hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. look who is here! he is real, it is mark kermode really here in the studio, not an avatar!— mark kermode really here in the studio, not an avatar! fabulous to be back in — studio, not an avatar! fabulous to be back in the _ studio, not an avatar! fabulous to be back in the studio _ studio, not an avatar! fabulous to be back in the studio with - studio, not an avatar! fabulous to be back in the studio with you, . be back in the studio with you, jane, lovely to see you again. a packed show coming up, reviews of the collini case, which is a german crime thriller... we have respect, which is the biopic of aretha franklin, withjennifer hudson, and we have herself, a new film by phyllida lloyd, which we have different opinions about. we start with the collini _ different opinions about. we start with the collini case. _ different opinions about. we start with the collini case. yes, - different opinions about. we start with the collini case. yes, based | different opinions about. we start i with the collini case. yes, based on a book by ferdinand von schirach, which i confess i have not read and it is a very famous book. the story is a young lawyer is assigned to a case in which he has to defend

someone, played by the great elyas m'barek, and shortly after the murder of a lawyer appears in his cupboard in his own blood and refuses to play his own defence. here's a clip.

so it then transpires that the lawyer actually knew the victim impact victim was something of him and talk to him, took him under his wing and almost fathered him. the question is why on earth would anybody want to kill this man, who was an respected industrialist and a very good person, as far as anyone knows. the author of the book, his grandfather was a very high—ranking nazi who was trialled at nuremberg and what are the things the book is about is coming to terms with the past and the ghost of your own past and accepting the fact that people who seem like one thing may actually be something completely different, so a lot of the story is to do with confronting guilt. it is also a pretty good drama in terms of it is a courtroom drama. i love a courtroom drama, i do understand courtroom drama, i do understand courtroom dramas are full of things that never happen in real courtrooms, like people producing witnesses out of nowhere and no one has ever heard of, people presenting papers that i just has ever heard of, people presenting papers that ijust happen to have in my bag... i

papers that i 'ust happen to have in m ban . .. ~ papers that i 'ust happen to have in m ban... ~ ., my bag... i quite like a courtroom drama to, you see... _ my bag... i quite like a courtroom drama to, you see... i— my bag... i quite like a courtroom drama to, you see... i am - my bag... i quite like a courtroom drama to, you see... i am a - my bag... i quite like a courtroom | drama to, you see... i am a sucker for it, i keep _ drama to, you see... i am a sucker for it, i keep expecting _ drama to, you see... i am a sucker for it, i keep expecting somebodyl drama to, you see... i am a sucker. for it, i keep expecting somebody to slam on the table and say, you can't handle the truth. if you accept that thatis handle the truth. if you accept that that is what it is and it does have all those conventions, then i think it is very entertaining, but more importantly it is about something very serious, it is about that thing of looking back into the past, a country's guilty past and your own family's guilty past and asking questions about whether people are the people that they seem to be, so it is doing quite a clever thing, which is it is a potboiler on one hand, but it is also about something far more substantial. i haven't read the book, but i'd very much enjoyed the book, but i'd very much enjoyed the film, it is called the collini case and it is in cinemas now. 0k. now respect, i really want — is in cinemas now. 0k. now respect, i really want this _ is in cinemas now. 0k. now respect, i really want this to _ is in cinemas now. 0k. now respect, i really want this to be _ is in cinemas now. 0k. now respect, i really want this to be good - i really want this to be good because aretha franklin, what a figure and what a story.- figure and what a story. yes, extraordinary _ figure and what a story. yes, extraordinary life _ figure and what a story. yes, extraordinary life story - figure and what a story. yes, extraordinary life story and l figure and what a story. yes, extraordinary life story and it figure and what a story. yes, i extraordinary life story and it is played byjennifer hudson, who is fantastic in the lead and everybody

expected this. aretha franklin herself basically appointed jennifer hudson and was very controlling on the project right up until her death in 2018 and she said tojennifer hudson, you are the right person to do this. that is great, she can sing and act, she has a great presence and act, she has a great presence and that is great. i think the problem is the film itself is not quite as exceptional as either its central performance or indeed as aretha franklin. it is a very tumultuous life story and the film wants to play things fairly safe, so there is domestic abuse, alcoholism, there is domestic abuse, alcoholism, there is domestic abuse, alcoholism, there is a lot of stuff that is quite dark and the film acknowledges it. what it doesn't really know then thatis it. what it doesn't really know then that is what to do with it. the musical set pieces are fantastic, i mean really fantastic and it goes from the 1950s in detroit up to 1972 in the recording of her record—breaking gospel album and actually because that is a very glorious place to finish, people will recently have seen amazing grace, de documentary about her doing that, which was delayed for so

