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papers with me tonight. thank you for reviewing the papers with me tonight. next it's time for the film review. but from me it's goodbye for now. 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 is jason solomons. good to see you, jason. hello, jane. what have you been watching? well, this week we've got everything with elvis, we've got beckett, we've got wham. talk about absurd. we will start with baz luhrmann�*s long—awaited biopic of the king, elvis, and the man who discovered him, colonel tom parker, played by tom hanks. and then we go to france for literally a prison drama — a drama being made in a prison where inmates put on samuel

beckett's waiting for godot. they do have time on their hands, after all. and then, i will not let you down — it's george michael freedom uncut. will it be any good? you gotta have faith, jane. laughs. excellent. plenty more puns where they came from. let's start with elvis. i mean, i love a lot of baz luhrmann�*s work, so tell me, what's it like? this is the man who made strictly ballroom, moulin rouge, the great gatsby, he's got this typically frenetic style, and here he is, taking on the myth, the legend, the king of rock �*n�* roll, elvis, and the man who discovered him, played by tom hanks, colonel tom parker. let's have a look, �*cause we go back right to the beginning of the story where elvis was a country boy, around country fairs with gospel and country at his heart, and then colonel parker discovers him at the fairground and realises he might have a hit act on his hands. what were you thinking? i don't know what i'm thinking.

please, lord, don't let him hurt my baby. hurt him?! looks like they want to... # baby, baby, baby! now, i don't know nothin' i about music, but i could see in that girl's eyes — _ he was a taste of forbidden fruit. she could've eaten him alive. he was my destiny. laughs. it already looks very glitzy. it's a long film. is it like that all the way through? it is kind of like that all the way through, it doesn't let up, the lizardly gaze of tom hanks looking at his prey there almost, elvis, played by newcomer — relative newcomer austin butler, who's got a difficultjob on his hand given that everyone's impersonated elvis over the days. can he do more than an elvis impersonation?

not really — not really. he doesn't really build this character. i didn't really understand what it was i was supposed to be watching. the film goes on and on to the purchase of graceland and having number one hit singles and becoming the biggest star in the world and then going to germany and meeting priscilla and then having this glitzy las vegas residency, and the movie is in hollywood, all puppeteered by colonel tom parker played by tom hanks. the film never stops for breath, as you would expect from baz luhrmann. that's what we like about his signature style. this is the can—can—can frenetic atmosphere. but here, it needs it — it needs a bit of drama, it needs to work out why elvis is caught up in this act, caught in a trap, as it continually says, from suspicious minds. why is he in this trap? why can't he get out? what's his problem ? what's he thinking? and i don't think i ever really got to know. beautiful as it was, itjust is a series of people going — ooh, ooh! reaction shot to that. 0h, we're about to hear a hit number. ooh, isn't he sexy? oh, and his hip's about to shake. isn't he naughty?

�*cause there's an interesting tale about the tom hanks character and, by all accounts, not a nice character, and took a huge percentage of all elvis's earnings... 50%. and, i mean, you could get a lot of drama out of that, a lot of real tension out of that fact. yeah, elvis seems to be quite happy with the relationship. he seems to sort of say, "well, i owe him everything, "i wouldn't be where i am without colonel tom parker." it's the hangers—on that sort of say, "well, hold on, you're getting swindled here." and, yes, it could be a film about greed and fame and how that bloats you and how that is dangerous and it's sort of all there. ijust thought it needed to have a little break at some point and make us think and sort of put ourselves in this. and if you're from the generation who don't know elvis, and i'm presuming that quite a lot of people don't know him anymore — you want to find out. there are some brilliant reconstructions, as you can see there, of the tv special and the vegas special, but those are actually available to view on dvd, so you might almost be better off

