hello and a very warm welcome to the film review. taking us through this week's releases is mark. hello. hi. mixed bag this week. we have tell it to the bees, which is a new british drama. we have the lion king. is it live—action or animation? and varda by agnes — a film maker looks back on her life and career. let's start with tell it to the bees, which is adapted from a book by fiona shaw which i confess i have not read. i know you have seen the film... i have not read the novel either, actually. we are both working on just the basis of the film. holliday grainger is lydia, who is raising her son on her own in rural scotland. she finds herself homeless, and this new doctor — actually, returning doctor, jean, played by anna paquin — offers her a housekeeper because she doesn't have anywhere

else to live. so she moves in, and the two women become very friendly. this kind of story is seen through the eyes of the young son. in the beginning, there is a voiceover of what did he see, what didn't he see? he becomes particularly fascinated by the fact, in the garden there is a hive of bees, and he's really interested in the way in which the bees live together in their society, and he is told by anna paquin‘s character, you tell your secret to the bees, which i think is where the title comes from. the bees sort of seem to serve a larger role which is both mirroring and, in some cases, actually moving on the story. here's a clip. oi, oi! get off! oh, it's on me! get it off me! stay still.

no. we mustn't. what did you do to the bees? no, nothing, i, erm... so... and this is the ‘505. it's a period drama but i do think it still has some relevance, because it talks about some pretty tough subjects. it talks about homophobia, it talks about racism, it talks about domestic abuse. it does all of those things quite frankly. it is sort of upfront about them. there are a couple of scenes in the film that did make me wince because they are kind of tough. my problem is this. i think that it's very well—intentioned, and i think it's solidly played. i'm not entirely sure that, on the screen, the bee metaphor works,

because up to a point, there is this idea of the discussion, you're telling your secrets to the bees, the hive mind. it's fine. there are moments, however, in which the bees to start to play an active part in the narrative, in which i did think this is falling apart... it was a bit peculiar, that point, wasn't it? the bee element was quite lovely with the little boy at the beginning, and then towards the end, you think, not sure where this is going! the more it was kind of happening in the background, as a counterpoint to the main story, the better it worked. when it actually became part of the story, it was less successful. that said, i think its heart is in the right place, and i think it is at least striving to tell a story in an adventurous way. i would rather watch something try to do something and fail then just simply play it safe. i think some of the performances are not quite as great as they perhaps ought to be, i think that's partly due with actors wrestling with accents which are not their own. yes, i agree. i kind of wanted to be... i wanted to be better! but i think there are still things,

and there are individual moments in it which i think, oh, they work really well. individual moments of real electricity and spark, and kate dickie‘s in it, and i love kate dickie in absolutely everything. she is fantastic. she is flinty in this for them. very, very stern. she is aggressive and we don't mess with her. no, you don't. the lion king. why? why is it being remade? explain. well, i think the most obvious reason, live—action disney remakes are making a tonne of money. they are doing really well. in the case of this, this is kind of billed as live—action. it is not live—action. it is animated. everything you're seeing on the screen is animation. the whole thing is done in a virtual reality environment in which the cameras are moving around in virtual reality but it is all completely computer—generated. it's photorealist animation. and what this does is, you can create a photoreal version of an antelope or a lion, or a lion cub. the only thing is, they look like real animals but they are talking and singing,

and i have a slight conceptual problem with this. if you see a cartoon talking and singing, it is fine because you understand. if you see the stage production of the lion king, your mind is filling some of the gaps. you cannot fault it technically. it is breathtaking. the environment is the best sort of realised environment on screen you can possibly imagine, but it is... it's like a david attenborough documentary, and they're all singing. it's just weird! i am personally a great fan of old, traditional animation. i never watched an old animated film and thought, i wish it was more real. this is something very new and it is kind of ground—breaking. this is real cutting edge stuff, and it's made byjon favreau, who made jungle book, which did have a human character. it is very strange. i am not entirely convinced by it. our third choice this week. people might think they would

only like if they're obsessed with cinema! i don't know anyone like that! this is varda by agnes. it's agnes varda's final film, looking at her life, her extraordinary career. she's talking sometimes to an audience, sometimes she's talking to the camera, and so we get clips from her films. we get encounters of people who remember working with her, and how tough she was. when you see the film, what comes across as her generosity of spirit, her enthusiasm forfilm, her enthusiasm for the medium and also her great love of beaches. and she says this thing about "a beach is the opposite of a wall," which is a phrase which wins me over. here's a clip.

