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with great incompetence. i heard with great regret from climate change conference today that very little has been achieved for the a course he wore in ukraine has changed the game considerably. there does seem to be a severe lack of motivation from many nations to do something about this. there's a sense that well, we must put our economy first before the future of the planet. part of me understands that. there's going to be no economy to pattern to it were not very careful because we will have destroyed everything. hearing somebody by president trump say climate change doesn't exist, the chinese invented it, were going to withdraw from the paris agreement, i don't know much of it makes me tear my hair out. —— i don't have a chair. they will be nothing for business to work out if we do not tackle climate change. briefly, your thoughts on this. i think it's obviously an issue on peoples — think it's obviously an issue on peoples minds but most is the cost
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of living _ peoples minds but most is the cost of living. things like green levees on electricity bills, they are at the forefront at the peoples minds, and he _ the forefront at the peoples minds, and he pumps a very expensive or an electric— and he pumps a very expensive or an electric car can be expensive to put be cost _ electric car can be expensive to put be cost effective ways for people to make _ be cost effective ways for people to make these choices, especially in the circumstances we are living at the circumstances we are living at the moment. long term it will be cheaper— the moment. long term it will be cheaper but the short term, people don't _ cheaper but the short term, people don't want — cheaper but the short term, people don't want to tip their pockets. thank— don't want to tip their pockets. thank you _ don't want to tip their pockets. thank you both for a really interesting this —— and on a whole range of topics we will have to leave it there. a big thank you to our brilliant reviewers. a big thank you to our brilliant reviewers. that's it for the papers — thank you james rampton and geri scott. goodbye for now.
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hello and a very warm welcome to this week's film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases we have, as ever, mark kermode. mark, what delights have you been sampling this week? a very mixed bag this week. we have good luck to you, leo grande, starring emma thompson. we have the new francois ozon film, everything went fine. and lightyear, the ultimate origin story, apparently. good luck to you, leo grande, this had a lot of advance publicity because emma thompson has been talking about body image in the media a lot. yes. there has been a lot of press about it. she stars as a widowed former religious studies teacher who's only intimate encounter in her whole life has been her husband and apparently very mundane and vanilla. she's now single, widowed. and she's decided she wants to find out what all the fuss is about. she makes a list of stuff that she wants to do and being practical to the point
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of being brewed, she books a hotel room and hires an escort in the form of leo grande. here is a clip. you don't have to worry. this is just the two of us tonight. so, what is your fantasy? i'm not sure you could really class it as a fantasy, - it's a bit mundane for that. 0k, well, what would you most desire? desires are never mundane. to have sex. ..tonight with you. that's about it, - really, for the moment. she's very good in this, isn't she? i think emma thonpson is good in almost everything. it's directed by sophie hyde, written by katy brand. let's do all the positives first. the script is often very funny and both of those performers are terrific and they are welljudge performances because it's a balance between the poignant and comedic and they get itjust right and it's
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like watching two performances at the top of their game. you go. "great." the film is about a subject which let's be honest, cinema in general and british cinema in particular is considered to be taboo. cinema worries about actually talking about intimacy. on the downside, it's somewhat stagey. it plays out as a series of chaptered encounters in the same hotel room, except for in the very end. and i can almost imagine it as being like a two—handed play. it's also performative. leo is playing a role because he's a giggilo, he's an escort, a sex worker, so he's playing the role but we are watching two very accomplished actors playing roles and i never quite forgot that that's what we are watching. if you compare this with a film like the mother, that had a much more convincing set of characters. i did really believe with those people. it's very funny. it's nicely to be unabashed.
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it's dealing with a subject it which is often taboo. intimacy and british cinema don't often go hand—in—hand and they are great performances. i wished that i believed in them more as their characters rather than as very fine actors doing very good performances with a sharp, witty script but i wanted to believe a little bit more. interesting in the context of older actresses saying it's harder for them to get film roles. the thing is, there is absolutely no question that anything that deals with intimacy, with anyone other than young, fabulous looking people is something that cinema has traditionally shied away from. and this is therefore, moving things forward because what it's doing is a subject that cinema has considered taboo and i think that's great and to be praised, ijust wished that i bought into the film more than i did. 0k. everything went fine,
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which is in some ways a misleading title because this is a film about assisted dying and euthanasia. yes, francois ozon made sitcoms, terrific director. sophie marceau is emmanuele, who's father has a stroke and then says, well, tells her, i want you to help me to die. she had a conflicted relationship with him in the past. we see flashbacks to her childhood where he was brutish with her. but she loves him but she can't refuse his request but to agrees to help him risks illegality, obviously, an inevitable trip to switzerland. the subject matter opens itself up to sentimentality but there is nothing about that. this is about spiky people with spiky relationships dealing with difficult subject matter but it's often funny and it's very moving. it's never melodramatic but it's very evenhanded. and it's very frank and again, it's dealing with a subject that's not the easiest subject for cinema to deal with but it does it really well.
