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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 peel, who made get out. and minding the gap, a skateboarding movie that is not really about skateboarding. the white crow — i'm quite intrigued, it 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 being asked what he knows and why did this happen? he says enigmatically he wasn't political, it was all to do with dance.

he says he had an explosion of character, which is 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. here is a clip. everything is ok, don't worry. don't worry. stay with me. stay. they are trying to kidnap me. keep it calm, please. if this is a punishment... it is not a punishment. can ijust say, if this is because rudy spent time hanging out with me and my friends, can i say, never did rudy say one word against his country, against his government, or against the company. never. not one single word, ever. 0k. keep it under control.

0k. it's ok. oleg ivenko 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, because if you got a body double, it would double the the time of the film and the budget of the film. so he needed someone who could dance. 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 attractive about nureyev‘s character, and also everything that is dangerous about it. what the film is about east and west, control and rebellion. at the centre of it is ballet, something of course is 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 you are quite clumsy, but your spirit is perfect,

and that is really what the film is about. i mean, hats off to ralph fiennes for not only getting his head around the complexities of ballet, but russian... the characters when they are in russia speak russian. they do not do that thing about speaking russian english with a bit of cod russian accent. and although it is a fairly well known story, watching the film, you realise how much you didn't know about it. 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 his character does, as all the dialogue and the rest of it. 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. which i absolutely loved, that was stunning. get out was great. and the thing with get out was it was very much in the style of stepford wives, 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 up by santa cruz, and outside their house turns up another family of doppelgangers. and the title is a pun. the film is called us, but as is us. there is a line that rings through it, somebody says "we are americans." and you can watch the film and think maybe it is about the way in which 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 hidden underclass. or you can just see it as a jack finney bodysnatchers—style horror tale that is really well done. the clever thing about it is, remember all the stuff of the golden globes about get out being a comedy? somebody said it should be a documentary. in the case of this,

the scary 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 a friend and go, what was it about? what was actually happening? what was the message? it's not straightforward, not simple, but it's really crowd pleasing, and i think it will do really well. he's a terrifically good director. did you find get out scary? more so intriguing, rather than scary. i watched it twice because it made sense more the second time. the same is true of us. once you have seen it the first time round, go back and watch it, there are loads of clever things. the bits that are meant to be scary are properly scary. not in a gory, but there is some violence in it. but it's just really well—paced. a bit scarier than get out? yes. 0k, minding the gap you've told us a documentary about skateboarders that is not a documentary about skateboarders. no. it started with him filming his

friends onand him skateboarding when he was a teenager, and he was originally trying to make a film that, in their 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. and the brilliant thing 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. what happened? do it. hey, this the skateboard? yeah.

here, he held in a lot. and his dad, he was really kind of strict on him. 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. hurry! do it! sometimes, i'd know that i had to work with him, so i would sneak out my window, put my board 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 in the same way that the skateboarding is a thing that young men use to escape, obviously the film—making is a therapy for the film—maker who goes back to confront his own demons and things in his own past. and it shifts very gently from being something that is like richard linklater‘s boyhood or maybe that documentary dogtown and z boys, into something which 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 in knowing nothing about it other than it was about skateboards. i know a little bit about skateboarding because i used to skateboard as a kid. i imagine you were pretty good actually. no, i used to fall off a lot, but it was the thing to do. for those not watching the bbc news channel this weekend, what is the best thing out at the moment? last week i'm going to do this, i'm only ever allowed two. kindergarten teacher, the maggie gylanhall film, you have to seek it out because it is not playing in a lot of theatres. but it is a story about a teacher who becomes obsessed that one of her pupils is the new mozart.

the film is really about, is the kid actually a brilliant poet or is it all the projection of the teacher, who is played by maggie gylanhall? i think it is brilliant and really smart. i do want to see that one. it is great. best dvd is something that i know you loved, and i kind of liked, but not as much as you. i was amazed that widows did not get more attention from the awards. it was based on a tv series, directed by steve mcqueen, who cast lupita nyongo in 12 years a slave, and she's the lead in us. i thought this was great, a brilliant ensemble cast headed up by viola davis. what did you not like? i didn't like that it didn't develop all the women's characters, i did not feel to a full extent. i was going to say it is a fair criticism. it is enjoyable. i think it is more than enjoyable, i think it is really profound. from a film—making point of view, i think it is a brilliantly made film.

profound how? 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. maybe i'll go and see it again on dvd. thank you, mark, as ever. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello, on the weather front it is relatively quiet at the moment at least across most of the uk. showers and blustery wind continuing in scotla nd and blustery wind continuing in scotland for the time being and for a time into tomorrow as well but on the whole this weekend a lot of dry weather around. however very big and far north atlantic there in the

norwegian sea and that is sending strong winds into scotland and the northern aisles and you can see the blues here. you can see the tem ptress blues here. you can see the temptress dropping across scotland and northern england rapidly by the night and by the end there will be a touch of frost in places but not in the south here and you see the life cloud sweat, extracting from across the continent and it is a cold front so the continent and it is a cold front so cloudy skies in the south and not quite so cold, a decrease in mind and stop at the cold front stretches all the way down towards the southwest and across the uk into scandinavia on sunday. it is hugging the south course dominant coast of saturday. cornwall through death and all the way to the east southeast of the country and pretty cloudy with a few spots of light rain. the isle of wight and tunbridge wells coming northwards, that weather is fairly

bright and northwestern parts of the uk, some showers there for the western iles and temperature is around nine, 13 and the south and saturday night on the weather front is fairly quiet again. it will be a chilly night into sunday and you see pockets of frost developing there. city centre is between one or four degrees. and outside, around —1 or two. se turbulence for the day here but further south the weather is looking all right and quite sunny when i think on the south coast. then into the next week that's high pressure starts to anchor itself across the uk and when we see a anger it means once it has established itself and is not moving anywhere so it is going to drive our weather for quite anywhere so it is going to drive our weatherfor quite some anywhere so it is going to drive our weather for quite some time and that means that next week with a high pressure in charge, it is looking dry, quite a bit of sunshine and on

the weather front it is looking a breeze.