watching those bits. brilliantly restaged. they remind me a little bit of the end of bahamian rhapsody when freddie mercury — they do the live aid, freddie mercury — it's brilliantly staged, and it is here, but what does it mean is what i couldn't find out. 0k, interesting. it's going to look lovely, but, yeah, there's clearly some question marks there. a lot of music in there. a lot of talking and some silences in your second choice. yeah, we'll go to france for the big hit, or un triomphe as it is in the french version. it won best european comedy at the european film awards, this, and it's about a man, an out—of—work actor who gets to put on a workshop with some inmates in a prison and he realises that because they just wait and wait and wait, that the most absurd and relevant piece that they could put on is waiting for godot, so they put waiting for godot on, and much to the sort of upset of the local magistrate and the head of the prison, and it becomes a triumphant, a big hit, taking these sort of nair—do—well criminals and putting them altogether finding meaning in the stage and in the absurdity of beckett's play.

and how he gets five or six prisoners and he deliberately doesn't want to know what crimes they've committed and he has several hours a week with them doing rehearsals. i was struck that you said it was — got some comedy awards, �*cause to me, it is more of a drama actually. i enjoyed it, it was quite slow, but i enjoyed it, but i wouldn�*t have it down as a comedy, if i�*m honest. no, i was slightly surprised. i mean, there are moments of comedy in it when they sort of clown around and play around, and i suppose waiting for godot is sometimes classed as a comedy in an absurd way. so i suppose it�*s that kind of comedy. i thought that it was very well done and very well performed... yes, very well acted, yes. all the time, you�*re thinking it�*s going to be like the porridge movie where they are undercover of a football match, they�*re going to escape from prison. so, are they going to do that? is that what they want? are these career criminals or can they be changed by their new life on the stage?

yes, watch and find out on that one. i won�*t spoil it. george michael is the third choice this week. yeah, from beckett — beckett didn�*t even know absurd. he didn�*t know he�*d be talked about in this, the next breath with george michael. a new documentary called freedom uncut, or at least i thought it was a new documentary. it�*s actually been on channel [i in a version shortly after george died. now, we all remember where we were when george died because it was christmas day, 2016. i took it very hard, jane. he was a hero of mine. i saw wham in their very first concert, with the shuttlecocks down the shorts, i saw them at wembley, i saw the final, which is in this film, i saw george in concert — he was a real hero to me. i have the shorts, the t—shirt, the fila tracksuits, i�*ve been to ibiza in that pool. are you wearing them now? exactly! ican suntan. and i really wanted to find out through this documentary what�*s so special about george and why people love him. let�*s look at one of his great albums, listen without prejudice, and that brilliant video for freedom, directed by david fincher. freedom 90 is kind of like this funk groove masterpiece thatjust comes in and,

like, traps you. you're striving to make something every time you go in the studio half as good as a record like that. it's the mona lisa. if you're gonna to say— to your record company, "look, i'm not gonna be in this video," i'd say that's a fairly good _ consolation prize, really. five absolutely gorgeous j supermodels that people still want to look at today. it changed the whole face of how videos were done. the video said everything. it was genius and it was a revolutionary thing. george had raised the bar to a whole new level. i mean, what�*s not to love about that beard? i mean, i love george michael�*s music too, but is this strictly for the diehard fans? well, it�*s really directed by george michael, and so it�*s him getting some of his famous mates — james corden and mark ronson and eltonjohn — to say how brilliant he is, which he is — the hits,

theyjust keep on coming, and tapping my feet, i think they�*re really funny, ricky gervais is very funny, liam gallagher is unusually very funny in it. but if you�*re making a documentary about a pop star, one who�*s deceased and leaves a great legacy of work on sexuality and aids, you need to anchor him in the time and work out what�*s iconic about him and why he�*s still important. and so none of that�*s in there? it is a bit, it�*s really shallow. it grazes that truth about why he�*s so good and why his music�*s still so appealing, and his image is so appealing. and i wanted a bit more from this, and work out why i love george michael so much. i need them to tell me. 0k, interesting. alright. best out this week then? yeah, why not go to the cinema, i know it�*s nice weather, but emma thompson is tremendous in good luck to you, leo grande, directed by sophie hyde, written by the comedian katy brand. it�*s a two—hander about a 60—year—old woman waiting for a sex worker to come and give her herfirst...first ever orgasm — can i say orgasm? i think ijust did. so, that�*s what she�*s waiting on.

