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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  January 24, 2020 5:45pm-6:01pm GMT

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news, 15 years old, coming up on bbc news, 15 years old, and knocking out the defending champion, coco goff beats naomi a sakai to reach the fourth round of the australian open, and on a day of shock, serena williams is beaten by china's wang chang as her weight for winning 24th grand slam title continues, but roger federer survives a huge scare to make it through. we will have the best of the action from melbourne coming in from johannesburg, where there were a mixed fortunes for england on the opening day of the final test against south africa. that's all in sports day at 6:30pm. now i'm 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
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cinema releases is mark kermode. good to see you mark, what have you been watching? interesting week, a new movie about david copperfield. we have no fires and cashmere —— fathers in kashmir, which is a political drama. where franchise is back with the garage. —— the horror franchise. let's talk about david copperfield. this is a new adaptation, it's notable for two reasons for playing up notable for two reasons for playing up the comedic elements and for finding the modernists are real comedic elements in the source. and also for its brilliantly inclusive colourblind ensemble cast. at the centre of it all, we have dev patel as copperfield, who recounts his story from a stage. we see him at the very beginning of the film, he comes on stage and he says "i'm going to recount my life story." and he turns around and walks back into a back drop, and through it and into his own life story. stride
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suppressed the field, arrives at the place of his own breath to witness his own birth, we then see his childhood, his nightmarish time in the bottle factory, his adventure with his friends, and inevitably his love for dora. here is a clip. he's apologising, jip shall we forgive him? he says we shall. thank you, jip. in deeper voice: think nothing of it, sir. he speaks very well. it was actually me. i like to pretend he speaks. some people think it idiotic. oh, no, i do it myself, all the time. don't i, mr... ..apple tree? in deeper voice: yes, yes. i'm david copperfield. are you still being the tree? no. i'm dora...spenlow. spenlow, dora spenlow? yes. i don't know why i said it like that, dora...spenlow.
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i don't usually stop in the middle. trotwood, mr spenlow! sorry. yes. bye — bye! sorry? what was that? just chip. bye—bye, tree. appletree. 0k, ok, you left all the way through that. but mech i left a lot during this film can actually. i think it has an extraordinary cast, i mean they cast... been is the most brilliant incarnation, that putting bowl haircut. what i love about the film as this, firstly, i think it's really vibrant, i mean it's a really vibrant piece of film—making. it sets up this theatrical motive at the beginning, and all the way through the film, there are these kind of theatrical scene changes, when they will be in one scene, and the backdrop will literally fall away like a tart falling, which kind of reinforces the idea of a theatrical presentation. it also has, for me, a touch of terry gilliam is about it. there are
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childhood memories in which you see some fantastical things like a hand breaking through the ceiling as memory and fantasy gives way to reality. it deals with all the really tough stuff like that time in the bottle factory, but, the film is a lwa ys the bottle factory, but, the film is always full of life and colour and motion and emotion, and i think it's, i mean, i left, motion and emotion, and i think it's, i mean, ileft, i've motion and emotion, and i think it's, i mean, i left, i've seen this twice now, and i laughed all the way through, but it wasn'tjust laughter, because it's like a surface adaptation. his laughter because the film is so empathetic. it draws you into this absolutely beautiful broad canvas of characters. not a foot wrong in terms of the performances, some really great comic moments, but at the centre of it, dev patel, who i think has some of the pathos of charlie chaplin. if that he was astonishing. absolutely wonderful. he was such a versatile actor, he's such a brilliant performer. he has his slapstick moments and it, but he has that central thing that like chaplain, you love his characterfor
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all the foibles and all the failings, and you want them to succeed, and you have to love the character to follow the character through this kind of labyrinth journey. i think that i loved it more, you had some reservations. journey. i think that i loved it more, you had some reservationslj thank more, you had some reservations.” thank you love it more than me, but that's not to say i didn't enjoy it come the colours have really stayed with me. i mean, really beautiful, andi with me. i mean, really beautiful, and i love dev patel. i'm not always and i love dev patel. i'm not always afan of and i love dev patel. i'm not always a fan of films thatjust are one famous person after another, ifind that sometimes unimaginative casting, but some of this is superb. i thought hugh laurie was extorting a. absolutely brilliant, i also thought that there are a lot of famous names, but there were less names, this is stage and screen, and there was not one performance in which i thought that person is there for anything other than the fact that they are the right person for the role. good point. swenson, she is brilliantly cast as betsy, she's really funny, and he would laurie is so really funny, and he would laurie is so funny, if you believe in his character and his obsession with the beheading of the cane, i loved it. already one of my favourites of the
