tv The Film Review BBC News March 3, 2019 11:45pm-12:01am GMT
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i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front turning up the pressure on the president. pages of the papers online a us congressional committee demands on the bbc news website. documents from dozens of people it's all there for you seven days as part of an investigation a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, into whether donald trump obstructed and if you miss the programme any justice. evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, owen bennett, and lynn faulds wood. and from all of us, goodnight. five years on from the disappearance of flight mh370, malaysia's government says it would consider restarting the search for the missing plane. there is no closure until the plane is found, until we exactly know what hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's happened to be a craft and to our loved ones on board. cinema releases is mark kermode. what is in your treasure i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: scientists claim a breakthrough chest this week? in the fight against climate change, we have got fighting with my family, which is a true life story of wrestling. the aftermath, keira knightley in the post—war drama, and what they had,
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a tale of memories lost. so, fighting with my family, this is the tale of a young woman, following her dream of becoming a professional wrestler. this is stephen merchant, director and writer. absolutely. are you a big wrestling fan? massive. really? you tune in regularly to the wrestling? no. if you grew up in the 70s, it was a big thing. this is a true story about a family in norwich, mother, son, father, daughter, they all wrestle, that is what they do. it has made them slightly outsiders, but they all have one shared dream, which is getting the opportunity to go to wwe, which is the american wrestling. in america, it is a huge big business. so they dream of getting the call from wwe, and then it comes in. here is a clip.
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hello? can i put you on speaker? yeah, hang on. who is it? i don't know. go ahead. i am calling from wwe. we were very impressed by your tape. we would like both of you to come down to the 02 in london and try out for us. hello? they'd be very happy to accept. good, and we already have a britney. sojust think of an alternative name. yeah, sure, 0k. thank you so much! yeah, thank you very much, sir. i told you! it was a given. sorry, what is the wwe?
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nick frost as the dad, and florence pugh, as the netflix original, daughter saraya and then changes to paige. it is basically the story of what happens when she goes to america and, to some extent, gets to fulfil her dream, but is also separated from herfamily. the title is fighting with my family. it is inspired by channel 4 documentary, that the rock, who is the executive producer, he saw this documentary, and he comes from a wrestling family, and he was very taken with it, and he thought, we must make a feature film, and he previously worked with stephen merchant on a film called tooth fairy, which i am sure you have not seen, because it is not a classic. it was some years ago. i think he has done a really good job. i know nothing about wrestling, other than what i used to watch, but it has got real heart. it is about the family,
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it is very funny when it needs to be, but it is also moving, the rivalry between the brother and sister, they both want to succeed, and it is about how close—knit they are, and it is an underdog story. it is about outsiders, people who wrestle all their life, and are looked on as slightly strange to suddenly achieve this... and i thought it was really terrifically well done. and florence pugh, who is so great in lady macbeth, is really, really good in this. world of sport. i remember that. world of sport. that's right! we are showing our age. the aftermath, this is keira knightley, and alexander ska rsgard — who is everywhere at the moment. i think that's how they say it in sweden. yes, it sounds wrong when i said it. immediately after the war, keira knightley is rachael morgan, who is the wife of a british forces officer who is in germany to help
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with the rebuilding and reconstruction, and they have been put in a house that used to be owned by a german family, who have lost members of their family, and she is there with her husband, her husband is away all the time, and alexander ska rsgard is the person in the attic who is very handsome and hunky, and he spends time sitting with keira knightley while they play piano together. what could possibly happen? what could possibly go wrong? the thing is, these are good performers, it is directed by the same guy who did testament of youth. so he has a good pedigree. it is a handsome film, if you have seen the posters, it is a good production, but it does lack spark. it felt wooden and clunky. you could see exactly where it was going, with the drama, and it's not like every drama has to surprise you, but you need to feel passionately involved in characters, you need to believe in them, and at no point did i think i was watching anything other than a group of talented actors acting. wooden because of the acting or wooden because of the script?