it's so enchanting, and i did not actually expect to be enchanted, but there's something really... did you think it was going to be hard work and sort of...? i thought you would have to be really, super knowledgeable about her work to get some thing out of it, and you don't have to, because i am not. and yet, she is delightful to listen to. it shows you just as much

as you need of the clips to make you think, i want to see that film — particularly the robert de niro film. she said, it's so great i got robert de niro. the film flopped, but it doesn't matter — i got robert de niro for a day! she says this thing about all film—making comes down to three things, and it's inspiration, creation and then sharing. inspiration is where the film comes from, creation‘s how you make it and sharing is showing it to the audience. and i love the fact she loves cinema, but she loves the audience engaging with the cinema. she does these artworks, installations — did, her final film — and what you get from this is a portion of somebody, her enthusiasm, her intelligence, her empathy. i thought the film was great fun. there's many laughs in it. it's really funny and playful and witty. i thought it was really, really charming. it is an absolute delight. best out this week? i really, really love only you, which is the debut feature by harry wootliff. i think she has done a greatjob of telling this story. about a relationship between two people, a slightly younger man, a slightly older woman. the woman thinks that

their relationship is going to be unbalanced, out of sync, but he is the one who thinks, i think we should start a family. it is about what happens when something which is an idea turns into a demand. i think it is brilliant. i love the performances. fantastic, yes. it feels so intimate! and so honest! i absolutely believed in the characters! you loved it, too, right? yes. not quite as much as you, and we don't have time to explain why, but i thought the performances were fantastic. fabulous, fabulous. fantastic. captain marvel. i've watched it! this will surprise you. captain marvel, i did. i married someone who loves superhero movies. what was their verdict on it? she loved it. i loved it for about two thirds of it and then went, oh, is it still on? it felt a little bit long. when it came out, a lot of people saying, it cannot work, it has not enough blokes in it. and how dare they! and of course, it's been a runaway success. the reason i've chosen it on dvd is,

i want to see it again. in cinema, i thought it was fine. i felt the same thing as you. two—thirds of the way... but i want to see it again because it's been such a runaway hit. i think there's stuff in there that i probably missed first time around. brie larson was good. brie larson is great! i think brie larson is really good, and i think she's got a great sense of humour as well. thank you very much. see you again soon. that is it for this week. see you next time. bye— bye. after a day of sunny spells and pa rental after a day of sunny spells and parental showers and thunderstorms for some of us, things are much quieter now as we head into the rest of the night did this was the picture is the sunset wakefield. clear spells and patchy cloud drifting around overnight. it is looking largely dry out there, perhaps the odd light shower across the far north—west of scotland. wind

is much lighter than it was earlier in the day and the temperature is holding up so not too humid out there tonight. temperatures around 10-14 there tonight. temperatures around io— 11! degrees. you will notice things becoming hotter and more humid overnight over the next few days. you may have had a heat wave on the way and temperatures will be on the way and temperatures will be on the way and temperatures will be on the rise rapidly into next week. here and now, sunday is pleasant for many. a lot of sunshine for england, wales and the eastern side of scotland. the west and the northern ireland will have rain working through the course of the day with wind picking up as well. that is likely to affect the final date at the open at portrush turning wet and windy late in the afternoon. temperatures in the high teens towards the north—west but down towards the north—west but down towards the north—west but down towards the south—east, 2425dc. this rain will be heavy, particularly for western scotland during the course of sunday evening and overnight into monday morning. rainfall totals mount up over the hills in the west of scotla nd mount up over the hills in the west of scotland but also in northern ireland in north—west england, seeing rain first thing monday morning. the temperatures are in the

mid— high teens to start your working week so i humid monday. improving picture where you have showers for northern england and northern ireland was showers wishing into scotland through the day did further south it is largely dry, sunny and hot. are quite a bit cloud lingering around the western coast further east in the sunshine we are likely to see temperatures reaching 29 or even 30 degrees on monday. widely in the mid— high 20s, even towards them north—west. things are hotting up for us because we have a real heat wave from the middle part of the week. europe and france and spain in particular, the wind drifting up from the south. temperatures in paris could reach 41 celsius by wednesday. if that does happen, that will be the hottest temperature ever recorded in the french capital. 0ver temperature ever recorded in the french capital. over the next five days there will be showers, particularly across the north and west of the uk, putting eastward but look at those temperatures, 33, 30 four degrees in london through the

middle of the week. that is the mid— 90s in fahrenheit. the warmest weather we have seen so far this summer on weather we have seen so far this summer on the way this week.

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