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year. go and see it. i think we would both say that. talk is for your second tray. no fathers in kashmir, which is an ambitious trauma written and directed by kumar, who was oscar—nominated for shorts he made in 200a. nominated in 2004 for little shorts he made in 2004. nominated in 2004 for little terrors. so she is norse, british kashmir teenager, she goes to meet her grandparents in a country she's never been to before. while she's there, she befriends this man, and they both discover that their fathers were friends. she a lwa ys that their fathers were friends. she always thought, nor always thought that her father had abandoned the home, but it turns out that both their fathers seem to be part of the disappeared. they are people who have been taken away by the authorities and their fate is unknown. now, the interesting thing about the film is this, it is essentially just make separate about the film is this, it is essentiallyjust make separate films intertwined. 0ne essentiallyjust make separate films intertwined. one of them is a coming of age story, and i think advantage is that stuff really brilliantly. i mean to love a good coming—of—age movie, and i think this has great performances from the two young leads. the other side of it is a much more inadvertently political drama, for me at works less well, it
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involves a level of dramatic contra vents that i didn't buy into. that said, it is made for a very restricted budgets, and with an awful lot of you know passion by eve ryo ne awful lot of you know passion by everyone involved. so i think that even the parts that it failed, it was worth celebrating the part of it that works, and for me, the part of that works, and for me, the part of that that works is the relationship between the two young characters, who i said were terrifically well played stop because we have had the i°y played stop because we have had the joy of david copperfield, you had to bring me something to offset that. how many of those scratch films have you seen? is that a joke question? short version, there was an original version,j horrorfilms short version, there was an original version, j horror films straight to videos, and then a theatrical release, then us which brought on two sequels from the third of which and second of which went back to video, everyone thought this had all gone. no, now it's back. this is described not as a sequel but as a sequel. a sequel. that's where they are using. apparently it's a thing. essentially, story starts where it
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was before, brings the horror over to america, a whole bunch of creepy stuff going on, all of which appears to be tied to a particular house. here is a clip. i see. the lenders, the real estate agents, that thing injapan — they're connected. i'm telling you, you've got to trust me. i get it. i do. i wish i knew how to help you. just take some time off. spend some time with the girls. and then, maybe it'll stop. it's never going to stop. never. let's get out of here. come on. so this is directed by nicholas, who
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directed eyes of my mother and piercing, both of which were really interesting, creepy, strange, inventive films. this is none of those, this is apsley a return to the mechanicalform those, this is apsley a return to the mechanical form of those, this is apsley a return to the mechanicalform of horror movie making in which it goes quiet, quiet, bang! quiet, quiet, bang! and the visuals are dark, dark, scary face! dark, dark... that's it. it's all the way through. you go are we going to get camb? you've got find actors come you have an interesting performance. i think she is great, what is she doing in this? she's reacting to the fact that every horror film it's somebody going come on, seriously? this is like kids entertainment level, this director isa entertainment level, this director is a very fine director, u nfortu nately, is a very fine director, unfortunately, this has none of his best. best outcome i'm afraid, i didn't like this one. i didn't like this one, i know i'm in the minority. this is the last week i'm going to fly the flag for, because i want to use this opportunity to say that i think the fact that adam sandler —— adams and i didn't get nominated for his best performance in uncut gems is terrible, because i think whether you like the film or not. he is very
