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hello there, and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. i'm filling in for mark kermode to review this week's releases. with tenet dominating cinemas, some of this week's best new releases are on digital. one that particularly intrigues me is the darkly comic psychological thriller called she dies tomorrow.

do i have to wear the helmet? yeah, definitely very important to wear the helmet. you know, these things look like big toys but at the end of the day, if you hit anything to fast into straight on, this thing could flip right over. well, i'm going to die anyway. written and directed by actor amy seimetz, it stars kate lyn sheil as amy, a party girl who becomes convinced that she's going to die tomorrow. her friend jane thinks that she's imagining things, but then jane suddenly becomes convinced that she too will die tomorrow. but how do you know? i just know. but amy decides to go dune buggy writing in herfinal hours, as you do, jane barrels into her brother's house wailing about her impending demise much to the annoyance of her sarcastic sister—in—law who celebrate her birthday. i just thought for a second that when the lights went out, that was it. this bitterly funny scene alone makes the film well worth the watch, but she dies tomorrow has more to offer than hollow laughs.

it's an uneasy reflection on the nature of anxiety and paranoia. hey, it's amy. i won't be around tomorrow. or any date after that, but feel free to leave a message. obviously, this was made before the pandemic but it feels eerily relevant. morbid catastrophising and spreads like wildfire in this film, and the question of whether it's imagined or a genuine apocalypse hangs in the air. while it dwells a bit too long on her lead character's story, seimetz has assembled a terrific cast and creates a tangible sense of existential dread amid the trippy visuals and acutely observed character comedy. but mainly a disaster movie, this observes how different people react to the prospect of a catastrophe. at a trim 84 minutes, she dies tomorrow doesn't have the time to fully explore the themes it raises, but it's a thought—provoking and entertaining watch. it's on digital now. speaking french.

of next, matthias & maxime, a drama from canadian director xavier dolan. dolan‘s 2016 film it's only the end of the world split critical opinion at the cannes film festival. i remember being at the press screening and hearing both cheers and boos at the end of it. i'm generally quite open to dolan‘s leisurely character driven dramas that is for the dynamics of a group of self absorbed individuals, and matthias & maxime is another one of these. it stars dolan himself as maxime who is part of a close—knit gang of male friends including matthias who is ably played by gabriel d'almeida freitas. the pair agree to appear in a student film, little knowing that they'll be

required to kiss on camera. we'll not let in on all the details of what happens that day, but it's clear the shoot has had a profound effect on them both. the score hints at a foreboding thriller, but this is really a portrait of two friends silently, separately experiencing a sexual crisis. expressive performances go along and there's humour in everything from matthias‘s pantry to the pretentious film student who throws american colloquialisms into her canadian french. british actor harris dickinson brings ample charm in a supporting role and like many characters were not entirely sure why he's there but you're kind of glad that he is. matthias & maxime is available on mubi. now, to the sussex coast and william nicholson's hope gap, a drama inspired by his own parents's sudden divorce.

i always somehow feel that i'm in the wrong. i don't care about who's right or wrong, i just want you to be there. they argue. it's like somehow you sneaked away while i wasn't looking, i don't know how else to put it. josh o'connor plays jamie who is visiting his folks when he's shocked to learn that his father edward, played by bill nighy, is preparing to leave his mother grace, played by annette bening. i'm sorry. i can't make grace happy, i tried but i'm the wrong person. poorjamie is stuck in the middle when they usually downtrodden edward abruptly heads off, leaving the headstrong grace heartbroken and furious. this woman is clearly used to getting her own way. hello, i'm here too. hello, hello, hello! how are you, grace? fine, fine, fine... as you can imagine, nighy is a spot on in this kind of role, but american bening is woefully miscast and that's really not something i quite ever say. i usually worship the ground she walks on. how could he sit there and say that i am the entire value

of the family home? while her physical performance is good, bening's english accent sounds distractingly affected, perhaps a hangover from theatre stint in noel coward's fallen angels where she took on the role previous played by the very deep—voiced frances de la tour. so, the settlement that you and edward have come up with, do i get more than i get if he died? her character is also underwritten so while hope gap is moving and charming and parts, it's not quite what you'd expect from this high quality cast. the location is the real star here. hope gap is in cinemas and on curzon home cinema now. if you're looking for a family film on the big screen, then the french fantasy the lost prince mightjust fit the bill. directed by michel hazanavicius who gave us multiple oscar winner the artist, this stars omar sy as a widower who reads bedtime stories for his daughter, sofia. set in story land, this tiny feature itself as the hero

