hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'mjane hill, and to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode, as ever. hi again, mark. what have you been watching? very mixed bag. we have death on the nile. hercule poirot and his moustache are back. we have an animated documentary, flee. and marry me — what happens when a pop star marries a fan? death on the nile. kenneth branagh's been busy. he has. this was shot in 2019, and it's been delayed because of covid. and then, of course, belfast has come out, done incredibly well with audiences and done incredibly well with awards voters, so it's a bit odd this is coming out now. it's directed by branagh, it stars branagh as hercule poirot.

the story is, he's on the nile, there's a steamer. it is full of a variety show cast list of people, all of whom will either be victims or suspects at some point. lot of glitz, lot of glamour. here's a clip. # shout, sister, shout # tell the whole world what it's all about # there's a reason for a mountain # a reason for a hill why a doctor gives a patient a pill # a reason to stand, a reason to sing # but there ain't no reason why a man can't swing...# we have the karnak all to ourselves until abu simbel. don't worry about your things. darling louise, will go back and pack up all your rooms

for you and meet us. happy to, miss. we have a piano tuned, a chef stolen from shepherds of cairo and enough champagne to fill the nile! and it is very much that kind of, "enough champagne to fill the nile!" and then a whole bunch of celebrities and death and murder and hercule poirot, with his moustache. now, interestingly, in this, hercule poirot�*s moustache get its own backstory. there is literally a whole thing about where that moustache came from. it becomes very important about him being somebody who's hiding behind a mask because of stuff that's in his past. that should be a twitter handle! poirot�*s moustache? i am sure it probably is already. here's the thing with this. you said when you were watching that clip, "it looks very star—studded and glittery" — that is what it is. it's also pretty creaky. i mean, the murder mystery isn't very mysterious, and it feels kind of very mechanical. it's happening on this big steamer with these big paddles going around, and that kind of feels like a metaphor for the film—making itself. it's fine, it's not going to surprise anybody. you go to see this movie, you know what you're going to get. perhaps the stuff about the tragedy

that lies behind the moustache may be something that surprises some people. great cast, looks all right. never convinced in terms of it being a gripping whodunit, cos it's like, "well, who really cares?" i'm here for the glitter. i'm here for "enough champagne to fill the nile!" it's fine. it's not belfast. and the thing with belfast is belfast feels personal, belfast feels vibrant and like, "i really wanted to tell this story." this one, not so much, but it is what it is. a bit of escapist glamour and perhaps not much more. yeah, no, not much more at all. however, flee. now, you've seen flee. loved it! 0k, animated documentary byjonas poher rasmussen, and it's a documentary about somebody that he has known since 15 — they met in middle school — called amin here. but that's a pseudonym to protect his identity. he came from afghanistan to denmark. his backstory was always shrouded in mystery, and rasmussen wanted to do a radio documentary about him. he said, "i'm not ready to do it." but then when he started discussing

the animated documentary, he realised that he could tell his story and still retain his anonymity, and what we see is a story about somebody growing up and all the wonderful things about being a child, but then the mujahideen, then having to flee via moscow, further on then becoming involved in a terrifying human trafficking story which is about cargo containers and boats and visions of drowning. and as the story goes from being realist to nightmarish, so the animation reflects that in the way that it changes. i thought this was really powerful, but the main reason i thought it was powerful was because along with that horrifying story, firstly, you're hearing somebody telling this story for the first time, but also it's really a coming—of—age story, a coming—out story. and amidst all of the terror and the horror in the tragedy, there is real warmth and wit and "a—ha!" — i thought it was really moving. did you like it?

incredibly moving, very powerful. and no—one should look at it and think, "oh, it's animation, why do i want to watch animation?" i think the story actually would've been unbearable... we should all know this story — we do stories all the time in news about human trafficking — but the animation means you can just about cope with the horror of what he went through. i don't want to do any plot spoilers, but it was absolutely gripping. my attention was completely gripped. it's only an hour and a half, and your heart's just turning and turning, your stomach's turning, because it's horrific. and the references to the people—traffickers are, obviously, the most troubling, disturbing elements of it. and also to the russian police, who don't come out of it well either! but i think it is really interesting that a story dealing with such dark material can be so uplifting in the end, cos it is... the message of the story is to accept the future, you have to... deal with your past, yes.

and i thought, you hear in those interviews, you hear somebody dealing with the past. it's almost like a therapy session. actually, yes, and because the two men are such old friends, the central character is now 36 and, we are told, has a very successful career in denmark. we don't know who he is, quite rightly, and there are flashes of humour. i mean, you couldn't get through it if there weren't. and that's lovely. there's a lovely detail when he's young and looking at a poster ofjean—claude van damme, and thinking, "there's something going on here, but i'm not quite sure what it is!", which is a really lovely detail. beautiful. really well—made, i thought. anyway, from the sublime to the ridiculous, marry me. now, have you ever wondered what notting hill would be like if you took away hugh grant and julia roberts and replaced them withjennifer lopez and owen wilson? not really! no, neither had i. and yet, weirdly, now we know. so, the story isjennifer lopez is going to get married onstage to her celebrity boyfriend. just before she goes onstage,

she finds out he's been cheating. so, she's on stage — as a character, not as herself — and she decides to marry somebody in the audience. don't take my word for it — look, here it is! they say if you want something different, you have to do something different. so, this time, for the first time, you make a different choice. you jump off a cliff so high, you can't even see the fall. and you just... ..say yes. sure. i'll marry you. you! gasps. now, ijust wish the viewers had been witness to your reaction to that clip, and incidentally that's one of the better moments in the film! oh, lordy! i was sitting there going, "ok,

