forget to buy one in papers, don't forget to buy one in the morning or subscribe to one if you are digitally minded. coming up next, time for the film review. thank you, and on. that night, everybody. —— thank you, and emma. hello, and a very warm welcome again to the film review on bbc news and, as you see, taking us through this week's releases, mark kermode is back. what have you been watching, mark? something for everyone. we have c'mon c'mon, which is the new film starring joaquin phoenix. we have encounter, in which riz ahmed struggles to save his kids from alien invaders. and silent night — a very unhappy christmas. the christmas films are here already.

they are. let's start with c'mon c'mon. ok, so this is directed by mike mills — he made 20th century women. story isjoaquin phoenix and gaby hoffmann are brother and sister. they have been estranged since the death of their mother. she is called away to deal with her partner's mental health problem. she has a young son, jesse, who's intelligent, but very demanding. talks all the time, loves to role—play, which is something he's got down pat with his mum, something which his uncle is not yet used to. here's a clip. so should i call you, like, poppa or dad orjustjohnny? you can call me whatever feels comfortable to you. i don't know, it'sjust — i'm not used to being able to choose. maybe we can just take this process slowly and see how it feels. - mm—hmm, yeah. i'm just really sorry that your children died. um, you know, i don'tl think i can do that part.

yeah, i told you that's how me and mom do it. if it makes sense for your mom to do that, that's cool, - but it doesn't make sense to me, and that's what i was _ explaining to you. why doesn't it make sense for you? because it's ridiculous. isit...? it's sad. the question is why i do you want to do it? you are just terrible at this. the whole film's got that kind of, you know, slightly low—key, slightly mumblecore feel about it. that feels like it's improvised. it does, absolutely, and kind of beautifully shot, but also unobtrusive. what happens is ok, at the beginning, they're chalk and cheese. obviously during the course of the movie, they will find a bond, a relationship. he takes him to new york. there is quite a lot of them walking around new york that has a similar feel to something like manhattan, that kind of... they're talking about everything, but they're talking about nothing. and the weird thing about the film

is it's got this kind of cumulative effect, these incidental scenes, none of which appear to be about very much all add up to something which feels kind of profound. it's a lovely performance byjoaquin phoenix and of course and you think very recently he was winning awards forjoker, which was a very big performance! yes! 0h, frightened me to death! yeah! but this is kind of like completely the other way. yes. everything very, very low—key, everything feels very, very naturalistic. lovely use of music. there's an original score by aaron and bryce dessner. and then they've got things like the san francisco saxophone quartet playing clair de lune, which sounds like it shouldn't work and yet, somehow, when used in the right context, it's rather beautiful. i mean, it's very touching, it feels very incidental, but i... you come away from it feeling like 0k, humanity is basically good, which i think is a good thing. i liked it a lot. i was very, very charmed by it. well, we could do with that! we could do with that. people will watch and say, "why the black and white?" because it's an aesthetic decision that makes it

look slightly distanced. it also gives it a — i know some people have sniffed at it. some people have said "oh, well, itjust makes it look arty". i actually think it works quite well. i mean, here's the other question — why not black and white? why should colour be the default? if that's the register the director wants to shoot it in, you know, do it in black and white. it looks lovely. yeah. 0k! well, interesting! your second choice for this week? encounter. so riz ahmed, who is brilliant in everything, is a decorated marine, hadn't seen his boys for a couple of years. he suddenly turns up in the middle of the night and says he is taking them on a road trip. then he says it is not a road trip, it's a rescue mission. he is a decorated marine who is now working on a mission because the earth has been invaded by extra terrestrial spores that are getting inside people, they get into the bloodstream, they take over the hosts and they turn people into basically it's like invasion of the body snatchers. but the film is a cross between invasion of the body snatchers and a psychological film about father and sons and there's also a family road trip in there and, at times, it's an adventure movie. it is written by...

joe barton did the original script and then michael pearce, who made beast, did work with him on it and directed it. the really smart thing about it is it starts out like a m night shyamalan movie and then, about half—an—hour through, you think "no, this is a movie about family. "this is a movie about his relationship with his sons. own relationship with the world." and there's a film by william friedkin — which i'm sure you have not seen because nobody�*s seen it — called bug and it's based on a tracy letts play and it is brilliant, and this owes a great debt to bug, which, again, is a film about ideas getting under your skin and the whole idea of an extra terrestrial invasion that spores, that get into your bloodstream, and the paranoia that that would induce... i think, i think it's really remarkable, and riz ahmed is just great. there is nothing he can't do. well, he's so talented. he is so talented. really smart. i don't know — this is worthy of his talents, is it? yes, it is, absolutely. incidentally, he has that short film, the long goodbye, which i think is now eligible for an oscar, so very soon, ithink, yeah. i mean, he's great, he'sjust great and this is very, very good. it's a very good film.

encounter is well worth seeing. the only thing i'd say is don't find out too much about it before you see it. 0k, well, that's always a good tip, if that's the case. and the christmas film. mark sighs. it is december, gotta have a christmas film. ok, but this is... it is a christmas film and it isn't. it starts out michael buble, a bunch of poshos arriving at a country house where they're all gonna have christmas together. they've got their kids, but something is out of whack. the kids are swearing in a way that kids would not do, they are all telling each other stories that you would not expect them to and they are starting to behave like there is no tomorrow. here's a clip. simon. sure. um, where to start? er... god? god, yes, dear god, - may we thank you for... ..my wife's culinary talents. also an important...ah... um... for our beautiful friends? yes. for our beautiful children. um, for the food on our table. for, er, the lives that we've shared.