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i suspect, the script. sometimes, films like this don't catch a fire, and this just doesn't. it is very strange, but it felt very disconnected. 0k, number three is what they had. this is an american drama, a woman returning home to help herfather and brother decide how to care for the ailing mother. yes. blythe danner is suffering alzheimer's. and the husband will not put at into a home. hilary swank and michael shannon are the two siblings. hilary swank lives a long way away. the brother is there. he has had to deal with it. and he says, she has to go into a home, she is out walking
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the streets in the snow, but the father will have none of it at all. here is a clip. it looks like it could be a really... you are not putting your mother in a home. she spent 30 years working on them, they are horrible. dad, it is not a nursing home. it is a neighbourhood. what? reminisce neighbourhood. it's great. they get mass twice a week, restaurant, classes, a jacuzzi. a jacuzzi? your mother can't swim, do you want to drown her? you can't drown in one of those. she is terrified of water. she used to be terrified of auckland and now showers walking down there in her nightingale. there is a two—bedroom right next door, and assisted living for you. are you out your mind? betty feels the same way, right? how the hell do you know what she feels? how do you know? you can see from that,
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terrific committed performances. if you have any first—hand experience of people with alzheimer's you will know that there are moments of this that really strike true. the problem is, it feels rather stagey. it doesn't feel particularly cinematic. i almost felt like i was watching a stage play, if i was in a theatre, i would be completely engrossed. but it does not feel like a particularly cinematic piece of cinema. that said, it is done with conviction, and it is sensitive to its subject matter, and when it gets things right, it is really good, but it did have that kind of theatrical construction that everybody gets their moment when they step forward and do the speech, that everybody gets their own issues that they have to do result. it is very mapped out, and very schematic, and it feels rather theatrical. it does however have more spark than the aftermath. it's not particular cinematic. those are great actors, with very committed performances. best out at the moment.
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capernaum. which i think is great. it was nominated for the best foreign—language film no women nominated in the best director category. it is the story about the tribulations of a street kid, who end up taking his parents to sue them, and i think the thing about it being directed by somebody who is an actor, i think they understand how to get the best with their cast whether it is the adult or the kid performer. stephen spielberg once said, if you are working with children, they don't act, theyjust be, you have to convince them that the situation is as real as possible. it is very moving, and i am yet to meet anybody who has seen it and has not found it very moving. i thought it was very good. also, green book, which won best film.
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yes, interesting, that it's almost like driving miss daisy won again. it is not the best film of the year by one million miles. it is fine. it has two great performers. clearly the best film of the year was leave no trace, which was nominated for no 0scars. we both loved it. i must say, i enjoyed green book. it's fun, it's all right, but it's not the oscar for the most all right film of the year. best dvd? halloween. everybody thought the franchise was finished, but it is back. this time, with something like post—traumatic stress disorder, and i never thought it would breathe life into the trilogy, i made a documentary about it 20 years ago, saying it had all run its course and i thought it was good. it was scary and creepy and fun. which is the sort of film you like, because you love your horror!
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thank you so much for watching. goodbye from both of us. hello. it was a stormy end to the weekend and storm freya is still with us. so for the next few hours, we will continue to see some very lively gus is of wind, which could fell trees, and indeed not only have we had heavy rain but snow as well. —— gusts of wind. the cold air is digging in, you can see behind this storm system it is turning that rain to snow. still a few more hours of nasty weather out and about. there are met office warnings on the website. those strong, gusty winds with us in southern areas, and the rain as well. the cold air is turning the rain to snow over the hills in particular, but once it does clear it is chilly outside.
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frost around the northern ireland scotla nd frost around the northern ireland scotland and northern england. 0therwise quite a promising start to oui’ 0therwise quite a promising start to our monday. plenty of sunshine. there will be showers. quite a lot of showers, right from early on in across the northern hours. they will ta ke across the northern hours. they will take a long time to get going across mainland scotland, but they will come along, as they will for northern ireland. a decent start to the day but you can see them gathering. just the hint we will see something wintry over the hills as they push their way along those fairly brisk winds eastwards. certainly some hail and thunder. they do not ease away as we go through monday night into tuesday. there could be further. so, at quite low levels, to 300 feet, or metres, rather. it will be chilly, two or three degrees. a cold start to our tuesday morning. tuesday looks like they are driven by low pressure and therefore showers, but you may have noticed low pressure as well, looming large towards the south. so, yes, a spell of rain across
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potentially parts of scotland, snow over the hills, perhaps in northern england as well. elsewhere, sunshine and showers. is beginning to ease ahead of this next low pressure system. it looks dominant, that will get across iberia and into the western side of europe, pushing further north. rain and strong winds and again the risk of snow. it comes into that cold air. again, you can see it is indicative of some fairly heavy falls of snow, over the hills in particular, with lots of showers following in the mile there behind. we will have quite an interesting day on wednesday. it certainly looks like the wettest and windiest day of the week, of course, following storm freya which we begin this week on and which could give is hazardous travel conditions. the warnings are on the website.
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