tv The Film Review BBC News February 28, 2020 5:45pm-6:01pm GMT
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hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is james king. 50 james, what do we have this week? there is a new version of invisible man, but is it a must see? will ferrell struggles in the snow and comedy drama down here. and the foreign language film everyone is talking about that is not parasite. portrait of a that is tight with invisible man. but i be scared out of my wits? we love a her family. you know the story of invisible man. the hg wells the story. it is a date with the credits from a different perspective. it is about the invisible man's partner. his
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girlfriend, and a bully and she wa nts to girlfriend, and a bully and she wants to escape him she escapes their house but of course because he is invisible because of his power as he can secretly stop her. so a different take on a classic story. it is start in this. he has figured out a way to be invisible. and you know exactly what i'm talking about. he's not bad. —— he's not bad. ijust can't see him. 0k, thoughl he's not bad. ijust can't see him. 0k, though i agree with you, each man was brilliant but it was not because of anything he invented, it was how he got in people's heads. you think about it. you came up with that perfectly to torture you even in death. only thing more brilliant than inventing something that makes you invisible is not inventing it. but making you think he did. he's
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not dead, tom. it's a very clever? very clever. because ultimately it isa very clever. because ultimately it is a horrorfilm. a horror thriller but really it's about that change effort —— protagonist it's about a woman trying to escape her abuser and that mind games that he plays on her. so, yes it's creepy, it's made by people who have made lots of other hot —— horror films, if any gloomy paranormal activity and the purge, all your favourites. gloomy paranormal activity and the purge, all yourfavourites. seeing them all many times but a very successful and slick low—budget horror movies. so it has a horror pedigree but i think because of that central concept, the twist in the chair if you like, this actually has something more to it. something much more profound about it. i'm a more emotional, or even watching the trailer, it made me quite tense because it is a woman who has been a victim of whether it's coercive control, some form of domestic
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violence. of course everybody around her wants to help her. but says of course you are traumatised, of course you are traumatised, of course you are traumatised, of course you are, look what he used to do to you. and it is her trying to convince people, mainly them that actually happened. because the diet invisible. no one has got proof of it. they think it's all in her so there's a lot of mind games, psychological stuff i really appreciate that. you are on the edge of your seats to use the old cliche, anticipating the jumps on the stairs. great use of silence and empty spaces and base. if you want the old school jumps empty spaces and base. if you want the old schooljumps and stares, they are there. but it does have that little something extra that makes it a must see. really interesting and people love elizabeth moss at the moment. she is brilliant. she is fragile but determined as well. change of scene for your second choice? yes. this is downhill, an american remake of apes, it came out 2014, as swedish
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director made it. great movie about a couple on holiday in the alps and a couple on holiday in the alps and a relationship crisis that happens. the american version seesjulia louis dreyfus and will ferrell. pretty much the same story about this couple in the aftermath of an avalanche that happens at their resort. but even before you see this, you can tell that it's going to be different to be original. because, this is 90 minutes long, the original was two hours long so you go half an hour is gone, what had been cut out? what has happened? actually, when you watch it because the original was great and it is likely that it's going to be different to be original. because, this is 90 minutes long, the original was two hours long so you go half an hour is gone, what had been cut out? what has happened? actually, when you watch it because the original was great and it is nice to be the same story it's still an interesting story about a married couple, the problems they have and how they all come to a head on this holiday and then some insightful stuff in there. the husband is a real coward , stuff in there. the husband is a real coward, he should have bluffed
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his way through life. the main female dynamic range interesting but half an hour shorter which means less complex, less subtle, it's kind of the cliff notes version of the original film. of the cliff notes version of the originalfilm. the bullet points of the originalfan. originalfilm. the bullet points of the original fan. that does originalfilm. the bullet points of the originalfan. that does not originalfilm. the bullet points of the original fan. that does not make it back, it's very easy to watch. the original one had to it. and that is the movie that sticks with you rather than this one which is a much simpler thing. i only think that is interesting. do these films need to be remade when you are saying the original was so much better. i studio boss was saying you know what, we will put it in beautiful scenery,, we will getjulia louis dreyfus, it will be a winner. the original was an art—house film, a foreign language come to us and they don't quite know in this new version, is it an art—house film again, they had a listers in it. it's fine but what's the original, it's better. you have got a cracking foreign language down as a choice tonight. so this is the french hysterical drama portrait of a lady
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on fire. if you twice tonight. so this is the french historical drama portrait of a lady on fire. the film—maker behind this, and of the 18th century, this is set by mariana, a portrait painter and she's commissioned to paint the portrait of heloise, the bride—to—be and a reluctant bride—to—be and she lives out on an island on the coast such she goes there to do this painting. an awkward relationship between and at first but that relationship blossomed into romance. let's have a look.
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i wish i could now pull out one of those pipes from my pocket.|j i wish i could now pull out one of those pipes from my pocket. i was listening to the crackling of the fire impact prep thinking how clever it was. i think it's very, very classy film. very classy. it contained a a sense of that in the clip as well, and a sense of that in the clip as well, an enigmatic film.
