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shocking. i don't suppose there will be karaoke. we don't know. it is quite a large guest list. 200 at the private reception, 600 at the afternoon reception. i suspect if there are stories leaked they will be nice stories which were sent harry and meghan to be what appear to bea harry and meghan to be what appear to be a very fun couple who i am sure are enjoying their night. well, i think most people enjoyed this and had a lovely day, didn't stay. i am sure they will be having good fun now. “— sure they will be having good fun now. —— didn't have a. that is it for the papers to now. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. 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, martin and kate. just some breaking news. paul
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proust, 65 years old, has been charged with murder. that is coming from the metropolitan police. that is paul proust, 65 years old, charged with the murder of 85—year—old ms coleman. she was home —— found dead in her home. police have released that information tonight. now it is time for the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode in his squeaky chair. what do we have this week? very interesting, we have on chesil beach, adapted from the ian mcewan novel. deadpool 2, satirical sequel. and the camera d'or prizewinner at cannes last year,
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jeune femme. beautifully pronounced. thank you, my french accent is terrible. the practice paid off. so, on chesil beach, an adaptation of ian mcewan‘s beautiful book. and he's done the screenplay himself. it's about newlyweds in the early ‘60s, they go to a hotel on the beach for their honeymoon. outside, the landscape is wild and raw, but inside the hotel things are chilly and distant. it's clear that neither of these two people, played by saoirse ronan and billy howle, have been intimate before. as they move towards the wedding, we see the flashbacks to their past lives, their tensions with theirfamilies and their relationship, right back to their first meeting. here's a clip. hello.
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would you like one? it's all about a hydrogen bomb landing on oxford. can't think of anything better. do you mind if i tell you something? i've got to tell someone. tell me. i say, do we know you? i've just heard, i got a first in history. that's fantastic. let's get on with handing these out, shall we? so, theirfirst meeting, very intelligent and accomplished young people, but they have a disastrous wedding? basically, it's about the way in which they both have problems
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with intimacy, and we get to see their lives up until that point. the difficult thing is this. it's a really, really well—loved book, it's a very intense book, and it's hard to put that on screen because cinema tends to be full of stories about sexy romances. this is completely the opposite. it's about emotional stillness. the stuff i think it does really well, i think the performances are great, saoirse ronan is great, she never puts a foot wrong. i completely believed in this couple. the other thing that works very well is that it manages to shift tween the time periods, between the present and the past very well. that shift is delineated and distinctive through the music. the music tells you where you are, but it also joins scenes together. i think one of the things that may be difficult is that because it's not an obviously cinematic subject, they had to work quite hard with the way in which the story is told, because a lot of it is to do with internal issues. now, i think they've
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done that rather well, although i can imagine some audiences finding it tough. the key thing is that it's done with real integrity, real honesty, and towards the end, there are certain things which narratively don't quite work, but they worked when i watched it, because on an emotional level they work. it's a real triumph or a film which is so much about emotional repression, and has some really dark things going on in the background, that it actually was emotionally engaging. it's a love story and it's a heartbreakingly tragic love story. and very evocative of its time. yes. some people who have seen the book will want the book. this isn't the book. it's a film of the book. i should approach with caution. deadpool 2. yes, did you... don't ask me, you know the answer is that i didn't see it. does the world need another superhero sequel? i was surprised by the first one, i laughed all the way through. i thought it was doing something disruptive and anarchic and i thought it was rude. i thought the last third descended into crashy—smashy stuff i didn't care for.
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so i thought, here we go again. twice as expensive, half as funny. all the special effects and fight scenes are bigger and slicker. an all—star cast. yet what we've lost is the kind of anarchic charm of the original. i laughed pretty much all the way through the first two thirds of the original. i can count on one hand the laughs i had through this film. the general feeling, i know some people love it, i know many of the fans who went to see it as soon as it opened really, really enjoyed it, and that's fine. from my point of view, the first film was trying to be kick ass and not quite getting there but having some of that charm. the second film is trying not to be kick ass 2 but unfortunately falls into that territory. doesn't ryan reynolds carry it on his own, removing the fourth wall and talking to the audience? the breaking of the fourth wall was better in the first film, the second one has four walls within four walls
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which is like 16 walls. i did laugh out loud at that first joke ryan reynolds does seem to be enjoying himself, but there's a general rule that the more you enjoy yourself when you're making a film, the less the audience enjoys it. too many in—jokes. we never have that here. jeune femme — it won the best film at the cannes film festival? it won the camera d'or, which is for the best debut feature. directed by leonor serraille, a brilliant performance by laetitia dosch. she's a 31—year—old woman whom we first meet beating her head on the door of her apartment, "let me in, let me," she'sjust broken up with her boyfriend whom she was with very long time, a photographer who had a particular idea of her. we see her pinballing around paris, almost homeless, trying to find an identity which fits. she tries on several characters, one pretends to be an art student, one‘s going to be a nanny. at one point she goes for a job interview in an underwear store in which she ludicrously claims to be excessively organised and very tidy. here's a clip. and of course her life is complete chaos.
