getting to phone because of whatever reason, it could be quite useful. getting to phone because of whatever reason, it could be quite usefulm a way, it is a very oration of the thing around your neck that you press if you have a fall of something. it sounds very futuristic. it could have some interesting applications. there we are. we have run through from brexit to the police all covered in the papers denied. coming up next on bbc news, the film review. goodbye from all of us. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50, mark, what have

you got for us this week? we are definitely in awards season, so we have a couple of contenders. firstly, green book, which is the story of an unlikely friendship. can you ever forgive me? the memories of a forger. and burning, a breat—taking film from south korea. where do you want to start? green book, first picture, best supporting actor, for mahershala ali, who i think is pretty much tipped to win. peter farrelly with his brother used to make comedies like dumb and dumber, and this is a comedy. it is based on a real life friendship. tony, who needs work, an old school racist, he goes for a job interview and he finds that the job is to be a chauffeur and minder

for an african american pianist. but he needs the work. they are to go down to the segregated south. and they're chalk and cheese. one of them is educated and a brilliant musician, and the other is vulgar and comes from the streets. and yet inevitably, during theirjourney together, they find they have things in common, not least when tony is trying to write letters home to his wife and don starts telling him how you actually should write a letter. here's a clip. dear dolores, d—e—e—r. this is an animal. "as i am writing this letter i'm eating potato chips and i'm starting to get thirsty." you know this is pathetic, right? tell me what you're trying to say. i don't know. you know, i miss her. then say that. but do it in a manner that no one else has ever done it before. something like... put this down. " falling in love with you was the easiest thing i have ever done." "nothing matters to me

but you and every day i'm alive i'm aware of this. i loved you the day i met you. i love you today and i will love you the rest of my life." aw. yeah, so you can see from that, it's quite a good—hearted film, you can see from that. it is nominated at the oscars, so whenever there is an oscar contender, there is controversy. on the one hand, this is not true, they were not friends, it was an employer and employee relationship. there have been complaints that this is a story about racism but seen through the eyes of a white character and he saves the day. there have also been comparisons with driving miss daisy, which won the oscar for best picture.

but that was saved by the performances. in this case, it is the performances that save it. i understand the criticism that it's a soft film, driving miss daisy is a brilliant film, this isjust trivia. but the performances are really winning, so much so that when you are watching the film you think, i am going to park all the things i think that is wrong with it because i like the characters. i think mahershala ali has a good chance of winning. i think viggo mortensen does a good job with his role. you'd be hard pressed not to be charmed by it because its heart is in the right place. yes, it makes a lot of mistakes, it's not ground—breaking, and it is fantastically soft soap... remember it is awards season. how much of the aspects of the chemistry between the two leads applies to your next pick of the releases? that's a good question. melissa mccarthy and richard e grant have been nominated as well. he'll probably lose out

out to mahershali ali, but who knows? this is based on a true story, the story of lee is real, author who could not get published, so she started forging letters from famous literary figures, noel coward and dorothy parker. she found out she got quite good at it. she described herself in the film by saying "i'm a better dorothy parker than dorothy parker." richard e grant is jack hock, the character she fakes the letters for. a lot of people say he is like withnail and i, but that character was needy. in this, he puts up a lot of front because he's got a lot of anxieties. she is fantastic. a couple of reviews have said it is a revelation. it's not a revelation, she was in dramatic theatre for a number of years. she's always had a dramatic underpinning. this was co—writen by nicole,

who was initially going to direct it. this was brought to the screen and a very likeable form. i like the chemistry between them. norepinephrine‘s name comes up a lot in the dialogue in a funny way. and as a huge fan of her, i liked this in much the same way. it is about the characters. —— nora ephron. it is about somebody who finds her own voice by pretending to be the voices of other people and i think it works really well. richard e grant is fantastic. it is a long overdue nomination. the next release, burning, which is not about chemistry and it is entirely different. this is based on a short story by haruki murakami, which i have to say i have not read. a shy young man, his mother has left home and his father was in trouble with the law and he has to turn to the family farm. one day he sees a girl who is outside a stall trying to get