long. yes. so i think it is worth seeing it forjennifer hudson's performance because she is terrific, ijust performance because she is terrific, i just wanted the film to performance because she is terrific, ijust wanted the film to be more exceptional and an awful lot of the rock biopic so got the same beats and a lot of this seems familiar, but she carries it shoulder high and when she is on stage and doing it, she is really great. it is notjust the voice. it is the gesture is, the way she holds her head back, half closes her eyes. she has got the physical performance absolutely down, so that is great, but the film is not as good as her performance. wright, a mixed bag, jennifer hudson is very talented, isn't she? i'm fascinated to know what you make of herself. 0k, make of herself. ok, so i mentioned that i don't think respect knows what to do with itself, so this when is set in 2020, before anything happened, and is co—written by malcolm campbell and clare dunne and it is about someone who buys a house

and sees it online and someone says it is possible to build a house for a small amount of money and it sounds ridiculous, but someone says i will give you my back garden to do it if you can make the house. he was a clip. a house? hm. our own house? hm. at the bottom of the garden? like a fairy house. the only thing is, girls — and this is really important, right? we can't tell anyone. not anyone at school, not granddad and especially, not nanny, granddad and especially, especially not daddy. why? i am just going by what ado the builder said. he said that's the rules and you've seen him, right? you don't want to mess with him, do you? no. so we have to keep this to ourselves, yeah? our own special secret. like black widow? sort of. what's that? oh, it's just a code word. it's better you don't know. yeah. so...

no telling, 0k? hm. pinkie promise? both: one... ..two...three... ..pinkie promise! 0h, girls. and that is a fantastic clip, i think, because that summarises so much and reminds us how brilliant the three of them are when they are on screen together. find the three of them are when they are on screen together.— on screen together. and you completely believe them - on screen together. and you completely believe them as| on screen together. and you | completely believe them as a on screen together. and you - completely believe them as a family. yes, yes. . completely believe them as a family. yes, es. . _ , ., yes, yes. , directed by phyllida llo d, yes, yes. , directed by phyllida lloyd. who _ yes, yes. , directed by phyllida lloyd. who is — yes, yes. , directed by phyllida lloyd, who is a _ yes, yes. , directed by phyllida lloyd, who is a brilliant - yes, yes. , directed by phyllida. lloyd, who is a brilliant director, but he was the interesting thing. half the film is about the nightmare of domestic abuse and half is about the dream of building your own home, which is, you know, almost a fairy tale. in that, at one point they refer to it is a fair return home. i think the thing the drama does really well for me is that on the one hand it has got that stuff you get from something like witness, remember the barn building seen in witness, which everyone loves, of

course everyone loves watching him being built. and it uses that you tell a much darker story about the plight of a woman who is being failed by the system, who is looking everywhere for help and is not receiving it. ithink everywhere for help and is not receiving it. i think what the drama manages to do is tell that you tell a much darker story about the plight of a woman who is being failed by the system, who is looking everywhere for help and is not receiving it. ithink everywhere for help and is not receiving it. i think what the drama manages to do is tell much i know you were quite surprised by how tough some of it was? i you were quite surprised by how tough some of it was?— you were quite surprised by how tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it — tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it was _ tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it was more _ tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it was more a _ tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it was more a film - tough some of it was? i felt... for me i felt it was more a film about| me i felt it was more a film about the domestic violence than the house building, even though there are some quitejoyous scenes building, even though there are some quite joyous scenes with the house—building and the way her neighbours come to help and all that sort of thing. i thought it was a cover undercurrent, but a real knot in your stomach constantly because you are constantly worried about the abusive man who do know is still out there. 50 abusive man who do know is still out there. , ., ,. ., there. so here is the fascinating thin. if there. so here is the fascinating thing- if you _ there. so here is the fascinating thing. if you actually _ there. so here is the fascinating thing. if you actually look at the j thing. if you actually look at the amount of screen time that you see, you know, it is flashbacks... it is fairly discreet. yes. but this, it is like a tension in your gut, all

the way through because they are interspersed as flashbacks and you feel they are the background everything. i think that is what is clever about the film, that is what is clever, what the former is doing is clever, what the former is doing is sugar—coating the pill by making it apparently about putting the house together, as all this stuff, will it happen, will it work, all that stuff, but actually it is about something more serious and i think if you are going to make something about this kind of story the challenge is to make it acceptable. will i enjoy watching it? well, yes, there is plenty to enjoy in herself. there is also plenty to be alarmed by, but i think that is a pretty good balancing act.— by, but i think that is a pretty good balancing act. yes, i would auree, good balancing act. yes, i would agree. great _ good balancing act. yes, i would agree, great performances... i good balancing act. yes, i would i agree, great performances... great to see in cinemas _ agree, great performances... great to see in cinemas as _ agree, great performances... great to see in cinemas as well— agree, great performances... (e—r to see in cinemas as well because it was going to go... it cinema release was going to go... it cinema release was messed up and it should have won awards but it was a little last year but nobody saw it, so now it is great it is in cinemas.- great it is in cinemas. yes, absolutely _ great it is in cinemas. yes, absolutely go _ great it is in cinemas. yes, absolutely go see - great it is in cinemas. yes, absolutely go see it. - great it is in cinemas. yes, absolutely go see it. whatl great it is in cinemas. yes, | absolutely go see it. what is great it is in cinemas. yes, - absolutely go see it. what is your verdict on best out? i love anette, which is the musical

