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 riding 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's celebrating her birthday. i just thought for a second that when the lights went out that 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 spreads like wildfire in this film, and the question of whether it's imagined or a genuine apocalypse hangs in the air. while it was 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. like many 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. euh... up 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 explore 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're 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 a long way, 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 we're 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. 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 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've tried, but i'm the wrong person. poorjamie is stuck in the middle when the 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 spot—on in this kind of role, but american bening

is woefully miscast, and that's really not something i thought i'd 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 her 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 this settlement that you and edward have come up with, do i get more than i'd get if he died? her character is also underwritten, so while hope gap is moving and charming in 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 invents bedtime stories for his daughter sofia. set in story land, this tiny feature himself as the heroic prince, 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 fantastical film studio where our hero finds himself displaced by his daughter's new boyfriend. it's not initially entirely clear if story land is a dreamworld that happens when one character is asleep, or a projection of his mental state, which i found a little frustrating, and the jumps between 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 even in a slightly cliched role as the ditzy neighbour. subtitled and rated 12a, the lost prince is the kind of innocuous family comedy 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 three and half 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 boy 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 ghibli 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 but i must confess i wasn't spirited away by the entire film. onto real life and the documentary burning man: art on fire. this temple 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 we're going to make something. get to work! a big part of that is

the extraordinary art on display. you can 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 doc 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... blending for core with home invasion drama and psychosexual fervor, thomas clay pots my film is set in 1657 and oliver cromwell‘s britain. it stars peake as the wife of a pious farmer played by charles dance. they're quiet rual life with their young son is seriously disrupted by the arrival of a freethinking young couple played by freddie fox and tanya reynolds. 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've every right put you down. my wife, sir. please. ican explain... let him speak, sir. with the brisk northerly wind, it did not always feel that way temperature simply struggling to get across the low teens and for others, the sunshine to speak of, distant parts of northern and eastern england, east anglia in southeast england, all tied in with this of low pressure continued to pull away eastwards in the early hours, high—pressure to the uk and the squeeze in the isobars to some gusty winds down the eastern coasts. it is a cool if not chilly start, particularly across rural scotland

where we could see temperatures getting temperatures getting close to freezing. but we'll find his cloud will tend to build and eventually spread out, so bright and sunny spells through the afternoon, maybe one or two showers across northern ireland, temperatures which at best are going to be 1a widely single figures, low single figures across rural parts of northern england and northern ireland. monday, away from scotland, isa bank ireland. monday, away from scotland, is a bank holiday, high pressured the dominant fixture, may be rain later in the day into northern ireland and western scotland. but let's cast our mind back to the late august bank holiday last year, the

warmest on record, 33 celsius in london and cambridge, something much different this year. but it will be dry, quiet, once again cloud starting to build, increasing across northern ireland and western scotland, patchy rain here by the end of the day. temperatures at best 16-18 c, this end of the day. temperatures at best 16—18 c, this year it could be the coolest late august bank holiday on record. looking ahead through tuesday and wednesday, our eyes turn to the atlantic, particularly on wednesday, deep area of low pressure tracking to the north of the uk bringing wet and windy weather, but probably not to the south of england, so some rain in the forecast in the week ahead, still not feeling particularly warm. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lewis vaughan jones. tributes to the actor chadwick boseman, who's died of cancer at the age of a3. he starred in the gound—breaking marvel hit black panther. the italian coastguard takes 49 migrants from a rescue ship funded by the artist banksy, but hundreds remain at sea. thousands protest in mauritius at the government's handling of a massive oil spill which threatens the island's marine life. this is a healthy and happy pig with an implant that is two months old. working well, yeah. billionaire entrepreneur elon musk demonstrates a computer chip implanted in a pig's brain — technology, he says, which might ultimately cure neurological diseases in humans.