you wrote a piece in the guardian where you said, rather than going home about writing it, she immersed yourself. she stayed there. i'm quite interested to know why she felt she wanted to write about the troubles and her take on that part of her history. i think that, first and foremost, you need to realise that when you listen to that film and also when you look at a really excellent ted talk that she did, is that she saw herself as a survivor and she talks about when she was a child, her catholic religion taught that it was unacceptable to be gay. and she talked about how she felt the right thing for her to do was to kill herself. so she saw herself as having survived that and she talks very poignantly about how, you know, it gets better, it gets better for those of us who survive long enough for it to get better and, she wrote that not knowing of course that her own life is not that her own life was not going to be for much longer. so she was keenly aware that she survived and wanted to help other people to survive, she was a child of the cease—fire,

she referred to herself as a cease—fire baby. she was only eight when the good friday agreement was signed in 1998. so she hadn't experienced the conflict but like many of her generation who were sensitive, she was very aware of the fact that the troubles had a legacy which was a very dark shadow over her generation and she wrote for example about how a lot of young people her age were killing themselves and she was very concerned about that. she was very concerned to be a force for good and in that sense, she was a campaigning journalist who would work for other people who are doing creative, interesting, forward—looking things in that sense she was the absolute antithesis of those who killed her who are only looking backwards and were never, ever be and will never, ever be reconciled to peace. now on bbc news it's 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 jason solomons. i'm used to seeing you in a black tie and on the red carpet. if i had known, i would've dressed up. so jason, what do we have this week? we have great films with great actors and actresses of awards standing. the first film is about a lost handbag leading to a nightmare. chloe grace moretz and isabelle huppert star in greta. we are off to italy, the sun—drenched beaches in palo sorrentino‘s loro. and red joan, judi dench opens the door on her past and a wartime secret

that she was accused of treason. she's a national treasure! let's start with greta it sounds cartoonish, but critics like it? it's almost not cartoonish enough for me. i really liked it, it's called greta and directed by neiljordan, who's been doing these dark—tinged fairy tales. he did in the company of wolves, the crying games, and in dreams. his stories always come with this little fairy element, like angela carter in the dark underbelly of fairy tales. this one is called greta, like "hansel and gretel". it's a tale of breadcrumbs left in the city that brings chloe grace moritz to isabelle huppert‘s little gingerbread house in new york. you don't see houses like this in new york. chloe grace moritz returns this handbag to isabelle huppert,

who plays a batty old french lady who's lost her husband and is a bit sad. they strike up an unlikely friendship which leads to a rather stalker—ish bit of behaviour from isabelle huppert. like fatal attraction, she tracks down all through the city, and even turns up at the restaurant where chloe grace moritz is working. may i? hmm... a bit like you — promises a lot, then disappoints. 0k. i deserve better! oh my god, i'm so sorry. you can't do this to me — to us. are you a child? no, you're the child. you need someone to love. you need a mother to hold you. you love someone, and you're afraid to love. don't you dare talk to me about my mother! darling, you must learn, she had to die. she had to die for me! are you out of your mind? you just can't accept it! she's gone, frances!

just accept it! leave me alone! she's gone, leave me alone! leave me alone! she's so elegant but scary! i know, she's like that in real life. you think she'll go at any moment. she's done brilliant films with michael haneke, like elle with paul verhoeven, which won he ran oscar nomination a few years ago. that is what we are picking up on here. i love how in the clip, all the new york diners decide it's hard to get a reservation, so they aren't moving, even if there is a madwoman going on. as you can see, it's got that delirious nature to it, and i mention fatal attraction or single white female, those psychological thrillers from the ‘80s and ‘90s. that is whatjordan is mining here. they even go shopping for a rescue dog, which brings

in the big bad wolf. there's a lot of clever stuff here, but it's also just a lot of fun. it's one of those films that's a bit silly and you think, "why didn't she google her"? she would know. that spoils it. exactly, it's old —fashioned. i like the style of it, shot by seamus mcgarvey. it's like a hitchcock film. it's unhinged, which you need. i'm interested. now loro, about silvio berlusconi. lots of colour to be looked at in his life? for those who don't know, silvio berlusconi was the prime minister of italy and engulfed in scandal. but you could never get rid of him, he was coated in teflon. that wasn't a tan, it was feflon. that wasn't a tan, it was teflon. he's played in this film brilliantly by the great italian actor toni servillo, who is the muse of palo sorrentino, the director of the film. we are set in the palaces of sardinia, where everyone is trying to get berlusconi's attention.