by leos carax, who made box. i absolutely love box. a story about a cynical comedian who marries a much loved soprano and they have a baby which is portrayed by a puppet and the baby inherits the voice of its mother and it is like a fable, a dark fable in many ways. it sounds like a completely bonkers idea, but it works for me because there is a kernel of truth in there. i have seen it three times now, played the soundtrack over and over again, it has some real earworms. sparks are great dear ones songs, but... it looks wacky! beyond _ great dear ones songs, but... it looks wacky! beyond wacky! - great dear ones songs, but... it looks wacky! beyond wacky! it | great dear ones songs, but... it i looks wacky! beyond wacky! it is, but it is that _ looks wacky! beyond wacky! it is, but it is that thing _ looks wacky! beyond wacky! it is, but it is that thing about - looks wacky! beyond wacky! it is, but it is that thing about quirky, l but it is that thing about quirky, there is a very thin line between quirky and irksome. wacky makes it sound zany, which i never like zany, but it is strange and experimental and awesome as it may be cry. i love films that make me cry. so and awesome as it may be cry. i love films that make me cry.— films that make me cry. so do i! the servant, films that make me cry. so do i! the servant. really. _ films that make me cry. so do i! the servant, really, really _ films that make me cry. so do i! the servant, really, really want - films that make me cry. so do i! the servant, really, really want to - films that make me cry. so do i! the servant, really, really want to see, l servant, really, really want to see, though. servant, really, really want to see, thou~h. ,, ., ., ,

servant, really, really want to see, thou~h. ,, ., ,. , though. the servant was described, in 1960s film _ though. the servant was described, in 1960s film with _ though. the servant was described, in 1960s film with a _ screenplay by harold pinter and it has got wendy craig and lots of others and it is about people stuck in a... which servant and master relationships, and this film influenced everything from... inaudible there is a steve woolley film which takes a lot from it in performance, it is 4k, takes a lot from it in performance, it is ak, back in cinemas now for a couple of weeks and then you can get it in dvd and download from the 20th. worth seeing, you love the trailer, right?— trailer, right? yes, and i liked parasite. _ trailer, right? yes, and i liked parasite, echoes _ trailer, right? yes, and i liked parasite, echoes and... - trailer, right? yes, and i liked parasite, echoes and... yes. i trailer, right? yes, and i liked - parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very — parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold. very chilly — parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very chilly and _ parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very chilly and not _ parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very chilly and not a - parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very chilly and not a lot - parasite, echoes and... yes. very cold, very chilly and not a lot of. cold, very chilly and not a lot of laughs! cold, very chilly and not a lot of lau~hs! . �* . cold, very chilly and not a lot of lau~hs! ., �*, ., �*, laughs! that's ok, that's ok, get to the cinema nevertheless. that is . the cinema nevertheless. that is what we like to see. thanks, mark. i hope you can start to enjoy some cinema going, wouldn't that be fantastic? thanks for watching. goodbye.

good evening. we have seen some sunshine around today, but a lot of cloud and low pressure has been sitting right on top of the uk. what changes into the weekend? that low pressure starts to pull away. we have of course seen some sunshine, as is always the case with showers in between and you can see here with suffolk earlier some lovely blue skies and we should see a bit more sunshine over the weekend with fewer showers, but it will start to feel fresher. there is a reason for that. we are losing the humidity that has been with us for much of the week. the heat has ebbed away, but it has got quite close out there. this has ebbed away across the north of scotland, the main ray ban here, but as this moves away the wind changes direction coming down from the north and north—west, so you can see that once ebbing away through saturday and more noticeable for sunday, actually. this is the latest satellite picture, lots of cloud,

these showers in parts of eastern england and eastern scotland are now thundery and for the next few hours more rumbles of thunder, particularly for east anglia and the east of england, possibly in northern ireland. through the night though should ease away and it becomes dry for most parts of northern scotland, whether the weather fronts still sits with us. through tonight humid air around, a warm night at 1a—16, through tonight humid air around, a warm night at 1a—16 , and quite misty, grey and murky, particularly in north—western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and scotland. any bits of morning fog billie fog should clear quickly and a bit of sunshine around with just a passing light shower. a few showers across northern ireland, but not as many as today and the south—east of scotland very not too badly. chan, but northern scotland continues to get a soaking from the weather front, which goes into saturday night and sunday starts to weaken away, so we will closely monitor the of rain. away from the high pressure

building is this area of low pressure with its attendant weather fronts pushing their way into south—western parts of england and across wales. certainly cloudier, some patchy rain and that might become more prevalent later. a little push down there in the south. a bit of patchy rain also because parts of northern england. it does look drier and brighter, though, for scotland and northern ireland, as you can see, but a bit fresher for most of us, the wind coming down from the north. then that rain is reluctant to move east and there is some debate about how far east it will come, it may go through western areas into the day on monday, ahead of its still dry, but quite a bit of cloud, not too bad for this time of year interpreters. the warnings are on the website and that is where you can keep up—to—date on all the latest weather information and how far this rain is likely to come.

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