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eight this evening. we will have the build—up and team news on sportsday at 6:30pm. now on bbc news, 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. so mark, what do we have this week? we have the white crow, which is a biopic about rudolf nureyev. we have us, the new film byjordan hill, who may get out. and minding the gap, a skateboarding movie that is not really about skateboarding. the white crow — i'm quite intrigued, it
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sounds good. an interesting story directed by ralph fiennes, who also has a role in the film, and it is about rudolf nureyev‘s defection to the west. the film opens with ralph fiennes's character defecting. he is asked what he knows and what happened. he says enigmatically that he had an explosion of character, a great phrase. the film then retraces itself and we see the progress of this kid from a fairly impoverished background who makes his way up the tree and comes to dance in paris, sees paris, falls in love with it, to some extent is seduced by it, which the russian authorities are not happy with at all. everything is ok, don't worry. stay with me. they are trying to kidnap
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me. keep it cool. if this is a punishment. it is not a punishment. if this is because rudy spent time hanging out with me and my friends, cani hanging out with me and my friends, can i say, never hanging out with me and my friends, can i say, never once hanging out with me and my friends, can i say, never once did he say a single word against his government or the country. keep it under control. it's ok. or leg if inco is the star, and i gather ralph fiennes scoured the former soviet union looking for someone to play him. he needed someone who could dance, and if you got a body double it would double the budget and the time to make the film. as you can see from the clip, i think he is very charismatic on camera. he is a good actor and gives you the sense of on the one hand everything that is a track at —— attractive about
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nu reyev‘s track at —— attractive about nureyev‘s character, and also everything that is dangerous about it. the film is about east and west, control and rebellion. at the centre of it is ballet, something which requires really strict discipline, something the russians are strong on. but he is a rebellious spirit, and he is told at one point, you are not technically very good, in some ways quite clumsy, but your spirit is perfect, and that is really what the film is about. hats off to ralph fiennes for not only getting his head around the complexities of bally but russian. the characters when they are in russia speak russian. they do not do that thing of speaking russian english with a cod accent. i do think it was a really smart decision to get somebody who can convince you he is a dancer. you watch the ballet sequences and they are every bit as much part of the narrative and why his character does what he does as all the dialogue and the rest of it.
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i thought it was interesting, and i am someone i thought it was interesting, and i am someone who knows nothing about ballet. i doubt that is true! the next is from jordan peel, who did get out. that was great. it was very much a film about the way in which liberal america was still deeply racist. this is slightly more broad and slightly harder to pin down, but i like that about it. it is essentially a family who go for a holiday by santa cruz, and outside their house turns up another family of doppelgangers. in the title there isa pun. of doppelgangers. in the title there is a pun. the film is called us, but as is us. there is a line that brings through it, we are americans. you can watch the film and think maybe it is about the way in which eve ryo ne maybe it is about the way in which everyone has a shadow side, like a jekyu everyone has a shadow side, like a jekyll and hyde thing, or maybe you can see it as a parable about the way that affluent societies have a parasitic relationship with the
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hidden underclass. all you canjust see it as a jack finney bodysnatchers— style horror tale thatis bodysnatchers— style horror tale that is really well done. the clever thing is, remember all the stuff of the golden globes about get out being a comedy? some said it should being a comedy? some said it should bea being a comedy? some said it should be a documentary. in this, the scary bits are properly scary, the funny bits are properly scary, the funny bits are properly funny, and all the way through, it is thought—provoking and really well textured. it is the kind of film you would come out afterwards and go for a coffee with afterwards and go for a coffee with a friend and go, what was it about? what was actually happening? it's not straightforward, not simple, but it's really crowd pleasing, and i think it will do really well. he has a terrifically good director. did you find get out scary? more intriguing than scary. i watched it twice because it made sense more the second time. you like the same is true of us. once you have seen at the first time round, go back and watch it, there are loads of clever
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things. the bits that are meant to be scary are properly scary. not gory, but there is violence in it. just really well—placed. gory, but there is violence in it. just really well-placed. a bit scarier than get out. then a documentary about skateboarders that is not a documentary about skateboarders. it started with him filming his friends on him skateboarding when he was a teenager, and he was originally trying to make a film that, in his own words, shows them having the best time of their lives. but then, as they grew up, the film becomes about a crisis in masculinity and what is actually happening to his friends as they go from childhood to manhood, and they all start to discover that their love of skateboarding was a way of escaping from things in their background, in their past. we start to see evidence of domestic violence, of problems of poverty, of repeating the sins of the parents being passed down to the children. in the brilliant thing
