in never rarely sometimes always, hittman investigates an urgent contemporary issue but does so through a coming—of—age story that presents a perfectly observed portrayal of female friendship. sidney flanigan is autumn, a 17—year—old from pennsylvania who discovers that she can't get an abortion in her hometown without parental consent. quietly desperate, she travels to new york with her cousin, played by talia ryder, where these young women find themselves effectively living on the streets while waiting for the procedure that autumn was denied in pennsylvania. where's the rest of the money? the title, never rarely sometimes always, comes from the multiple—choice answers to a series of questions that autumn is asked for the procedure — questions about her health, her history, and most importantly, her safety. touching upon subjects

of coercion and abuse, these questions and responses they elicit — which include significant silences — speak volumes, not only about autumn's experiences but also about those of the many women who, for whatever reason, find themselves in a similar situation. don't you everjust wish you were a dude? all the time. with reproductive rights currently under attack in the us, hittman‘s film, which includes scenes of anti—abortion protesters, strikes a particularly timely note. but it never wears its politics on its sleeve, focusing instead on the day—to—day reality of these young womens‘ lives and the growing bond between them. hittman describes her film as first and foremost, a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and urgent and the loneliness of it all. unobtrusively lensed by helene louvart and combining the melancholy realism of midnight cowboy with the humanist art of the dardennes, never rarely sometimes always is a remarkable film

from an outstanding film—maker — honest, truthful and powerful. it's available from wednesday. today, you will do your first word in the whistling language. which is? mama! he whistles but first, you will do it separately. ma—ma. he whistles not mamu. mama! romanian director corneliu porumboiu, best known for films like 2009's police, adjective, displays a playful attitude to genre in the whistlers, a twisty crime thriller with a colourfully noirish tinge. vlad ivanov is cristi, the corrupt bucharest cop who's

knee—deep in the money—laundering scandal he's meant to be investigating. his equally corrupt superiors are onto him and he knows it, right down to the location of the surveillance cameras they've placed in his apartment. catrinel marlon is the femme fatale who also knows more than she lets on. in fact, all the characters in this enjoyably double—crossing drama have secrets, many of which can only be spoken in the whistling language which cristi must learn on the island of la gomera — a secret code that the cops can't crack. flipping back and forth in time, with multiple chaptered viewpoints, the whistlers is a rip—roaring ride in which everyone‘s playing a role and no one is to be trusted. i enjoyed the heck out of it and you can find it on curzon home cinema, where you can also find porumboiu's previous film, the 2018 documentary oddity infinite football.

sticking with documentaries, camino skies follows six modern pilgrims from new zealand and australia as they walk the historic 800 km trail that leads to the cathedral of santiago de compostela in northwestern spain. i'm going to die. i'm going to die in the ditch. each of the walkers is facing their own personal challenges, whether it's the rigors of age and failing physical ability or the spectres of grief and loss which haunt so many travellers on this trail. it's hardly ground—breaking fare, but you'd have to be pretty hard—hearted not to be moved by these stories of hope

in the face of adversity, sensitively gathered by the film—makers. you can walk alongside these pilgrims, albeit precariously, on curzon home cinema. from uplifting truth to grisly fiction, the wretched is a horror film whose title invites critical scorn but which actually delivers a neat mix of character development, narrative tension and selectively deployed monstrous effects. the plot centres around a tree—dwelling witch that not only devours their victims but also makes everyone forget they ever existed, a neat narrative device.

john—paul howard is ben, the sullen teenager who resents his father's new girlfriend and has little enthusiasm for his summerjob at a marina. but when the neighbours start acting weird — to the terror of their young child — ben becomes convinced that something wicked this way comes. nodding its head to a diverse range of sources, from rear window to fright night, via the woodland iconography of the blair witch project, the wretched is an effective genre exercise from the pierce brothers, who made the anarchic zombie flick deadheads and who here conjure up some eerily atmospheric chills and a few skin—crawling transformations. you're a very stupid boy. you think i don't know what people see? gawking at me, their eyes are like pin balls. " look anywhere but at the gork" — that's what's on their minds. but out of their mouths, we're "special needs". one must be pc after all.

at the opposite end of the spectrum, more beautiful for having been broken is a very personal passion project from writer—director nicole conn. cale ferrin is terrific as freddie, the precocious young boy with a rare genetic condition whose mother becomes unexpectedly involved with an fbi agent, on the run from the ghosts of her past. a strange blend of televisual intrigue, romantic drama and unexpectedly adventurous dance, conn‘s film suffers somewhat from a superfluity of contrived backstory plot, which threatens to get in the way of the characters, the most interesting element. but it's hard to fault the sincerity of the film—making, which clearly mixes personal experience with dramatic invention. poorjojo. what's wrong, little man? hi, adolf. want to tell me about that rabbit incident?