it is a film that has a lot of women dancing around and bikini, dancing around in bikinis, lots of parties, and berlusconi was famous for inviting heads of state to these parties. you remember them? i reported on them a few times. it would be fun to be invited, except what this film does is make you realise that it's fun to start with, but after the fifth or sixth one, the excess is way too much. how appealing will this be to the female audience? given that we've gone through this time's up, #metoo moment... it's like those things never happen in this movie. you will be disgusted by much of it, but that's the idea. is it disgusting enough, does it get enough jabs at berlusconi? not really, but there are some brilliant touches of surrealism. red joan with judi dench? no dancing girls in this one. judi dench plays a woman — this is based on the real—life tale of melita norwood, known as the "granny spy."

suddenly the police show up at her home and arrest her for wartime behaviour. she says she's done nothing wrong, then we flash back to cambridge in the 1930s where she was a young woman who came under the charm of a handsome and charismatic communist played by tom hughes. here's a clip. it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness... it was the epoch of belief. it was the epoch of incredulity. it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. a tale of two cities, book one, recalled to life. that's communism. that's dickens.

i'd have thought far too english for you. so what made you want to read physics? the clever answer is that when in 1932, they discovered the neutron, and the whole world changed. and i wanted to be a part of that. but the reality is tadpoles. does it work? the flashing back and forth takes the drama out of both segments, unfortunately. judi dench is always brilliant, but this is not the best role i've seen her do. there's not enough of her, you want to see how this affects this woman who is suddenly confronted by her past. here she is living happily in a suburb, and suddenly, her past catches up with her. her family knows nothing about it — her son is the barrister who ends up defending her, with no clue about what his mum has been up to. then it all gets a bit muddled, flashing backwards

and forwards between the two. they don't quite marry the two segments for me. it reminded me of the imitation game, with benedict cumberbatch and keira knightley. that's what we do with british period films, and unfortunately it is a pale imitation of that. best out, you've chosen mid90s? it's nostalgic for those who have lived through it? berlusconi is enough mid—90s for anyone, but we are talking about a young kid growing up on the streets of la in the 19905 who falls amongst a group of skateboarders. it is very much a coming—of—age tale, which i love, especially when it is set to mid—90s hip—hop. this is directed byjonah hill, a rather portly actor who's worked with scorsese and in superbad. the wolf of wall street? exactly. there's lots of scorsese in this movie. it's summer—y with great beats — "dope beats," i would say. would you really? are we allowed to use language like that? who is this appealing to — is it for people who were around in the ‘905?

it's for anyone who's come of age, which is most of us, mainly boys, but your first experiences with sex and alcohol, your mum telling you off, the embarrassment of your mum finding you when you're trying to be cool. it captures that moment of youth and becoming into experience, and he does it really well. quite well, lots of banter and growing up to be done on screen. and as it's his first film as a director, he's growing up as a film—maker before our very eyes. best streaming, something called guava island? you say that as if you don't know what that means. streaming is notjust for hay fever sufferers, you know? it's where we find a lot of stuff these days. i thought i would pick this little film dropped on amazon prime starring donald glover, who goes by childish gambino for his music, and rihanna, who is also a singer. guava island is set on the caribbean and a story that reminded me me of 19505 palm d'or winner black orpheus, directed by marcel camus.

all pretensions aside, it is realistic with great music, about a carnival and workers under the shackles of a dictator on this island. but is it more than just a feature—length music video? much more, although it is only 55 minutes, so it finds itself between a rock and a hard place. but you can just release these things on streaming, it doesn't have to get you in cinemas. but i found it colourful and well—acted with very fine set pieces of the dancing. this naive inquisitor thing i do is just an act to make you look really good. i know you know everything. thank you very much jason. that's it for this week, thank you for watching and goodbye. good evening. we have seen plenty of sunshine across the board to the day today that is helped to give our temperatures and extra boost in fact all four nations have recorded their

highest temperatures of the year so far. and there's more warmth the comments he had into the weekend, i say most of us that we have a weather front approaching from the atla ntic weather front approaching from the atlantic producing more cloud in northern ireland and western fringes of scotla nd northern ireland and western fringes of scotland overnight and i will lingerfor much of of scotland overnight and i will linger for much of the weekend. elsewhere it but the clear skies, we may see the return of the low cloud mist and fog in places like lincolnshire in yorkshire, temperature should not drop too far. although there will be one or two cool spots. early morning mist and fog will clear quite quickly, though there will still be cloud draped over northern ireland and up at the westi n over northern ireland and up at the westin scotland, quite breezy as well for the northern isles, but lengthy spells of sunshine and that he'd really breathing, south of the uk but we could see highs of 25 celsius.

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