hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'mjane hill, and taking us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. hi, mark. what have you been watching? it's quite an exciting week. we have everything everywhere all at once, which is a low—budget multi—res movie that is punching way above its weight. we have the quiet girl, which is a beautiful irish drama. and we have the drover�*s wife, a new take on an old tale. an interesting week! yes. so, let's start with everything everywhere all at once, which is basically giving doctor strange and the multi—verse of madness a run for its money.

michelle yeo is the chinese american women who dreamed of being a singer or a novelist or a chef or...but she has found herself in a life in which she's running a laundromat with her husband, with whom relations seem to be sort of rather stale. she's lost touch with her daughter, she's frightened of her father. jamie lee curtis is the tax inspector who is on their case and says that, you know, they haven't filled out their tax returns properly. so everything looks pretty mundane and drab. then suddenly, in a lift, her husband turns to her and says, "i'm not your husband, i am a version of your husband from another multi—verse, and i am here to tell you that there is an infinite number of multi—verses in which you can be anything you want, and there is more to life than taxes and laundry." here's a clip. go.

0h! i think they lost their...powers? so, part matrix, part martial arts movie, part in the mood for love. it's a film in which the multi—verse gives them the chance tojump across genres, as if you were sort of flicking through a series of different films.

it's got this incredibly complicated, extravagant plot, in which at one point, there's a world in which everybody has hot dogs for fingers. and yet, the reason it works is because all that stuff going on never takes your mind of the fact what it actually is about is down—to—earth issues. mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, the drudgery of ordinary life against the dreams that you once had, reconciling yourself with who you could have been, who you may have been, who you are, who you will be. this is made by the directing duo who made swiss army man, which was every bit as quirky, but i have to say nothing like as involving. this also cost around 25 million — i think, doctor strange cost 200 million upwards. and you go, ok, but this has 80 times as much wit — 80 times as much. and i quite liked doctor strange. but this is...it�*s doing something interesting with the multi—verse idea. great performances, and it's really nice to see something — it's a comparatively low—budget film really taking on the big

blockbusters, �*cause it's saying, look, the only way these stories work is if you care about the characters, if you believe in the characters, if you actually think "i've got something investing in those characters" and in these, you do, and it's an awful lot of fun. it's very funny, very exciting, very strange... and some of the bits i've seen, i feel like it's very inventive visually, perhaps not in that clip we showed there, but some of it really is. it really is, and while they're travelling through the multi—verses, the film really gives you — it's like a kind of frenzied adrenal rush — you get the sense of seeing something that you haven't seen before, and there are moments in it that are genuinelyjaw—dropping, but it works because you care about the characters and you understand that everybody is struck by the realisation that life is just a series of incoherent moments in which things only ever make sense momentarily, and i think it catches that precisely. isn't that true! the second choice, a quieter film, in a good way. yes, the quiet girl, which is an irish film from director colm bairead.

catherine clinch is a young girl, somewhat withdrawn, is sent to live with her relatives, because her mother has another baby on the way, too many mouths to feed, too many kids to deal with. so suddenly she finds herself with a couple that she doesn't know. and at first, they're slightly stand—offy with her. she's told there are no secrets in this house, but there clearly are. there's clearly some cloud hanging over them. gradually, everything starts to thaw and she starts to find out what it's like to be wanted and loved and looked after, and she starts to blossom, to see the world in a different way. and this sounds like such a sort of simple plot — it's beautiful, it's so well done. i mean, the quiet girl, she doesn't say that much. she speaks volumes with her face and with her gestures. i just loved this. i thought it was so moving, so touching. it reminded me... it captures the trauma and the joy of childhood. it deals with serious subjects —

love, death, life and the universe and everything, but it's so moving, it's so well done and i was just completely enchanted by it and i think you will love it. oh, i'm really intrigued and i'm really looking forward to it, yes. well, in that case, your homework, because i guarantee you, this is going to be best out next week, so...go and see it! that's my homework. i look forward to it. nice to have a good bit of homework. yes! and a really interesting choice for number three as well this week? yeah, the drover�*s wife, which is a film by leah purcell, who writes, directs, stars, does her own stunts. it's revisionist australian western, takes a famous tale about a woman looking after the homestead while her husband is off droving, and it turns that familiar tale completely on its head. here's a clip. myjoe be home soon. he's a drover, bringing sheep down from the high country. your children? what do you know of my children? i noticed the little stretch of beds by the wall, missus... _ they're none of your business. yes, boss. he's the boss. i'm just a drover's wife. but cross me and i'll kill you.

