jessie buckley is harper. she's come out of an abusive relationship. she decides to go off to a country retreat to what she calls the "dream country house" with the emphasis on dream, because everything about what we're looking at tells us, you know, there's an apple tree outside from which apples fall. the grass is overly green. the house itself is kind of almost blood red. while she's there, she encounters a series of men. all of them are a bit creepy and all of them are played by rory kinnear. here's a clip. what is it? what's happened? what are you doing here? has it come back? why aren't you replying?

she gasps see, i could see you flinching. yeah, i shivered in that little bit! but i think that's great because i think what that means is that the film is achieving that kind of fairy tale ambience. i mean, obviously, you know, apple trees, there's the spectre of the green man. there's all these male characters played by the same person, which tells us something which is either that she is seeing all men as the same person or that all men are basically the same, which is essentially, you know, the message at the centre of the movie. the reason i liked it is this — firstly, i like the idea about adult fairy tales. i mean, the best fairy tales are scary. they are creepy. you know, when we were kids, we read

fairy tales because we liked that. this is an adult tale, but it is creepy. second thing is, jessie buckley is terrific. she always is. i've never seen a film in which she's bad. rory kinnear playing all the different men does manage to inject each one with a different ambience, but you get the idea that they are generically the same person. and then, in the third act, it goes completely insane. and as somebody who really likes — if i use the phrase cronenbergian body horror, does that make you want to see it or does that make you want to go and see something else? it makes me very much want to run in the other direction. 0k, well, if one is a fan of cronenberg body horror, and i understand that i'm not selling this to you very well, the last act is really fun because it's twisted and strange and, you know, kind of company of wolves and altered states and all that sort of stuff. and i really enjoyed just how far out there it's willing to be. i mean, it's not a film that's hedging its bets.

it's kind of ok, if you've come this far, let's just go the whole hog. and i enjoyed that very much. i also liked the sound. i think one of the reasons you're creeped out by that clip that we watched is the sound. i mean, the soundtrack is very, very eerie. and the colour and the lighting. yes. and the league of gentlemen—type of... yes. and funnily enough, i read one reviewer who said it's like the league of gentlemen, if it wasn't a comedy. although there is some sense — i mean, there is humour in there. i mean, it's very kind of wry and satirical. and the last movement, i suspect that you are not going to go and see men, but if anyone does — i do think that many people will — that last thought of it as a dyed in the wool horror fan, ijust thought, good, good, good to see somebody actually going for it and not going, "let's make this acceptable to the mainstream." let's just follow this story where it's going. maybe i would say this if i could guaranteed that it's still light when i came out of the cinema, which at the moment is easy to do, isn't it? it's not terrifying. it's just unsettling. it plays on my mind. yeah.

and it's meant to. and it's about maleness and that's kind of what it should be. i mean, it's, you know, it's unpleasant. next film, major. now, this is in the indian language of telugu. yeah. in fact, they've made it in more than one version for the maximum availability. biographical drama inspired by the real life story of sandeep unnikrishnan, who was awarded india's highest peacetime gallantry award following his actions during the november 2008 mumbai attacks, in which he rescued 14 hostages. it's a true story, although i have to say that watching the film, you think this is very definitely a movie version of a true story. essentially, major sandeep is played as a cross betweenjames bond and bruce willis in die hard. now, the strange thing about that is because the movie is, particularly in its final act, is very much an over cranked action movie and it's completely sort of unashamed of that's what it is. everything is done in very broad strokes. there is very little subtlety.

when the music starts, you know, starts really kicking in when everything's really sort of taking off, there is not an understated moment in it. that said, it's well done, it's efficient, it's very, very emotionally manipulative, and it is a film that is designed to stir the audience. but it is very, very... it's a movie as opposed to... i mean, there is a true story behind it. but this is the movie. yeah, of a national hero. bergman island — sweden. bergman island, only be one reference concept. so, bergman island is faroe. and this is made by mia hansen—love, tim roth and vicky krieps, who was so great in phantom thread play a film—making couple who go to stay on bergman island, in which you're surrounded by the ghost of bergman. there's 35—millimetre screenings of his films. there's a bergman safari in which you can go to all the places that bergman worked, and they've gone there for inspiration. but they have a relationship which appears to be showing bergman—esque cracks. here's a clip. how was it?

it was pretty good, actually. yeah. but i've been feeling a bit yuck since i got back. - why? what happened? it must be a burger. so, where were you? driving around. oh, yeah, driving around? i met a guy. oh, you met a guy? student. film student from stockholm. was he handsome, was he sexy? was he was brilliant _ when he talked about bergman? not like you. but his clumsiness has his charm. thanks. shut up. i think that's really cute. anyway, so there is sort of things about their relationship which don't quite gel. and then she starts saying to him, "look, i've got a script. "i can't find an ending to it. "can i ask you for your advice?" he says, "well, i'm sure i can't help, but go ahead." and she starts telling him the script for her movie about a doomed relationship. and then the film shifts into that

movie, which stars mia wasikowska. and what you get is these two stories inter—playing and a lot of discussion about whether or not you can separate bergman's personal life from his art and whether art can be separated from reality. the answer seems to be, no, it can't, all these things flow into each other. it sounds terribly pretentious. it isn't. it's actually really light and really sweet and romantic, and it's quite profound. but it features things like... it's got the most brilliant use of tina charles�*s i love to love of any film i've ever seen. it also features a brilliant sequence to abba's "the winner takes it all". so, it's a lot more charming than you would expect. and i think partly that's because vicki krieps does such a greatjob of bringing the audience in. partly, it's because the scenery is really fantastic. i mean, that's not the garden with the apple tree in the middle of the night, you know, this is beautiful to look at. but it's a film which is kind of multilayered and there's a lot going on, but it doesn't feel portentous and pretentious. and there's one lovely moment in which they're having a conversation about bergman,

