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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  April 16, 2022 3:45am-4:00am BST

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i may vomit with you. every piece of intelligence says the nazis are waiting for us in greece. and every piece of intelligence may be the greatest deception the nazis have ever played against it. . why do you think churchill. still believes this can work? because he has to. so, historic dramas based on what feel incredibly current at the moment, don't they, and my children, i know, have been intrigued by this story for years. does the film do justice to the facts? i think the level of detail is fascinating, and i think that's what i found the strongest element of this, is the detail that you see that they go into. there are a lot of scenes with two secretaries that helped out,
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played by penelope wilton and kelly macdonald, and the four of them have this wonderful repartee. there's a love triangle you don't need. i wasn't interested in that, but i think in terms of that detail, it's told in quite a safe, plodding fashion. there's a lot of fairly obvious exposition. it's quite reverent to the subject matter. but i think if you just want to know how the story played out, it's all in there. and politically, is it coming from one particular point of view? well, it's a very patriotic british film, i would say. this isjohn madden, who gave us shakespeare in love. i mean, the producers of the king's speech, it's that sort of flavour. i wouldn't say it's up there with those kind of awards—worthy films, but it's a very safe bet if you like this kind of subject. and i think he's playing to the right kind of crowd with this film. because we've seen the darkest hour. we saw the king's speech years ago. i mean, these these films can really take off, and it sounds like maybe this one doesn't quite. i think it will play well in certain cinemas. i think for an older crowd, i think it's got a lot of appeal. i certainly found it pleasant viewing, interesting viewing. i thought sometimes when it attempted comedy, it didn't quite
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work because it is tough subject matter to mine for comedy, but i think it's still a decent watch if you like the like the sound of it. and if you're a colin firth fan, of course, who is, well, who isn't? exactly. i'm definitely going to look this one up. thank you for that. let us move on now to something very different. the lost city with a bit of harry potter, a bit of brad pitt. yeah. so, that's daniel radcliffe is in this as a sort of megalomaniac billionaire. so, he kidnaps loretta, who's played by the wonderful sandra bullock. loretta is a romantic novelist. she's actually an academic, but she's sort of fallen on hard time and she's writing steamy novels, and she does these sort of public book launches with her cover model played by channing tatum, who's really sending himself up in. this is the handsome himbo, and they just at the end of a book launch when daniel radcliffe�*s character kidnaps loretta and takes her off to the jungle, where he thinks that she can help him find some hidden treasure. this is a classic kind of hidden treasure story. think of films like romancing the stone from the �*80s.
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this is the kind of flavour that we're looking at, something we haven't seen too much of until recently, and i actually think this genre is coming back, and i thoroughly enjoyed seeing these two actors, in particular channing tatum and sandra bullock, together, slightly flipping the gender dynamic that you normally saw in those films. i mean, he's very clearly smitten with her. she thinks he's not bright enough for her. she's the smarter one, but she's very, very willing to send herself up. and there's something about sandra bullock that's always so relatable and delightful and very finessed with the comic timing. and she is brilliant at what she does, but she is she being the character that we sort of know and love her for? yes. i mean, that's what we want sandra bullock to do. we want her to be intelligent but slightly ditzy. we want her to be the friend or the person that you want to hang out with and kind of... but also, she produces this film, and she makes sure that it does something a little bit sharper, a little bit different in terms of gender. and brad pitt? brad pitt is so worth seeing this film for and definitely hold
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on till the end credits watch the whole thing, but he plays the kind ofjack trainer. this kind of special ops kind of guru. because you see him with comedy so much, he's very good at when he does it. yeah. so i love to see him doing more, and he is indeed doing quite quite a bit more comedy. but definitely brad pitt steals the show. 0k. a bit of light relief. it's like we all need that. i think benedetta, this is very striking to look at visually, isn't it? it's a stunning looking film. it is hard to describe. it's from director paul verhoeven, who, of course, gave us basic instinct, showgirls and more recently, the rather more thoughtful film l. but he's kind of still known for those tawdry films. it's a french language film based on the true story and the book set in the 17th century italy. and it stars virginie figure as benedetta. now, she is a young girl who claims to have visions. she's very religious. she's devout. she's sent to a convent where she meets a young girl and they develop a controversial relationship. let's have a look at a clip.
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i mean, there were lots of controversial elements of blasphemy and sex and power. at what point does it tip into vulgarity, do you think? vulgarity, i think in the erotic scenes, perhaps it does, but very knowingly. i mean, paul verhoeven always has
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this tongue in his cheek. and you know, this is an element of satire and knowingness in this in how ridiculously over—the—top it is. i don't think anyone�*s expecting it to be fully, historically accurate. it's never dull. what i will say is it's never dull. i had some problems, problems with it. from a feminist perspective, i'm sure many religious people will have problems with it, but it is interesting film—making. is it going to be offensive? i think if you think it's going to be offensive to you, you'll know and you won't go to see it. i don't think anyone that goes to see this, knowing paul verhoeven and knowing what we've just seen is going to be surprised by what they see. they're going partly for shock value, but also charlotte rampling's in this. it's a great exploration of power dynamics as well. i mean, you know, i definitely have my issues with it, but still really glad i saw it. found it very entertaining. and i do think it's worth watching if you're interested in cinema. and also, that story. it does look, as i said, visually very, very stunning, doesn't it? another movie that we're coming onto, marina, also looks beautiful.