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you see me, i loved it. but it's a film i want to go back more to unlocking this movie. you get it the first time around but i think you will continue to be rewarded the first time around but i think you will continue to be rewarded with more things than what times you watch it. it looks beautiful. actually. a lot of it is quite unfair. where they left, where it set on this item but i guess it's the passion between these two characters that is the fire, you can see the fire there, it is the warmth of the film and the beauty of the film. and the paintings as well that you see are beautiful so there are these little elements of beauty and romance and passion within this quite a romance and passion within this quitea and romance and passion within this quite a and setting and ultimately it's about two women who are finally allowed to be what they want to be ata time allowed to be what they want to be at a time when they weren't and yes, they have to do it in virtual isolation. but, it's a film about the authenticity about people being their authentic selves. the authenticity about people being their authentic selveslj the authenticity about people being their authentic selves. i got to be an andi their authentic selves. i got to be an and i thought how clever it was because there is the levy character of the maid as well and the whole
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throughout it, this is the 17th set —— century, men are in control and namea —— century, men are in control and name a teddy control of the three remaining in different ways but they get that to the end of that them i do think all there is hardly a man and if at all. really clever. you read these books and they are and as of that bear and hitchcock as well there's a few hitchcock nods but entirely it's on film and a beautiful one. very beautiful indeed. i'm glad you have chosen this. it's fascinating. i guess he could call it sci—fi. it's dental science fiction. i don't know what to call it. everyone and then use the music room is saying what is that film and i said i don't know how to categorise it. it can't easily summarise it although you have to. it is about two scientists, they develop this genetically modified plants that has this
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revolutionary saints that can help with depression but of course there are side effects that it can make you act in strange ways and it's a strange film. a strange film shot in a lots of really deep reds and hot pinks, this kind of wild crazy cacophonous soundtrack going on as well. but, i found cacophonous soundtrack going on as well. but, ifound it really intriguing. it reminded me of 80s david kronenberg films. that clinical quality about it. very clinical quality about it. very clinical and visually sort of almost perfect but in a way that is too perfect but in a way that is too perfect and that's deliberate and a very clever. i suppose ultimately it is about an hour on prescription drugs and pills and things to try and make us feel better and try and make us think we are worthwhile and that people and good parents but certainly not like anything i've seen before. a quick talk about bbb. black and blue. 0ne seen before. a quick talk about bbb. black and blue. one of our finest who morphs seamlessly into a new
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0 rlea ns co p who morphs seamlessly into a new 0rleans cop in this movie investigating police corruption and thatis investigating police corruption and that is interesting things about their safety, your writing has had plenty of problems of ready years and reaches in this city but ultimately funny it is heard in the performance that makes it because she isjust such performance that makes it because she is just such a presence. performance that makes it because she isjust such a presence. lovely to see you. thank you very much. and thank you for watching and enjoy your cinema going whatever you choose to see. goodbye. hello. it is another weekend with a main storm and that means more wind and rain. he had some rain already today. there is more to come overnight. it's all going to go into the river systems and they may for some further flooding of a the days ahead. not only have we had some rain there is all adding some snow over the high ground, briefly across northern england, and more especially in scotland. had a radar
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picture of any past few hours and get feedback like leather. a lot of it is pushing to the north and the snow is easing across northern scotland. we have but the area of rain notfar scotland. we have but the area of rain not farfrom scotland. we have but the area of rain not far from the southwest of england and into wales. if we look to the last bit is the next dose of rain. as will be happy and it will be accompanied by liens it will sweep its way in from the west overnight. it should be clearing away from western part of england and wales by morning. it is these areas will see the heaviest of their rainfall from today and overnight. could be of arsenic in any case of the hills of wales. by the time we get into the mining the elect whether it is in eastern england and it sweeps away from the man scotland and we get from sunshine as the winds pick up and be a blow in the showers and some wet weather coming in to northern ireland and setting scotla nd in to northern ireland and setting scotland and later into northern england with some snow the hills. 0nly england with some snow the hills. only four or england with some snow the hills. 0nlyfouror5 england with some snow the hills. only four or 5 degrees here, not much warmer but it will feel chatty as the day goes on and as the winds pick up. it will turn green be every
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by mid to late afternoon. the strongest of the winds are of course going to be closer to the centre of storm jorge and that is why we are seeing not just storm jorge and that is why we are seeing notjust rain but also the strengthening liens during saturday. it is why we have got the strung link later in the day and overnight. up link later in the day and overnight. up to 75 miles an hour. especially when they had the showers come along. also let a pushing its way northward into scotland and the cold air. more in a moment. there is storm jorge fitting to the northwest of scotla nd storm jorge fitting to the northwest of scotland during sunday. it is weakening. the winds were less than happy happy sweat assist in bringing cloud and rain during sunday into the english channel into the southern part of england and mimi into the southeast. further north we have got wet weather in scotland and that will bring a lot of snow into the highlands of scotland of a night and into self —— sunday. in between we are looking drier and quieter wings gradually lessening. they will be sunshine and a few showers. as he
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