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i was reading about the fact that the design and the photography and the editing was noteworthy. you can see the editing there. a brilliantly made film. almost an entirely female crew. a fantastic central force in which this character pretends to be all these other characters while trying to find her own identity, the director describes it as a journey from girlhood to womanhood. that clip is very comic, much of it's very dark. i thought it was a brilliant character study. i really understood her world. she has this sort of really crazy nervous energy that can frighten some people away, it can attract and repel at the same time. it had exactly that right balance of comedy and tragedy. it's also a story about mothers and daughters. it's about somebody looking for an identity, trying on identities. there was a film recently called personal shopper, in which the central character tried on clothes, like identities. it reminded me of that. some people have made this comparison and said it's like a quirky thing, like greta gerwig or something. i don't think it is.
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i think it's darker than that. it's a brilliant character study of somebody in extremis, on the verge, somebody trying to find some kind of central position. i really loved it. you should definitely see it, it's a great debut feature. just from that little clip you can feel that energy, almost as if it was going to trip over itself. yes, and that happens all the way through the film. i wish i'd used that phrase. iwill, now, and pass it off as my own. it feels that the film is about to trip over itself. this film review stuff is easy. it's a piece of cake. best out, 2001: a space odyssey. you're not crazy about it? i find it immensely disturbing, which it's supposed to be. it's been reissued ? it's 50 years old, which is scary, because i remember seeing it asa kid. a very young kid. a 70mm cut which they played at cannes. however you've seen it before, it's worth seeing on the big screen. i've only seen it on television,
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and a little old television. you need to see it projected. it's a real big—screen experience. it's an extraordinary piece of work. it's frustrating and strange and mysterious and it's one of those films which you can watch over and over again and every time you see it it looks like something else. it's worth seeing. if you've only seen it on tv you need to on the big screen. best dvd, a fantastic woman. not in english? it won the best foreign language film at the oscars and deservedly so. it's just brilliant. it's basically the story of a transgender woman who's with a partner who dies and finds herself suddenly ousted by the family. again, it's about a search for identity, for a place in the world. i thought it was beautifully done, a fantastic central performance by daniela vega. wonderfully shot, in a way which sometimes looks like a dark and noirish thriller but at other times turns into almost a dance piece, a musical, in the same way
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that the shape of water, the guillermo del toro film, turns into a different film halfway through. i thought it was magic and uplifting and dealt with a difficult subject matter rather brilliantly. and her performance, remarkable. absolutely remarkable. mark, thank you. i enjoyed that, we should do it again. the pleasure was entirely mine. a quick reminder before we go that you can find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online. and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, thanks for watching. goodbye. good evening. if you ask many bright
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green, the weather we had it would be high on their wedding list. —— bride or groom. changes are thought to night into parts of scotland and northern ireland. it's of rain spilling into northern and western areas. still a bit cool to eastern parts of england and south—east east anglia, we could see some missed and fog which will burn back to the coast and a lovely sunny day for most of you. further north, the sunshine a bit hazy. 21 the high around the murray firth. some brighter moments in scotland but occasional rain and is the odd heavy burst with temperatures in the mid teens. a bit wetter in sunday night. one or two showers particularly in
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the south but a lot of dry, sunny and warm weather, too. good night. this is bbc news. our top stories: the kiss that says we're husband and wife: britain's prince harry marries his american fiancee meghan markle. the bride was accompanied by ten bridesmaids and pageboys, in a ceremony watched by millions around the world. all that i am i give to you. all that i am, i give to you. harry and his new wife meghan left windsor castle in a vintage sports carfor their evening reception. in other news, investigators in cuba recover a black box recorder from friday's plane crash that
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