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good, i will give you to come he's very good. he's better than good, he's astonishing. in that strange comedic exterior, there is a really interesting acting for us struggling to get out. but it's a difficult film. so let's move onto a dvd of the week, because i think we both love it. we both love it, yet. this is bait, it is brilliant, it's an authentic tale and a fishing village in which there income is trying to turn into a tourist house. it's directed by mark chaykin, who shot the whole film and black—and—white film without sound, post sink afterwards, hand processed in his studio. it is, i think, afterwards, hand processed in his studio. it is, ithink, one afterwards, hand processed in his studio. it is, i think, one of the most remarkable films of the last decade. it's been nominated for a couple of bafta does for the breast british film, so let's just say it now, it should win. no question, just forget it, it should win that. he is also nominated for best debut. ijust he is also nominated for best debut. i just loved it. i he is also nominated for best debut. ijust loved it. i absolutely loved it. you are phantom rates? clever, unusual, inventive. you think, this
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will be weird. then it completely sucks you into him again, the visuals, i still remember the visuals. i saw quite a long time ago. absolutely committed to film coming out called the lighthouse, which you should see this on a double bill with the lighthouse, because... rubber pads and! robert penson, it's coming very soon, these two they mirror each other in a very strange way, but what a time to be alive on a filmlike bait is being made. it's terrific. great stuff, mixed bag of wheat, interesting work. to go and see david copperfield thank you so much for being with us, enjoy your cinema going, see you next time, bye— bye. hello there. lots of cloud around through the day today. it's been misty, murky and gloomy as well. lots of photos like this one sent in by our weather watchers through today. this one sent in from eastbourne and east sussex. where we have seen some breaks in the cloud, some beautiful sunset photos. this
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one sent in by a weather watcher in cou nty one sent in by a weather watcher in county durham. if we take a look at the satellite picture from this afternoon, you can see cloud definitely dominated. a few breaks, the best of those work for eastern scotland, north east england, that's where we saw the best of the sunshine. 0vernight where we saw the best of the sunshine. overnight in hk mcleod is going to dominate again. we will see some mist, hill fog, the club thick enough for some patchy light rain, and drizzle into the early hours, starting to see a few breaks in the cloud developing in the far south. here, it could get locally chilly, but for most, it's looking like a frost free night. so, we start the weekend on saturday with lots of generally dry and cloudy weather around, but, this cold front out towards the northwest is going to bring about change. some wet and windy weather to come into sunday. so, saturday is looking like the better of the two days this weekend. lots of cloud around, some mist, mark, hill fog, which could be slow to clear first thing. perhaps if you break your spouse with a bit more in the way of a breeze across england
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and wales, but, again, predominately cloudy with some patchy rain and drizzle. highs around 9—10d celsius. similarto drizzle. highs around 9—10d celsius. similar to what we saw today. you can see that rain pushing into the northwest later in the day, it is going to push southeast as we move into sunday and bring about change. you can see that blue behind me, chillier air mass is on the way. so, here is how sunday is shaping up. 0utbreaks here is how sunday is shaping up. outbreaks of rain in the west to start, gradually pushing east, heavy bursts in there. it will brighten up behind it though, some sunshine coming through for scotland, northern ireland, with a few wintry showers perhaps in the far northwest of scotland. a blustery day, brisk west— south westerly winds, and temperatures and a maximum around 9-10d the temperatures and a maximum around 9—10d the next celsius. head of the front, but behind it, it will turn cool from the northwest. into the start of next week, that cold front clears towards the southeast, this feature could cause some trouble first thing on the roads. we could see some snow for parts of scotland, northern ireland, and northern england first thing on monday. also,
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some ice, perhaps. it's worth bearing in mind if you are travelling. we start the week next week on a noticeably cooler note, with some showers as well, some of which could be wintry. that's the forecast.
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the parents of a week—old baby who died at a hospital trust in kent call for an inquiry after a coroner rules his death was wholly avoidable. harry richford at a hospital in margate — the coroner said neglect contributed to his death — adding to his parents' pain. words can't do itjustice but we've suffered a lot over the last couple of years. and we hope that today is the start of a new beginning for us. we will be looking at the state of maternity services in the uk. also tonight. the coronavirus — attempts to trace 2,000 people who've flown from wuhan in china to the uk in the past fortnight.
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iam doing i am doing this interview because i know a lot of the other victims are not in any state to do it. a victim of one of britain's most dangerous sex offenders —

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