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and nigel nelson, goodbye. 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 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 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 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 as 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 and 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 gyllenhall 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 gyllenhall? 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 nyong'o 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.

it wasn't too bad today across most of the country, temperatures up to 14.5dc in surrey, that was the warm spot. we could see some more sunshine in this part of the country, but this system moving past the north of scotland will bring strong winds, producing stronger spells of rain and high pressure across the low ground as well. some drizzle at time in the south but it will fade away. most of the country will fade away. most of the country will be dry, and with clear spells it will be quite chilly. for sunday, a chilly start, that is one thing for sure. but a lot of sunshine around, especially for the south. the north will have strong winds and showers. but also some strong wind developing between the showers. a few of the showers will push off into northern ireland in northern england throughout the day. showers becoming more scattered, some heavy

with snow on the hills, gale force winds across the north of scotland. showers in northern england and northern ireland, but to the south a lot of sunshine, more than what we had today, and temperatures across the channel islands also reaching 12-14. into the channel islands also reaching iz—ia. into next week, a strong area of high pressure building right across the uk, keeping things fine and settled, and noticed the orange colours pushing in cross the atlantic, meaning temperatures will get milder. largely dry, thanks to high pressure, plus some good spells of sunshine. it could be fairly sunny through next week. a chilly start of the day on monday, lots of sunshine, but more cloud for the north and west of scotland. perhaps the odd shower. dry and light winds, good sunny spells, a bit milder in scotla nd good sunny spells, a bit milder in scotland and northern ireland, highs of 12-13. a scotland and northern ireland, highs of 12—13. a cool start and some mist and fog, but dry and sunny weather in england in one. some fairweather

cloud developing in the afternoon. a frontal system could bring rain and breezes to the far north of scotland. temperatures creeping up, maybe 14 on tuesday. through the middle part of the week, across the south and east, highs of the high teens celsius, with some sunshine. much milder as the week went on, but the nights will continue to be chilly with the chance of some mist and fog.