i'll shoot you where you stand and i'll bury you where you fall. yes, missus. thank you, missus. bury that deep. now, in this version of the story, that actually turns out to be the beginning of a partnership, of a friendship, and that character played by rob collins, who actually takes inspiration from the director and star's own grandfather — she said that what she did was she used the tale of the drover�*s wife, which is very, very well known in australia, and used it as a trojan horse to tell a different story, to tell a story of aboriginal heritage, to tell a different story about the relationship between characters and the land, to tell a different story of heroism. now, obviously, i know you've seen the film — it's tough. there are things in it that are brutal and difficult, but i think it's — the thing i like about it is, firstly, she's told this story many different ways, she told it as a stage show before and i think there's a —

she's written a version as well, and i think it has the sweep of a western, you get that real sense of the relationship between the land and the characters and the land, therefore, the heritage of the land. i think it's dramatically engaging, i do think that those characters are well played, i really liked the score, and don't know whether the score worked for you. i thought the score — a bit heavy on the guitar a couple of times, but i actually thought the score was really inventive. but i thought it was really well done, again, it's a kind of comparatively small movie. but what did you think? i loved her — i loved her, i loved the landscape, i...i weirdly enjoyed it, given that there's that element of threat right from the beginning in the sense that here is a woman just with her children in the middle of nowhere, and just that...that gun to protect her from anyone who might do them ill, and that...that is...that�*s tough to watch. but she's a fascinating character, and obviously, we don't want to give anything else away, but overall, i really enjoyed it. i did think a couple of the supporting characters, a little bit of some hokey acting in a couple of places —

not the two main ones that we've just seen on screen, but some of the others. it's not perfect. no, but it's engaging, it really holds your attention. and also, i think that when you're...when you're making a little movie like that, and it's something that needs to grab the audience's attention and to punch through, i think a little bit of, you know, it's melodramatic, it's clearly overwrought, but then, that's partly in keeping with the genre. and i actually thought it was a fairly confident bit of film—making, considering the complicated ideas that it's dealing with. i mean, i know it's got mixed reviews, but i've seen it a couple of times now, and i think it's pretty solid. mm. i definitely think it's worth watching and it's absolutely in my category of — enjoyed it so much more than i thought i was going to. excellent. and the landscape is just glorious, so... so, best out this week! this is the last time. i'm not going to do this anymore. and i've been flying the flag for this, 0k. so, casablanca beats, which is the moroccan oscar entry. here's the reason ijust want to flag this up, because this is a film with a positive message. this is a film about young people

finding their voice in difficult circumstances through music, through rap, and i think, particularly, now more than ever, it's really great to see a film that is not ashamed to be uplifting, it is a film that's not embarrassed about the fact that it's got... it kind of owes a debt to fairly mainstream american movies in some way. elements of fame almost in some of it, which i loved at the time! there are, absolutely! i still love fame. but there are, in some of those street scenes, they're exactly that. and yet, it's tough and it's gritty and it's real, and the people are playing characters very, very close to home, and it's a shot in an arts centre in which it's got a kind of verite feel to it. i think we could all do with a bit of uplifting, you know, punch—the—air drama at the end, and i think that's what you get from casablanca beats. so, you know — i promise, next week, quiet girl. oh, yeah. there's lots to commend it, definitely. and what about dvds this week? this is a theatrical reissue, ok. doberman, which is —

this is a french thriller from the late �*90s, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, which makes me feel like the oldest person on the planet. vincent cassel, monica belluci, tcheky karyo, big, brash, rocket launchers, explosions, cameras riding on bullets, car chases, motorbikes, thumping techno score. it's like, i mean, i'll be honest, i don't think it's your kind of movie. the reason i mention it is because it's very �*90s — it's very, very �*90s. it's like a kind of live—action cartoon. there is nothing about it which is understated. it's profoundly irresponsible and silly, but it's 25 years old and there is a chance to see it again. so, if you haven't seen it, it is the sort of thing — see it in a cinema, see it on a big screen. yes. i'm sticking with last week's reissue, which made us feel even older — cabaret! yeah, cabaret, which is still playing in some cinemas. if you haven't seen it on the big screen, do go and see it, because�*s that's one of the greatest movies ever made! cabaret, 50 years old. good to see you, mark. thank you very much. see you next week. enjoy your cinema going,

whatever you choose to go and see. see you next time. bye— bye. hello there. hasn't it been a glorious start to the weekend? hardly a cloud in the sky for many. lots of warm, spring sunshine but it was london that recorded the highest temperature, just shy of the warmest day so far with 23.5 celsius. but, i do need to draw your attention to this little feature running up through the south—west as we speak and it is going to continue to bring some sharp, possibly thundery downpours during the early hours of sunday morning. becoming more heavy and widespread to central and southern england towards dawn and yes, that means some welcome rain potentially for the gardens. but not all of us will see the showers but some of them could be potent. they will be running up through east anglia by the middle part of the morning and all the showers drifting steadily northwards. that means we should see an improving picture across england and wales into the afternoon with sunshine and warmth returning of

highs of 23 degrees. not a bad afternoon in western scotland if you dodge the showers and keep the sun as well. sunday night and into monday morning, showers and longer spells of rain merging together as this front enhances precipitation. we will see some wet weather drifting its way steadily northwards to begin with during monday morning and that means a tricky story to tell across northern ireland, northern england and scotland by the middle of monday afternoon. once again, an improving picture across england and wales after the early morning rain eases away and temperatures will recover. we could see 23 celsius again. another area of low pressure pushing in from the west, but as it bumps into the high sitting across europe, it looks likely that most of the rain will stay out into western areas and ahead of it it is going to throw up some warm and humid air, so there is the potential on tuesday for some of us to see the warmest day of the week with highs of 25

celsius. but, yes, out to the west, and the cloud and rain we are looking at mid to high teens. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday and through the middle part of the week, we see these where front starting to ease away and high pressure building in once again. there will be some outbreaks of rain to clear away but generally speaking through the middle part of the week, it looks likely to turn that little bit quieter and again, still pretty warm.

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