punters to come in and he does not recognise her. what he doesn't realise is she knew him as a child from the village where they both grew up. hard to work out from that what that film is really about. fine. exactly. i have seen the whole film and it's still quite hard. he's smitten but he's mystified. she tells him things that happened to them as children, but he doesn't remember them. then she asks him to look after her cat, which he neverfinds. then she turns up with a playboy boyfriend, who is a gatsby type figure, and he likes to make barns disappear by burning them down and then she disappears. the rest of the film is him trying to figure out whether she has disappeared, as she actually disappeared ? is he involved ? do we get any answers? maybe it's a murder mystery, maybe it's a film about rich and poor and town and country and reality and invention and memory and what you actually remember

and what you think you remember. the film closes on you like this and it becomes so mesmerising. i mean i was completely gripped by it and afterwards, i spoke to a couple of people and said, was that a clue? was that her makeup box in the thing? did you see the cat? what i loved about it if it is one of those films that gets right under your skin. it is absolutely breathtaking. is it a murder mystery, is it a love story, a paranoid thriller? is it all in his mind? at no point does the film decide to sit down and well, here's what is going on. that happened and that happened. it is really brilliantly mystifying, in a way which is completely mesmerising. ijust wanted to go straight back in and watch it again. i think i will watch it again. even on second viewing, it will keep the secrets. you have got to be up for the uncertainty of it. but how wonderful, i loved it.

it's so hard to describe... i'll have no idea what you're talking about, even after seeing it. go and see it to have a proper discussion with you about it. destroyer. i like this. we have another oscars in which the whole of the best director list has not one single female director in a year that had so many great movies directed by women. this film has been sadly overlooked and it needs to find an audience. it's a really, really good, twisted cop thriller. and two sentences on best dvd. disobedience, again it is a story about life, love, religion, betrayal, the universe and everything. wow, that'll do me. ok, well, that is a good collection for this week. thank you so much, mark. thank you. and that is all we have time for. thank you for watching. goodbye.

yet another frost out their for many of us, icy patches to the mark. we've had a few showers during saturday that there's been a lot of sunshine around, it has been a fine day, beautiful day if you brave the cold and headed out. some winter landscapes out there. icy patches where you had a few showers, that is still covering north—west scotland even into the morning, they are clearing from north—east england. be icy and places too but largely clear as the night goes on temperatures will drop even further from where they are at the moment. —— it could bei they are at the moment. —— it could be i see. potentially where you have got some snow, temperatures could be minus single figures. some cloud heading into northern ireland and western scotland, turning things wetter late at night and into the morning. there will be a bit of sleet and snow out and about as well, down to low levels in some

places, i think more especially into western scotland as we go through the morning. again turning things i see, again quite cold ground across northern england as the day moves on. more rain heading the northern ireland going into the evening, south of our rain band in northern england, it will be mainly dry although cloud in use, lasting the longest in east anglia and south—east england. the wind freshens and strengthens sunday night in the monday and blows the wet weather across the uk. for most of his reign, some snow into the pennines, southern upload and into the central mountains north of the central belt in scotland. —— uplands. some wet weather around today. some car behind the front, the snow slowly pulls away from northern scotland. a bit of fine

weather of arms and temperatures are a bit higher, particularly down towards the south—west of england, parts of wales, but they will dip again on monday night under clear skies, another frost coming again on monday night under clear skies, anotherfrost coming in. more weather fronts at the atlantic. it does look quite like an act of wea ker does look quite like an act of weaker weather to come next week but a very different flavour of winter weather. once we get past that's no threat to start the week, particularly for scotland, for many of us they will be spells of rain and wind as you can see, temperatures are heading up and more of us will be getting into double figures. of course, feeling very different than what we have had for the past you weeks. —— few. this is bbc news. our top stories: thousands take to the streets in venezuela as the self—proclaimed president, juan guaido, calls for the biggest mass protest in the country's history. there is a sense here of

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