this is bbc world news, the headlines... hundreds of people have escaped the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol — but the red cross�* evacuation efforts have once again been frustrated. they are spending the night en route and will resume their journey tomorrow. emmanuel macron held held his first rally of his french election campaign. he told around thirty thousand supporters he's fighting for social progress and to stop �*extremism' in french politics. hollywood actor will smith has resigned from the oscars academy after slapping comedian chris rock on stage during last sunday's ceremony. the academy says it accepts smith's resignation and will continue with their own disciplinary proceedings. today marks forty years since since argentina invaded the falkland islands. tributes are being paid

to those who served and died in the british overseas territory. six—hundred—and—forty—nine argentinian troops, two—hundred—and—fifty—five british serviceman and three falkland islanders died in the conflict. now on bbc news...the film review with mark kermode hello, and a warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'mjane hill, and taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. hi, mark, what have you been watching? so we have true things, which is the new film by harry wootliff, who made only you. we have sonic the hedgehog two, which pretty much does what it says on the tin. and we have morbius, featuring the acting talents of mrjared leto.

so true things? yes, so this is the latest from harry wootliff. it's adapted from a book, true things about me, by deborah k davis. ruth wilson is kate, a 30—something woman working in a benefits office in ramsgate. her life seems to have stalled. she's kind of in danger of losing a job because she daydreams all the time. then into her office comes a mysterious, enigmatic character played by tom burke. here's a clip. so you've just been released from prison. can ijust check that your release date is 20 april, 2019 — is that correct? yep. had a small run—in with an - articulated lorry and a lamp post. can you confirm your marital status? married or single? single — very. oh, sorry, computer's going out.

computer's gone. erm, right, ok, so it usually takes about 3—5 weeks for a claim to be processed. and if you don't hear from us within that time, you can just contact us via phone or email. do you have any other questions? what are you doing for lunch? and that roguish charm that he exhibits there is kind of, in a way, central to the film, because he seems shifty, unreliable, and dangerous, but also has this magnetic feeling about him. so she goes to meet him — or he waits for her — and then they have an unexpectedly exciting encounter in a car park. and the next thing is she's addicted to him. she's kind of intoxicated by him. he's fantastically unreliable — he disappears, he comes back, he borrows her car, he goes away, she doesn't know where he is. all her friends and family say, "he's unreliable, stay away from him, he's bad news." but part of her longs for escape, and part of her longs

to find her new identity in this relationship. so harry wootliff, a brilliant film—maker, describes this as being a cautionary tale about "a destructive sexual relationship that is so familiar as to be almost a rite of passage". and she says that for her, the film is about the way that a woman can look to define herself through a relationship with others. but i think, watching this as a man, anybody who has ever sought self—assurance in the eyes of someone else, or has sought self—worth in an unworthy romance will recognise what's going on here. i thought this was really well done. i thought it had an underpinning of a psychological thriller. i mean, it feels dangerous. it's very tactile in the cinematography. i love the way the music kind of evokes the jittery state of mind that she has. and i also like the fact that it doesn't make her a victim. it makes her kind of an active

participant in something which is destructive, but it's also kind of driven by her own desire to escape. what did you think of it? as a woman watching it, it was a hard watch. i'll be honest, i was quite stressed for the whole thing, just thinking, "get away from him, he's trying to take advantage of you!" but it's that thing where it's so obvious to everybody watching, but not to the ruth wilson character. so it was a tough watch, which i think is interesting, given that it's a film made by a woman. i love the way it looked, actually — and it's interesting, you mentioned the cinematography there, we saw a few clips of it there, and i really liked that. it wasn't perhaps an easy watch, but it's brilliantly made. i mean, they are both fantastic. and i think that uneasiness is the point of it. it's not meant to be easy. it's meant to be that you're in very uncertain, unsafe territory. and as you say, you want her to retreat, but she doesn't want to go back to the life that she had. it's also worth saying —

