, they have done terrible things, but then they find a cure, and the cured people are now sent back into the community as the cured. it's an irish horrorfilm with a political slant. it's about how do we reintegrate these people who have done terrible things but are now apparently different? here's a clip. the cure was supposed to be some sort of great hope but things are just getting worse. that's not fair. my daughter was released. she can't hurt anyone any more. people need to give them a second chance. we have given them every chance. they have not integrated. no wonder crime is on the rise. they are not like us. have you seen the news, the violence ? there is something wrong with them. crosstalk. they are just scum! all chant: scum!
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left is home. please make you way to the left. left. left is home. what i like about this film, the best of these movies, they are based on ideas. this is fairly low—budget. ellen page plays the widow who accepts her brother—in—law back into the house. he has been cured and no—one is quite sure what he's done. it's about ideas, reintegration, about how you deal with the aftermath of strife. how you deal with the aftermath of a battle. and if you look at george romero's zombie movies, night of the living dead, it's about racism, dawn of the dead is about consumerism, day of the dead is about vivisection, so they are all really about something else. this is really brief before it goes to dvd. that is where might find its main audience but it is a film of ideas and sometimes they are not perfectly expressed but at least it has them,
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and i thought it was kind of intriguing. i am interested in whether it is about discrimination and interesting that it is set in ireland, about two sides violently set apart from each other. i think it is kind of more universal than that. i think it is very much about what you do in post—conflict situations. but absolutely, discrimination, it is a theme of it, because although with the people who are cured are saying we are being discriminated against and we have rights like everybody else" and people are saying, "no, you don't, because you were these terrible things in the past." i think you can read all these different interpretations into it and that for me is an indication of a good film, that afterward you can say, "what do you think it was about?" i think the ideas in it are valuable and interesting, even if sometimes you can see the limitations of the film itself. idon‘t mind. i'd rather have a film that raised questions than a film thatjust solved it all and was perfectly put together but didn't really raise any difficult questions. mmm. best out is lean on pete. yes, 0k. there were things about this i loved. there were lots of things —
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the performances, the central thrust of the story, a young man, his journey, shall we call it? it is, yeah. through life, through wild deserts? so, the andrew haigh adaptation about the story of a boy and his horse. what i liked about it... i though on the one hand it was a coming—of—age story, yes, but, ithink it is more universal. i thought it looked beautiful, and i thought charlie plummer was fantastic. so much about him reminded me ofjames dean, so vulnerable, so fragile, but a real sturdiness, and the scenes with just him and the horse, and the scenes with him and steve buscemi, who i know you... they're a highlight of the film, aren't they? they were an absolute highlight of the film. i watched it as someone who knew nothing about horses and you don't really need that. no, you just need to know about loneliness and growing up
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and i think most people know about at least one if not two of those things. and steve buscemi is great. the movie is kind, even its darker characters it's kind to, nobody is two—dimensional or thrown away. beautiful landscapes as well, if you want that as a bonus. what about anyone who might want to watch a dvd? previous palme d'or winner, the square. the cannes film festival is on at the moment. you know i don't go. christian is the creator of this museum, who seems to be terribly right on, terribly, you know, thinking about equal rights and everything, but actually due to the theft of his mobile phone, he's in torment. it's a very interesting piece. at times, it's darkly satirical. there is a scene in it about a piece of performance art that is one of the creepiest things i have ever seen, but, and i say this, it is not a horrorfilm! laughter. 0k? you are a good man, you brought me something! curious week but an interesting one.
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thank you very much. dr kermode, i must get it right! i will get told off if i get that wrong again. 0k, see you next week. a quick reminder before we go, all the film news and reviews from across the bbc at bbc.co.uk/markkermode, and our previous shows are on the iplayer of course. that's it for this week. enjoy your cinema—going. goodbye. good evening. the weekend started on a disappointing for some of us, but it has been brightening up pretty nicely out there. through the day on sunday, there was an decent spells of sunshine. he is like this one from argyll and bute. it are full blue skies and still water with light winds as well. high—pressure
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this week often in charge of things. similar conditions, mostly dry. spells of warm sunshine, although we are expecting a cooler interlude through the week. two areas of cloud, one working from the west, the other setting to these. clear skies in between. light winds as well. they chilly night out there with temperatures dropping pretty quickly. —— dropping pretty quickly in the early hours of monday. cities could be four or five degrees, possibly cooler in the countryside. through monday after the fresh start, lots of sunshine through scotla nd start, lots of sunshine through scotland through the spine of the country. more cloud working on for northern ireland into the west of scotla nd northern ireland into the west of scotland and a bit more cloud for parts of eastern england, the south—east, perhaps i'm missing is around some east coasts of scotland. a little cooler around the north sea coasts, but inland, highs of 19 or 20 degrees. quite pleasant with
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light winds around, too. and then we have high—pressure rain to extend its influence across the uk. at this weather front works in from the north—west as we head on into tuesday. a weak weather front, but cloud will come in with some rain from northern ireland, and into scotla nd from northern ireland, and into scotland tuesday morning. cloud lingering in the east, but it should then and breakup, so i think an improved day for parts of lincolnshire and cant, for instance. the east will see the highest of the temperatures. anywhere from aberdeenshire to sussex will see temperatures 18— 22. even 23 degrees. it will be fresher behind the weather front. 16 or so for belfast on tuesday. and then that cold air will filter south across the country behind this front as we look towards the middle of the week. this is our colder interlude. the blue colours are returning on wednesday. when separately the coolest day of the week, after the warmest on tuesday. a bit of cloud for southern parts of england and wales. a cool northerly breeze
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around the north sea coasts, but inland it should not feel bad at 12— i6 inland it should not feel bad at 12— 16 degrees. things should stay mostly dry and also warm up a bit as we head towards the weekend. the headlines: i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. indonesian police say one family, with four children, carried out coordinated suicide bomb attacks on three churches, killing 13 people. will not tolerate this kind of caldas, i am calling on everyone to fight terrorism. —— we will not
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tolerate this kind of caldas. fiercely —— cowardice. more fallout from malaysia's shock election result. a leading businessman says sorry for backing the ousted prime minister. i'm babita sharma in london.

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