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and terrific performances from the entire ensemble cast and at no point does it feel the need to do anything sentimental or tear—jerking, which is not saying it's not moving and upsetting but it's also funny and life—affirming. do you believe in this one? i do. in a way, that's the issue. with this i believe that they were the characters they were playing rather than something more performative than that. and here is a question, do you believe in buzz lightyear? because lightyear is the latest toy story spin off. i wish i could tell you i did and the real shame is i don't. the story is this is the ultimate origin. are you into toy story fan? i enjoyed the first one, to be honest, i haven't seen the others. one, two, and three were perfect stories. lightyear we are told at the beginning that andy got the toy of buzz lightyear, which is a toy from his favourite film and this is the film and you go, "really? " ok, so we will see that created
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the toy that andy got. it's unnecessarily contrived. he's attempting to get his crew back home after a crash. here's a clip. you know how i feel about rockets. the same way i feel about autopilot. how may i help you? i'm better offjust doing the job myself. which is why i brought the rookie. hello. no. protocol requires. we bring him along. i can't deal with sad eyes. not looking. no, no, no. look at the rookie. all right, all right. you win. look, rookie, first you will not speak unless spoken to.
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respect the suits. this suit means something. it's notjust protecting your body it's protecting the universe. this suit is a promise to the world that you will do one thing above all. finish the mission no matter the cost. you will never quite. will you please turn that off? you're mocking me, aren't you? yes, but in a supportive way. 0k, fine. it's pixar so there's a certain level of quality control. that's one of the funnier moments. that's pretty much the best bits. the design is great, pixar does design brilliantly. you look at the cars movies, this is designed brilliantly, the problem is, the whole thing about toy story is it's the conceit of the toys and the people. toy story is not about the toys, it's about the children and it's about the parents and arguably, toy story four was about the toys, this is like, come on, what you're doing stretching
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the universe of this so far that what you've done is forgotten the thing that made the first toy story work. the first toy story did not work because brilliant toys coming to life when people are out of the room, it worked because it was about something. this is about something in as much as there is a story about learning to work as a team — hooray. that does notjustify the otherwise vacuous. it was the first time i watched anything from this universe of films and not felt at all emotionally engaged. i wept buckets at the end of toy story three. i was really glad toy story three was in sd because i have the glasses on... we talked about this before, you weep in a lot of films. toy story three is one of the greatest, it's brilliant and a perfect trilogy. this jumped the shark. they will keep churning these out for the money. one would imagine it will do well because it's got audience recognition because people love buzz lightyear ijust don't need to see the film that inspired the toy that inspired andy. enough with the back story.
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best out? men. this is the alex garland film in which all men really are the same because they are all played by rory kinnear. it has a fable—like fairy tale quality where he coasted his house in the country and all the men she meets are paid by the same man and is a monstrousness about them. and for most of the film its a dreamy kind of nightmare off—kilter feeling and in the last third of the it goes david kronenberg body horror. i spoke to a few people who said i was waited for the first two thirds and then what happened? you have to know it's going to go. it's going to walk the full length of the counter when it comes to exploring this idea. it's not perfect but it had a lot of good ideas in it. it's flawed but it's pretty solid. what is the central idea what's it trying to say? i think what it's trying to say
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is that this is the world as seen through her eyes. she had one very bad relationship and she now sees all men as fundamentally the same. you could read it as that's where all men are the same or you could read it as the whole film is delusion or you could read it as it's an incisive truth about gender. take from it what you bring to a to some extent. but the last third is just mad. he's an extraordinary actor. extraordinary singer. she's great, she really rises to the challenge. she does brilliantly. worth watching for her alone. dvd release this week? the batman. i don't know where you stand on batman movies. you love the nolan's movies right? very hard act to follow. i think robert patterson getting into the batman costume there is a big joke about the fact that because he was in the twilight movies it took him that long but from being a vampire
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to being a bat, what this does is it steps far enough away from the christopher nolan movies to have its own luck. i thought it was pretty solid, it's did not feel that long. i saw it twice and i watched it again at home and it still stands up. have you seen it? not yet. i'm going to look at the dvd. it's a much better than it could have been. i went in with a heavy heart thinking we have to go again? but i thought it earned its place. 0k. thank you very much for taking us through this week's releases. that's a from us. thank you for watching the film review this weekend goodbye. hello, the really hot and humid air of recent days has now cleared from the uk. sinking south into europe, the heatwave is set to persist across central europe through the early part of this week. we're in cooler and fresher
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air from the north. dividing them, a line of cloud, a weather front still giving some showers to the south of the uk this evening but they all clear overnight. northerly wind across the eastern side of the uk easing back and it will turn quite chilly across central and eastern scotland. in rural places we may see lows of three or four. a fresher feel across the uk this sunday night. monday, a lot of sunshine from the get—go. lighter winds in the east. a weather front pushing cloud into the north—west of the uk through the day, some patchy rain for the western isles, orkney and shetland. cooler here, highs ofjust iz—ili. elsewhere, temperatures up the couple of degrees on temperatures from sunday. and through the week ahead, we continually dry weather and temperatures will lift.
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