for...? 0h! for...uh... ..the promise of love. and happiness! and health! and safety — health and safety. in your beautiful — really beautiful... fun! let's not forget how much fun it's gonna be up there! in yourfun, beautiful, safe...! kingdom. amen. let's eat! right. crack on, everyone. ooh, i'm not sure i want to be at that dinner party! no, but here's the thing — keira knightley has the right register, fun! fun! everything's tracking because the end of the world is coming. now, here's the thing — the writer and director said that they were inspired by partly when the wind blows — you know, the adaptation of the raymond briggs�* novel. also partly because her kids came back from seeing war horse and said, "what would we do in that circumstance?" so it starts out like a christmas movie, but it's the christmas

movie goes to hell. and it sounds like an interesting idea. i have to say for me, it did not work and it doesn't work for two reasons. the first one is that for the first part of it when it is a comedy with irritating poshos, i did not find them funny and i did not believe in them. and the second part of it, when it becomes the kind of apocalypse movie in which it is dealing with a lot of very dark material, it didn't feel earned. it felt like because i don't believe in these characters and because you are still doing the knockabout comedy stuff, none of this is earned. now, that said, i know some people who thought "oh, "this is great," you know? "it's like an acerbic christmas" — i like an acerbic christmas film. i like, you know, silent night, deadly night. i like gremlins. there's that joke about, you know, christmas slay — he knows if you've been bad or good and he's got an axe. all that stuff is fine. the problem with this is it doesn't know how to do the balance between the comic and the horrific. so it's an interesting idea, but it... for me, it doesn't work. others think differently, but i've watched it twice now and both times, it didn't work. ok, so, yeah, twice is enough, by the sounds of what you're saying.

i gave it a fair run. you did, you absolutely did. best out? yeah, so petit maman — so you've now seen it. please tell me that you love it above all things. oh, oh, i loved it. i loved it. and do you — but what's so interesting is, i mean, it's really... it's slight — and i don't mean that in a demeaning way. 72 minutes long. it's slight and it's so short and actually, i wanted more. when it ended, i thought "oh, no, no, no!" "i want it to be a little bit longer!" but the reason it is perfect is exactly that — it leaves you wanting more. it tells you, in those 72 minutes, more, ithink, about life, the world, parents, children. i mean, on the one hand it is a fairytale. it's a, you know, what's actually happened? is it a time—travelling movie? yes. is it a ghost story? on the other hand, it's a story about a child dealing with grief. and it's... ithought it, i mean, ijust love... i think this is my favourite film of this year and i think celine sciamma is my favourite director. you're going to work your way through her back catalogue? oh, i'm absolutely determined now. i thought it was beautifully made. the two little girls in it are extraordinary.

genius. she is so clever with child actors. and it looks beautiful — wistful, but in a very gentle way. i think it is about children dealing with grief — that was perhaps the main thing i took away from it — but there is a lot to absorb. and i noticed everyone in the cinema just sat and watched all of the credits roll because i think we were alljust thinking and thinking about that and absorbing it all. and there's that wonderful use of that tune at the very end — the kind of, the kids anthem, which is just overwhelmingly great. i mean, there is nothing wrong with this film. it is as near to a perfect film as i have ever seen and i, i really... i'm so glad you loved it... i loved it, i loved it. ..because otherwise, we would've had to stop doing this programme. chuckles. quick final thoughts about dvd or streaming? on dvd, candyman, the new version of candyman, 2021 reboot. the original was based on clive barker's short story, the forgotten. this one is produced and co—written byjordan peele and it takes an old horror text and does something new and inventive with it and i really liked it. lovely! well, good. that means... but not as much as petit maman. laughs. and the good news is we can be

back together next week. thank you very much, mark, as ever, and enjoy your cinema—going, whatever you choose to see. see you next time. bye— bye. hello there. it was cold over the weekend. some areas saw quite a bit of rain, and we had some snow over northern hills. similar story as we start the new week. we've got a frontal system working its way in from the atlantic. that's going to bring another round of rain and hill snow. you can see it here showing up on that pressure chart. it will be very wet across northern ireland, parts of scotland, western england and wales to start this morning. quite quickly, though, it will brighten up across northern ireland with sunshine and showers. this band of rain will continue its journey eastwards through the day, eventually crossing most of england. we will see some snow over the pennines as well. there could be a bit of a hang back with the rain for east anglia in the far southeast, otherwise, it brightens up for many of us with some good spells of sunshine. most of the showers will be in the north and the west, some of these heavy and frequent, and there will be some wintriness over the high ground.

a cold day to come, we could see nine or ten celsius in the far southwest. it stays breezy with blustery showers, wintry on the hills through monday night. and then it turns a little bit drier, but clear and cold for many of us. and then in the southwest, we start to see an area of wet and very windy weather pushing up across ireland and then into irish sea coasts. now, it's all tied in with this — the second named storm of the season, named storm barra by the irish met service, because it's ireland that will see the biggest impact from this storm through the course of tuesday. but across the rest of the uk, we will see gusts widely 50mph, more than that near exposed coasts in the south and the west. that mized in with the heavy rain and also some hill snow is likely to cause some disruption, even some damage. so, it starts very wet, very windy indeed across western areas, damaging gusts of wind. this area of rain pushes eastwards into the cold air, so likely to see some significant snow over the annines, certainly across the scottish hills. some of this rain really will be quite heavy, so a pretty atrocious looking day, i think, for tuesday. stay tuned to the forecast,

details may change. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, storm barra begins to weaken and sit across the uk, we think, as it does weaken. still will be quite a windy day on wednesday, not as windy as tuesday, but a blustery one nonetheless with showers or longer spells of rain. these will be wintry over the high ground as the air stays cold, and we will see gales across southwestern areas too, and it's going to feel chilly, those temperatures in single digits across the board.

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