without giving anything away — that the narrative arc does find her character developing. and also, i mean, ithink you know tom burke, who was so great injoanna hogg's the souvenir — i think here, he has a kind of oliver reed—like magnetism. but i think what ruth wilson is doing is brilliant, because so much of her performance is to do with just physical gestures. like even in that scene you saw where they were talking to each other — i think physically, it's a really well—observed film. yes, it's not the easiest watch, but yeah, it's interesting. and they're both terrific, absolutely — and that holds it, i think. yeah, terrific performances, and great use of soundtrack, as well. so, a much easier watch — sonic the hedgehog two. so you remember sonic the hedgehog, the first one, which was adapted from the sega video game — went on to become, i think, one of the biggest—selling video game movies of all time. so of course, we have a sequel. jim carrey�*s dr robotnik, at the beginning, he's on the mushroom planet — he escapes from the mushroom planet, he comes back to earth, this time with knuckles, voiced by idris elba.

and then it's pretty much more of the same. you have another character called tails, who has two tails and can fly, using them as rotor blades. i mean, the plot is essentially a video game plot. there's a map, a search, a compass, a maze, they've got to get an emerald. and then there's a sequence which is ripped off raiders of the lost ark, which they make a joke about the fact that it's very derivative. so it's kind of knowing. jim carrey�*s got that moustache that looks like it came off of kenneth branagh when he was doing murder on the orient express and death on the nile. and the weird thing about it is, whenjim carrey started his career, it was all big, gurning, over—the—top performances, you know, ace ventura: pet detective. and then he started making things like, you know, man on the moon and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. and now he's gone back to what he did originally, which was these kind of performances! and you canjust imagine them on set going, "jim, do you want to just tone it down a little bit?" "no, i want to do everything like this, because this is what i do!" i find that quite tiring.

but you know, it is what it is. the film should be 76 minutes long — it's way, way longer than that. and certainly, there's much too much of all this! but you know, it is what it is. it's not eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. jim carrey�*s in the room, people! morbius, tell us about that. he groans should we move on? no, no, we need to. so, jared leto, who incidentally won a razzie for house of gucci... in bad italian accent: "hey, hey!" so dr michael morbius, medical genius with a rare disorder which he manages to cure by using a serum made from vampire—ish bats. unfortunately, turns him into a ravenous bloodsucker. on the plus side, makes him feel fab. here's a clip. as a result of my procedure, i have an overpowering urge to consume blood. for the first time in my entire life, i feel good. yesterday, i can barely walk. today, i don't know what i'm capable of. i have the constitution

of olympic athlete. increased strength and speed that can only be described as superhuman. and all of this on artificial blood. i've become something different. and yet the movie has become something exactly the same. so he talks about the synthetic blood, so he's developed synthetic blood — however, his childhood friend, played by matt smith, gets hold of the serum and wants the real blood. and he becomes a proper running around, bitey—bitey vampire. and so that's basically the set—up. it's one of those films where, you know, it's a superhero movie which takes itself quite seriously. you heard there from jared leto, reading it like he's reading shakespeare. you want to go, "jared, it's a b—movie!" but it's got matt smith in it! matt smith is great. matt smith has a lot of fun, matt smith does the dancing around. so, matt smith does all the stuff that you want. meanwhile, jared leto is doing the, you know, "i'mjared leto,

and i'm just going to do this with my hair a little bit." and the film — unfortunately, every moment that matt smith isn't on screen, it's just the plodding jared leto thing. plus, every single idea in it... so when he takes the serum, he suddenly becomes very physically active — likejeff goldblum in the fly. there's the thing with the the blood transfusion, the vampire — like near dark, which is one of my favourite films of all time. there's a boat which is called the murnau — oh, now we're referring back to nosferatu. it's one of those movies in which every single idea has been done before better in a previous film. and i saw it in a paying screening, and there were about nine people in the screening. and the audience was notable for how quiet it was. and i don't think it was reverentially quiet. it was just like, "is this finished yet?" one of those — best out, however, lift our spirits? yes, so the worst person in the world. you know, i really, really liked it. great performance by renate reinsve, the third part ofjoachim trier�*s oslo trilogy — exploring "osloneliness", i just love that word.