it�*s very, very well done, beautifully acted, and i think she�*s up for a long haul of awards here. i think it�*s some of her finest performances, and we�*re talking remains of the day, we�*re talking tall guy. she�*s tremendous in this. yes. 0h...interesting. sadly, the one i haven�*t been able to see yet, but it�*s absolutely on my list, absolutely. and if you don�*t want to sit in a cinema in such beautiful weather, what else would you recommend for us? reintroduced in the cinema in a 4k restoration and on video is... 0h, both! yeah, two birds in one — well, definitely, two birds in one stone because it�*s the wings of desire by wim wenders, 1987 cult classic about the angels who want to — one angel who falls in love with a trapeze artist and wants to become human so he can make contact with her. it is like city of angels with nicholas cage and meg ryan, but this is the original and this is the best. ahh. so, you see, with something like that, that is such a classic, what do you do? what is your choice? do you watch it at home or do you go and see that beautiful 4k restoration...

if you can see it in the cinema, it�*ll look better than it probably ever looked before. i�*ve seen it and it looks... the inky blacks of the photography are just magnificent, and it�*s probably been a long time since you�*ve seen it, so i would go to the cinema to see that, but then i�*m a film critic and a film producer, so that�*s what i do. no, no, ithink i�*m with you on that. just one final quick thought about emma thompson, actually, because of course there�*s all this talk about this is a revolutionary film because it�*s about a... it depends which review you read, but whether it�*s a 55—year—old woman or a 60—year—old woman. anyway, employing the services of a young man in his 20s. yeah, daryl mccormack. it kind of switches the pretty woman thing on its head a bit, which is what i like about it. now, am i wrong, �*cause i haven�*t seen it — am i wrong to be slightly annoyed that we keep talking about her as a much older woman at the age of 55, 60? it�*s not that old. no, it�*s not that old... 55 is definitely not old. no, it�*s definitely not old — i agree with you. personal perspective! it�*s a lot older than the kid that�*s coming to kind of be her sex worker, though, that�*s for sure. i think it�*s about... yeah, it is an ageist thing,

and do we look at that age gap, and recently we saw the film with — licorice pizza, which has an age gap in it with a younger boy and an older woman. i think we�*re seeing that being flipped now. i think it�*s interesting and i think it�*s sort of about an older woman reclaiming her life after a failed marriage and getting her life back and wanting some agency, and silly as it is, we don�*t see it enough on screen, and emma thompson really rests that debate back. yes, well, you�*re spot on there. thank you very much. jason, good to see you. quite a mixed bag this week, but enjoy your cinema going, whatever you choose to go and see. we�*ll see you next time. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. hello. this weekend, we�*ve got an area of low pressure to the west of ireland, and that�*s been bringing some frequent showers to the north and the west of the uk. that theme continues through sunday. frequent showers for northern ireland, northern and western scotland, north west england, wales, south west england. by and large, the further south and east you are, the driest you will be, with the best of the sunshine.

and hence the highest temperatures, perhaps up to 22—23 celsius for east anglia. but cooler further north and west, where we have the cloud, the showers and also the strongest winds as well. those winds could well be gusting 40—16 mph quite widely for western coasts, 50 mph for some irish sea coasts, as well really whipping up the waves. and for sunday night into monday, those showers start to move their way further eastwards, but once again, the further east you are, you�*re likely to stay dry with the clearest skies. the showers beginning to fade across parts of scotland and northern ireland, and it�*s a mild night, 11—13 celsius for many. but an unsettled week ahead for most of us, although briefly across south east england, it will turn warmer. bye— bye.

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