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i went to see this again last night in the cinema because i only ever seen it on the small screen and i wanted to see it on the big screen. it's set in croatia on the dalmatian coast and absolutely beautiful. this is like going on a holiday watching this film. you just remember what it's like to dive into the sea. absolutely stunning. i think i canjust about remember. yes, a long time ago for most of us. so, it's a lovely story of a young girl who's a teenager and she's living at home with her parents, not really getting on well with her father, when a friend of the family, played by cliff curtis, comes to stay. and an interesting dynamic, she observes the way he's interacting with her parents, and we see through her eyes herfinding out a little bit more about her parents' past and also becoming very intrigued by what she sees and perhaps intrigued by this man, thinking he's a very wealthy man. could he save herfrom the situation that she's in? but it's a young female director. it's also exec—produced by martin scorsese, and it's got a lot of weight behind it. i think it's a stunning calling card
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for this director and really beautiful film to watch. uncomfortable moments because you've got a young teenage girl with these two older men, a father and his friend. does it cross a line? it stays the right side, i think. and as i say, having a female gaze and the female director, it's very sympathetic towards her and it's never looking at her through their eyes. we're seeing the world through her eyes and she's trying to figure herself out. but she's got quite a lot of agency and is getting more and more as the film carries on. it's emotionally intriguing. and emotionally intriguing. it's like almost like a mystery thriller drama of a woman trying to operate in a patriarchal society, but also kind of having more opportunities than her mother did. so it's fascinating. definitely one. again, i am very keen to go and see — flea. now i've heard amazing things about this. thi movie's a fantastic film. many people will have seen it already, but it's out on dvd now, so worth revisiting. it was nominated for three oscars, which actually was ground—breaking
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at the time because for doc animated and internationalfilm and it's mostly animated and it's a man narrating the story, a very emotional story about the fact that he was a refugee when he was a child from afghanistan, and he's now living in denmark, and he's about to get married, and he's telling his friend, the director, what he experienced, and the emotion in his voice as he retells his story is extraordinary. and the animation really, really brings it to life beautifully with some other voice cast members. and i think it's testament to the power of the imagination and the power of the animation as well. when i look back and i remember this film the first time i saw it, i was almost seeing it in live action in my mind because it was so vivid and so personal. and it really puts you in this man's shoes. which is maybe you can do because it is animation. yes, it allows you to do things you couldn't do with live action. and again, many people might want to see this because of the timing. we've had this big uk government announcement on on sending refugees to rwanda. we've got ukraine, obviously refugees flooding through through europe. but if you want to try and understand what it feels like, this is one to watch, although it's probably quite painful and difficult as well. it's harrowing in parts,
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but it feels like something we should all see. it's a timely watch. indeed, i agree. 0k. a really amazing mix of movies, anna. thank you so much for drawing that all together for us and do. tune in for more next time. thanks for watching. bye— bye. hello. the uk may have recorded its highest temperature of the year so far on good friday, in the sunshine in london. but actually, across much of the north and west of the uk, it was quite a cloudy start to the long holiday weekend. it was eastern and south east england that saw most of the sunshine — and for the record, 23.1; celsius was that temperature in central london. to prove the point, the satellite picture showing all the cloud on good friday in the north and west —— now the rule of thumb for saturday's weather is where you're so cloudy, it'll be brighter and warmer, and where you saw the sunshine on good friday, saturday will be just as sunny —— and where you get the sunshine, it will feel warmer. temperatures to start the day, no frost, nor will there be
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for the rest of the weekend. there will early on be quite a bit of cloud towards the north and west, and through much of wales and south west england — it's misty, low cloud, but on through the day, notice how a lot of this disappears, it breaks up, we see the sunshine coming through. could stay rather cloudy in the northern isles, especially shetland, towards the coast of aberdeenshire, misty in places and some of the coasts around cornwall as well. it's a warmer—feeling today more widely across the uk with that sunshine. it's a sunnier day in northern ireland, too — though cloud increasing will start to bring some outbreaks of rain very slowly in from the west, as we go on through the night into easter sunday morning, also pushing into parts of western scotland, especially the western isles. elsewhere, 1—2 mist and fog patches, but a recently mild start to easter sunday. and there's a weather front trying to come in on sunday still to some degree being held at bay by this area of high pressure. so, while much of the uk will stay dry, we will see some outbreaks of rain covering more of northern ireland very slowly on through the day, and parts of western scotland, especially into the west isles
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and then, later on, some of this rain would just feed in towards western counties of wales and the far south west of england. whereas elsewhere, you continue with another day of warm, sunny spells. it will feel cooler, where you have the rain, it'll be windier, too, and the weather fronts with, well, weakening rain will move through as we go into easter monday. behind that, you get some sunny spells. it'll feel cooler and, then, another spell of rain looks to be heading into northern ireland and into western, especially north west scotland, during monday. and with that, there'll be a strengthening wind. the western isles could well see some gales gusts 50 mph or more on easter monday. sunny spells, yes, dry for many, but it will feel cooler by then.
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