what was all that about? they wanted me to kill it. i'm sorry. i couldn't. don't worry about it. i couldn't care less. but now they call me a scared rabbit. let them say whatever they want. people used to say a lot of nasty things about me. "oh, this guy's a lunatic!" "oh, look at that psycho! he's going to get us all killed!" i'll leave you with news that jojo rabbit, for which taika waititi won a best adapted screenplay oscar, is coming to dvd. we need somebody to walk the clones. following in a great tradition of films like chaplin's the great dictator and roberto benigni's life is beautiful, this uses comedy to address and deflate the horrors of nazism, with waititi playing a slapstick version of hitler, the imaginary best friend of a young boy growing up under the third reich. despite the potentially incendiary premise, i found jojo rabbit to be rather bland — neither sharp norfunny enough to cut to the heart of its controversial subject. many others disagree,

and the film has provoked heated debate since first opening in cinemas. you can make up your own mind about it on dvd from monday. that's it. thank for watching the film review. stay safe and i'll be back next week with more home viewing treats. you aren't eating. no, i am not that hungry. i might eat later. for now, i'm just going to chew on these grapes. hello. well, it's time to get a check on the weather for the next week or so. friday was obviously a pretty good day for most of us. a few showers lurking around here and there, but, on the whole, a bright and warm day. and saturday is looking every bit as warm, in fact a degree or so higher, i think the temperatures will be across some south—eastern areas.

and that's because the weather has been coming in from the south, but the skies have been hazy at times. now all eyes to the very far north. you can see this line of cloud here. it doesn't look very dramatic on the satellite picture, but this is a very significant weather front. it's a cold front and, behind it, we've got air coming all the way from the arctic and what we're basically going to see over the next couple of days or so is this cold air plunging in from the north and reaching southern parts of the uk. so those temperatures are expected to drop dramatically through the course of sunday right across the country. but that's still to come. we've still got a pretty warm day on the way on saturday and this is what it looks like on saturday before that cold air arrives. so temperatures early in the morning around 10 degrees, 7 in the north, and this to the north of scotland is the beginning of that cold front. you can see behind it the winds are blowing out of the north, screaming northerlies, quite strong winds as well. this means cloud and rain for northern scotland, a real chill in the air, the possibility of snow across the mountains. and only 10 in stornoway, but not far off 20 degrees there in southern parts of scotland and the mid—20s in the south.

so, that was saturday afternoon. saturday night into sunday, that cold air arrives and you can see it oozing down across the country through the course of sunday. so, for some of us, sunday is going to be cloudy. there will be a little bit of rain brought by this cold front, but the most significant thing is going to be that cold wind blowing out of the north. wintry showers across the hills in scotland. a real wind—chill in the air on the north sea coast, screaming gusty winds in the south—east. could be gusts of around 40mph or so, and with that big temperature drop, you really will feel the chill, particularly in the shade. and on top of that, sunday night into monday, an air frost will develop across the north of the country and a ground frost across the south. so, gardeners, as we often say, beware. now, the forecast for monday still suggests some pretty strong winds across the north sea coasts there around east anglia and the south—east. the temperatures will only be around 12 degrees in london, single figures there on the north sea coast,

but still a little bit milder there in the south—west, around 13 or so. and then for the rest of the week, we're anticipating high pressure to anchor itself across the uk. the winds are actually going to fall light through the course of... or lighter, compared to the weekend and monday. so, that will allow the air to warm up a little bit. so, once those winds off the north sea and out of the north ease, we'll start to see those temperatures rising a little bit. you can see london back up to round about 16 by the time we get to the end of the week. so, a real chill in the air, i think, for sunday, monday, tuesday as well. but then beyond that, thursday, friday and into the following weekend, we can see that high pressure‘s with us and we'll see those weather conditions settling down. those winds continuing to ease and it'll turn just that little bit warmer. so here's the summary — just like yesterday, it's going to be colder from sunday, there is an air frost on the way, particularly across the northern half of the uk, and then we've got a relatively cool week ahead. bye— bye.

tonight at ten, the queen conveys respect and gratitude to the generation that secured victory in europe on ve day. 75 years after she appeared on the palace balcony with her father the king, her majesty acknowledged the unavoidable absence of similar scenes at this time. today it may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. instead, we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. but our streets are not empty. they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other. across the united kingdom at i! this morning, a two—minute silence was observed