everyone talking about bergman. and then somebody says, "yeah, we met bergman, he was horrible," which ijust thought was quite nice to see it. being able to sort of laugh at itself in that way. it does look very pretty. yes. and won't do the tourist board any harm in sweden. i just... the idea of a bergman safari... you would go on it! no, i wouldn't. how dare you! top gun: maverick. so much discussion this week from people who saw the first one, who haven't seen the first one. and should you see this? should you see this as a sequel after so long? well, did you see the first one? yes, idid. and i remember it very clearly, and i couldn't understand what it was, what all the fuss was about. there was so much... no, says the people in the gallery. there was so much swagger. i mean, iwas i7, and i thought, "what?" well, i wasn't a big fan of the first one because the first one felt very much like the kind of, "oh, yeah, here we go." you know, it's alljingoistic, flag waving and jets, and all that sort of stuff. this i went into thinking, "oh, you know, the sequel to the film

i didn't really want." it's fantastic. and i went in thinking, 0k, at the very best it will be ok. it's really, really exciting. and one of the things i loved about it was the flying sequences, which many of which are done for real, you know, with cameras on the planes actually flying around. if you see this on a massive screen with a massive sound system, you feel like you are being thrown around at mach io. tom cruise appears not to have aged one day since the original film. i mean, some people have said, oh, it's interesting because it's a film about ageing. no, it isn't. it's a film about not ageing. it's a film about apparently sleeping in a fridge because he looks exactly the same. but i thought it was really well done. and even if it sounds to me like you weren't wowed by the first one... no, i'll give this a whirl. you'll really enjoy it. you will really, really enjoy it. it's terrific fun. 0k. dvd or reissue, pickpocket. theatrical reissue, just very

briefly, the bfi are doing a bresson season which is called of sin and salvation the cinema of robert russell and the reissuing pickpocket from 1959, which is inspired by dostoevsky�*s crime and punishment. many people have seen it already. it's good to see it up on a big screen. werner herzog called it intense and beautiful, although being werner he would have said it was intense and beautiful! but also actually went french. there was my french werner herzog impression. paul schrader said it was as close to perfect as there can be. the bresson back catalogue is really interesting, but lovely to see a film like this being reissued. select cinemas. you have to seek it out, but it's worth doing. mark, thank you very much. that's it for this week, thanks for watching. see you next time, goodbye.

hello there. it was a soggy end to the weekend across england and wales in particular, but we start the new week off on a largely dry and settled note. increasing amounts of sunshine for monday and tuesday. it will start to turn wet though on wednesday, windier by the end of the week, but generally, temperatures will be around the seasonal average throughout the week, both by day and by night. so monday starts off rather cloudy, rather murky for england and wales, outbreaks of rain affecting eastern england and east anglia, fairly strong northerly winds which will clear away. then it's an improvement in the afternoon — we should start to see some sunshine breaking through that cloud for england and wales, could set off the odd shower. again, the best of the sunshine will be across scotland, where we could see 21 celsius. but even further south, given more sunshine around, we could make 18—20 celsius. as we head through monday night, could see this little feature bring some rain to southwest england through the channel, and spread its way eastwards. elsewhere, though, it should be largely dry — but across southeast scotland, northeast england, we'll see a return to some rain there. and we start tuesday off with double—figure values in the south, single values there for eastern scotland, northeast england. for tuesday, it's a bit of a similar story — we're in between weather systems,

so a largely calm day, i think. variable amounts of cloud to start the day, early rain in the south will clear away, and we should see the rain in southeast scotland, northeast england ease down, as well, into the afternoon. elsewhere, increasing amounts of sunshine — more for england and wales so it'll feel warmer. could set off the odd shower again, but most places dry, highs of 22 celsius. later in the day, we start to see some rain getting in towards the far southwest — that's because we've got this frontal system working its way in across the country as we head on into wednesday. now, some of this rain could be quite heavy, particularly for england and wales for a time, before it clears its way eastwards. winds more of a feature, as well, across the south of england, south wales, certainly through the channel. into the afternoon, it'll be one of sunshine and showers, and some of these showers will be heavy, perhaps slow—moving, as further north, those winds will be lighter — top temperatures, 16—20 celsius. that area of low pressure clears away, a brief ridge of high pressure to start thursday, but a deep low develops out in the atlantic, to the northwest of the uk later thursday into friday. that'll bring some very windy

weather to the north and the west of the uk in particular, and it's here where we'll have most of the showers or longer spells of rain. the further south and east that you are, although breezy, it should stay largely dry with some sunshine.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm arunoday mukharji. the headlines... cheering. the queen appears on the buckingham palace balcony to mark the end of platinum jubilee celebrations. the monarch says she has been "humbled and deeply touched". 10,000 people take part in a huge platinum pageant, featuring the performers and celebrities from each decade of the queen's reign. officials in bangladesh say exploding chemical containers are hampering efforts to extinguish a deadly fire at a storage depot. heavy fighting continues in eastern ukraine — as president putin threatens to attack new targets,

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