prints and he does it rather well. but when sophia turns 11, she becomes less bothered about daddy's tall tales and more interested in, you guessed it, a boy at school. the lost prince flits between two worlds. there's the everyday father and daughter saga, and then there's story land, a kind of fantasticalfilm studio where our hero finds himself displaced by his daughter's new boyfriend. it's not initially entirely clear if story land is atrium road that happens when one character is asleep, or a projection of his mental state which i found a little frustrating, and the jumps from the view of the two worlds often feels kind of random. i was more engaged with the real trauma. it's always good to see the artist star berenice bejo in a slightly cliched role as the ditzy neighbour. subtitled an rated 12 a,

the lost prince is the kind of innocuous family calmly you can imagine being picked up by hollywood and remade starring dwayne "the rock" johnson. also in cinemas is an animation that's taken one young man 3.5 years to make single—handedly. away is written, produced, directed, animated, and composed by latvian film—maker gints zilbalodis. it tells the story of a boy travelling across an island on a motorbike. a dark spirit appears intermittently and the boys makes a series of connections with different animals along the way. bearing in mind practical restraints, the animation is very impressive. there are shades of studio jubilee films like spirited away, though this has no dialogue and a simple story,

so away is perhaps a more moody piece than a conventional film. there is a poetic sense of adventure and there's room for interpretation around the meaning of the animals. i personally enjoyed a scene with multiple cats buy must confess i wasn't spirited away by the entire film. onto real—life and the documentary burning man: art on fire. this is for you! a week—long celebration of radical self—expression in the nevada desert, burning man has long been a life—changing experience for many attendees, including myself. there was nothing and were going to make something. get to work. a big part of that is the extraordinary art on display. you get cycle deep into the desert and see a sculpture the size of a house suddenly appear through the dust.

this here is robot resurrection. let's resurrect and think differently. this document re—follows the artists who worked on the burning man temple in 2018, a year that became particularly significant after the sudden death of burning man's founder, larry harvey. filmed in harsh desert conditions with the aid of many volunteers, this spends quite a lot of time detailing construction, but it also does justice to real characters like flash hopkins who i'd love to see played by ethan hawke one day. it's another dream come true for someone out here on the playa. given that the physical burning man event was inevitably cancelled this year, it's a timely tribute with moving moments. it's on—demand now, and if you're curious to know about the desert gigs that partly inspired burning man in the early 80s, then the anarchic postpunk dock desolation center is also available online. finally, to a film that's new to dvd this week,

fanny lye deliver‘d starting the fabulous maxine peake. very thankful to thee who put this food before us... knocks on door. blending for core with home invasion drama and psychosexual fervor, thomas clay pots my film is set in 1657 and oliver cromwell‘s britain. —— blending folk horror. it stars peake as the wife of a pious farmer played by charles dance. they're quite worldwide with their young son is seriously disrupted by the arrival of a freethinking young couple played by freddie fox and tanya reynolds. —— quiet rural life. i lay with whom i like and he lays with whom he likes. but it's a gripping startling watch with dashes of dark humour and ample room for reflection on a range of themes from religious fervor to feminism and freedom, and maxine peake is superb. you're wasting your time, mr ashbury. thanks for watching the film review with me, anna smith. mark kermode will be back next week. in the meantime, stay safe. i maybe wanted to put you down. my wife, sir. please. ican explain... let him speak, sir.

hello there. you could see the rain coming on friday, but it was very difficult to get out of the way. this weekend, though, the weather is set to change. for a start, it's going to be a much drier weekend. however, it's not going to be very warm at all. some particularly cold nights, and we're going to start with some strong winds as well. a northerly wind as our area of low pressure takes most of the rain away towards the southeast and gets pushed away slowly by that high pressure coming in from the west. by the time we get to the morning, there still could be a few showers down the eastern side of england, and there's the threat of cloud coming back in off the north sea to bring some rain in during the afternoon. elsewhere, some spells of sunshine.

there will be a few showers notably across northern parts of scotland. there will be a northerly wind as well. it's always going to be stronger where we're more likely to have that rain.

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