you do like it, don't you? no, no, no, i do love it. but what's interesting, it's about ten days since i've seen it, and i'm still percolating things about it, and little flashes from the film keep coming back to me. and i think that's all a good thing. it's really funny — i really think that it's one of those movies that the further away from it you get, the better you realise it is. i've seen it a couple of times now, and the second time round, itjust felt like an even better—made film. i love the sequence when she runs through time stood still, which i think so perfectly encapsulates that kind of, you know, mad romance thing. i love the fact that it's got a really convincing break—up scene in it that i actually believed this was a couple who were actually breaking up! and didn't you think she was great? she is fantastic! and i was trying to describe the film earlier to someone, and found it a little bit tricky to do. but also, i think that's kind of a good thing, too. and i was saying how it's chopped up into these chapters, and they're all numbered in order,

and i thought that was going to make it a really tricky, tedious watch because you'd be counting them down. but actually, there's nothing tedious about it — it flies by. and the chapter thing makes it feel like a literary conceit — because it's12 chapters, with a prologue and epilogue. and you think at the beginning, "i'm going to have to count 12 chapters," but no, they fly by. and i think i think she's great. i think the way the music is used in it — again, because music is such a big part of cinema — i think is really well done. and the director described it as "a coming of age tale for adults who don't feel like they've grown up yet". and i think that's exactly what it is. and a very quick thought about an extraordinary reissue, i can't believe how old this film is. yeah, cries and whispers is 50 years old. the bfi are doing a liv ullmann season. so this is back in cinemas — you will be able to see it on the big screen, you may have to search it out, but it's really well worth seeing on a big screen. i'd only ever seen it before on a small screen, and it's really worth seeing projected as part of the bfi seasons in a number of cinemas. and it's a bergman film — so it's love, death, relationship, sisterhood,

a lot of existential angst and really remarkable. 50 years later, still worth seeing. thank you very much. thank you, and enjoy all your cinema—going, whatever you choose to watch this week. see you next time, thanks for being with us, bye—bye. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm gavin ramjaun. .. keeping the pressure on liverpool make it 10 wins in a row — as the battle at the top intensifies... christian eriksen continues his remarkable comeback. he scores for the third consecutive game in brentford's victory at chelsea. wales sink scotland in front of a record crowd in cardiff, to win back to back women's six nations matches. and their biggest challenge yet defending champions england prepare to face favourites australia, ahead of the women's cricket

world cup final. hello there — and welcome along to sportsday this saturday. the premier league is back, after the two week international break. we could be set for an exciting title run in — both liverpool and manchester city won today. city are still a point clear at the top — after their 2—0 win against burnley at turf moor.(oov)it was a comfortable return from the break for pep guardiola's side — kevin de bruyne�*s strike gave them the lead after just five minutes. ilkay gundogan added another twenty minutes later against a struggling burnley side that only registered one shot on target. what they have done in the past does not mean it will happen this time, no one knows, but it was nice, we had to play with a lot of pressure, because if we lose we are out. as simple as that.

so do whatever you want, but we are not going to win and every game is going to be like this. are games where you want to make 2a points, otherwise, we will not be champions. well before that — liverpool had moved above city — and gone top of the table, after beating watford 2—0 at anfield. we're set for an exciting showdown next weekend — when city and liverpool go head to head at the etihad. adam wild reports. before the game it felt like a parade. at anfield the passion always present. beneath the banners, a belief that this may be an extraordinary year. liverpool's potential quadruple, a stark counterpoint to the worry of watford, the scale of their ambition no greater than avoiding relegation and to have a chance they need to take chances like this. that difference in fortunes laid bare when just seconds later, diogo jota headed liverpool in front.