i know it's based on a graphic novel and i can see it's a rom—com, so, ok, fine, liberties," but it's rubbish. it's utter rubbish! not least because wilson spends the whole movie doing this, "i'm just being mopey!", like owen wilson. and then it's, ok, so he's a mopey maths teacher, but actually that's so much better than the life of celebrity. none of this makes any sense. i don't believe in any of these people. there's no chemistry between them. i don't believe in anything at all, which would be fine if i was laughing and if i was watching i think there's a lot of things wrong with notting hill — i don't care, it's a lovely, funny film! this is absolute rubbish. and i've been quite surprised — the reviews have been, "well, it's not citizen kane, but it's all right!" no, it's not! it's terrible! it says something about the levels to which we've descended that this is all right. this isn't all right! people have been starved for cinema... between this and moonfall... moonfall, every time! i refer you to last week's episode. yes. so, best out?

well, ok, the souvenir part ii... joanna hogg film. you've seen it? yes, seen both. 0k. did you...? i really enjoyed this. there's a section towards the end which i didn't fully understand. and i genuinely think i need to rewatch that section, about her graduation... oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. ..but broadly, i really, really enjoyed it, and i really enjoyed it much more even than the first part. great. so, the first part is still available on bbc iplayer, and so if you're going to go and see the souvenir part ii, you do have to have seen the souvenir part i. it would not make any sense if you haven't seen the first one. the first one is a stand—alone movie, the second is not. i thought it was great. i know exactly what you're talking about, about... you see a film being made, and then the film that you see isn't that, but it's to do with the artistic licence, and what i love about it is it's deeply personal. it'sjoanna hogg making a film which is semi—autobiographical. i mean, more fiction in this than there was in the first film. but terrific performances. i mean, nobody makes films likejoanna hogg. you can watch two seconds of this, and you know that this is a joanna hogg film.

and i loved it. and there's something very touching about it. i know it can get criticised, people say it's achingly middle—class, and some people have a problem with that, but this is about the central character coming to terms with a traumatic death of her boyfriend. yes! so, that's the fundamental thing through it, and i it was examined really, really cleverly. i think you should be in this chair and i should be there, and you should be doing this. because, no, that is exactly right, that is exactly what it is. and worth saying that it's a film — in that thing about the middle—class — it's going, "these are the people, this is what they are." it's not making any apologies for them. this is what they are. and i think it's terrific. yes, really terrific. dvd? the story of film: a new generation, which is mark cousins�* ramble through the history of film, which has now been updated. also worth mentioning, i mentioned to bbc iplayer before, if you go to bbc iplayer, the secrets of cinema that i did is also on there! more film history than you can wave a stick at. it's all worth checking out. and i've always said film

history is a thrillingly interesting subject. dive into it. there are many resources for doing so nowadays. yes. well, you can never have too much! you can never have too much film history. you can have too much of marry me. i don't think i'm even going to have 15 minutes of marry me. please see moonfall! moonfall is so much better than marry me! also going on the poster. thank you very much, mark. see you next week. enjoy your cinema going, whatever you are brave enough to see. there's...interesting choices there! see you next time. bye— bye. hello. there is more wind and rain in the forecast, not only for the rest of the weekend, but indeed throughout the coming week. sunday looks like this. heavy rain affecting many parts of the uk, windy weather across the south, lighter winds further north. but on the satellite picture, you can see this shield of cloud racing in from the atlantic. this will bring wet weather to start sunday across western england, wales. the rain quickly getting into northern ireland,

northern england and up into southern scotland as well. for east anglia and the south east, the day will start off on a dry note, but rain will arrive here through the afternoon. northern scotland likely to stay mostly dry with some spells of sunshine and just the odd shower, and slightly drier conditions could develop in northern ireland through the afternoon. the winds across northern areas are relatively light. southern areas, brisk winds. those are the average wind speeds. the gusts could touch 50 mph for english channel coasts. but it will be relatively mild, 7—ii degrees. a very, very soggy sunday evening across east wales, central and eastern parts of england. that rain taking a long time to clear away. some drier conditions will develop out west, but with some showers. a fairly brisk northerly breeze, but i think given the strength of the breeze, it's not going to be a particularly cold night. but low pressure will still be close by into monday morning. showers circulating around that low, some brisk winds. just a little bump in the isobars, a ridge of high pressure just trying to drive things out as it topples in from the west. so, we will see some early rain

across southern parts. that will clear to a mix of sunshine and showers. some of those showers wintry in scotland, especially over high ground, potentially even to lower levels. feeling relatively chilly, i think, on monday given the strength of the breeze. top temperatures between 6—10 degrees. into tuesday, we see another band of rain pushing in from the west, some snow for a time across high ground is scotland and some wintry showers following on behind with some sunny spells in between. top temperatures on tuesday between 6—11 degrees. it is going to be another windy day, but those winds could well step up a gear as we move into wednesday thanks to this deepening area of low pressure. lots and lots of white lines on the chart here, lots of isobars squeezing together. while the details of this forecast will change, it does look like we could see gales or severe gales in places on wednesday with some heavy bursts of rain. but it will be really mild for a time, turning chillier towards the end of the week.

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