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about it is, it does all this in a way that never feels like it is anything more than an intimate look at friends who had found something in skateboarding. here is a clip. do it. hey, this the skateboard? yeah. here, he held on a lot. he was really kind of strict on it. you know, his father was a carpenter, and he wanted kier to do that. he couldn't get the other boys to follow in his footsteps, but kier didn't like it. sometimes, i'd know that i had to work with him, so i
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would sneak out my window, put my boat out first and just climb out. when i got home, i got disciplined. it was an escape for a while. i thought it was moving and engrossing, partly because it is very intimate. also because the skateboarding is a thing that young men use to escape, and film—making is an escape, going through demons from the past. it goes through things like richard linklater‘s boyhood. it really gets under the skin of these young men as they now are wrestling with the fact that they still have things in their past that they haven't dealt with. i thought it was really terrific, and i went thought it was really terrific, and iwent in thought it was really terrific, and i went in knowing nothing about it other than it was about skateboarders. i know a little bit about it because i used to skateboard as a kid.|j
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about it because i used to skateboard as a kid. i imagine you we re skateboard as a kid. i imagine you were pretty good. no, i used to fall offa were pretty good. no, i used to fall off a lot, but it was the thing to do. for people not watching the bbc news channel this weekend, what is the best thing out? kindergarten teacher, the maggie gill in whole film, you have to see it. it is not playing in a lot of theatres. it is about a teacher who becomes obsessed that one of her children is the new mozart. the film is really about, is the kid really that or is it all the projection of the teacher? i think it is brilliant and really smart. projection of the teacher? i think it is brilliant and really smartlj do want to see that one. it is great. best dvd is something i think you love, and i like, but not as much as you. i think that weirdos did not get the attention it deserved. i thought this was great, a brilliant ensemble cast headed up
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by viola davis. what did you not like? what might i didn't think it developed all the women's characters toa developed all the women's characters to a full extent. i was going to say it isa to a full extent. i was going to say it is a fair criticism. it is enjoyable. i think it is more, it is a fair criticism. it is enjoyable. ithink it is more, i think it is really profound. from a film—making point of view, i think it isa film—making point of view, i think it is a brilliant mate —— mike brilliantly made film. it shows you a group of characters you think you understand, and then you realise that you actually don't know them. it is one of those films in which action is character. people don't explain what they are doing. they do it, and that explains what they are doing. i'm going to go and see it again. on dvd. thank you, mark, as ever. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello, a change to something fresher
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as we move into the weekend. we draw in coolerair as we move into the weekend. we draw in cooler airfrom the as we move into the weekend. we draw in cooler air from the north and west. you can see on the satellite, a cold front pushing its way south and east. that is the cloud here. shower clouds starting to feed in behind it, and more in the way of sunshine. it will feel cooler, that cold front working its way south and east through the rest of today and tonight. behind it, we are dragging in this cooler air mass. you can see by the blue colour here on the map. this evening and overnight, that cold front sinks south and east, not a great deal of rain on it. perhaps some drizzle for south—western parts of wales and england. elsewhere, clear spells, and under clear skies, temperatures will fall away for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, into the low single figures. you could wake up to a touch of frost. showers moving in, and they could fall over the high ground of scotland as snow. saturday morning, the cold front fairly close
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to southern coastal areas, so here, it won't be quite as chilly to start the day, but there will be more in the day, but there will be more in the way of cloud. that cloud could be thick enough for drizzle first thing. away from that, plenty of good spells of sunshine. the sunshine is hazy at times across england and wales, a few scattered in blustery showers. some showers could be blustery. temperatures at a maximum of 13 celsius, cooler than they have been over the past few days. as we move into saturday night, that cold front finally clears its way a little further south. we could see patchy rain before it does. we have this next feature moving into the north, bringing showery outbreaks of rain. the temperature is cooler, though. we could wake up to a touch of frost further north. again, scotland, northern ireland, northern england. sunday, a chilly start to the day with a bit of mist and fog further southin with a bit of mist and fog further
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south in england and wales, which will lift, and then we are looking ata dry will lift, and then we are looking at a dry and bright day with plenty of sunshine. the sunshine will be brighter across england and wales, not hazy. no mid to upper level cloud. there will be further showers pushing in again to the north and west. fairly windy with those. temperatures similar to what we see on saturday. this weekend, it turns cooler. it comes with chilly nights and frosty starts. plenty of dry weather and sunshine, though there are some showers to be had in the north and west.
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