you know, i've been so excited about this film, i loved his films get out and i loved us. both as you say, films in the horror vain but there's a lot of social commentary, very intelligent, very thought—provoking, all things i think we also have in his new film nope. and what is interesting there is we've got some genres kind of coming in here, there's quite a western flavour, a bit of sci—fi as well. so daniel kaluuya and keke palmer star as siblings who run a kind of hollywood training ranch for horses. so they've got this ranch, got all the horses and they serve hollywood. and they've been looking at the skies and seeing some rather unusual things. let's have a look at the clip. 0k. it's in the cloud, it's in the cloud. oj, it's in the cloud! m—hm. no, no, no. run, oj, run!

so, yeah. i'm already scared. as you can see, a little bit scary. there's a lot of things going on here but it is very visually stunning, as you can see there. hoyte van hoytema is a fantastic cinematographer who works with christopher nolan a lot. and jordan peele is hiding for this and using a lot and it's actually about spectacle. the story itself looks at spectacle, it looks at not only how we look at things and what we are thinking when we look at them but also the sort of commercialisation of spectacle. so of course you've got hollywood, you've got the fact that these guys on the edges of hollywood, they're looking at the skies as well. also, one of their great goals is to capture whatever is up there for what they call the "oprah shot". they want to be famous, they want to make money and they want to get the "oprah shot".

but there's also a lot going on here to do with animals because obviously, this is a horse ranch. and there a lot about, do we use animals for entertainment, is that right? there's also a number of very disturbing subplots. one of these involves a tv studio in which something very bad happens involving a chimpanzee. it's a kind of flashback scene, which also involves one of their neighbours who runs a kind of entertainment business. so a lot of great supporting characters but it kind of centres on this duo, this brother and sister who really have a very darkly funny, contrasting relationship. he's very introverted and she's very chatty. he's terrific. he's a fantastic actor. he's got a wonderful presence here. of course he was in get out, jordan peele's incredible film which directly tackled the issue of race. they'll be no surprise that race comes into it here. the idea is that actually one of their ancestors was one of the first black men

to appear on film and went unsong. so a lot going on here. i went away thinking loads, as usual, it kept me awake at night. possibly just about the lesser of the three of his films but still an excellent film. that's really interesting. i love his social commentary, i love the way it looks, he so creative. i'm just never brave enough to get to the end of the film. am i going to get to the of this one? you might make it halfway through. just hide your face. it's worth it, honestly. 0k. all right. a big thumbs up from you. for the film number two, yes, do we call it eiffel or eiffel? i'm going between the two because of course we say the eiffel tower but then gustav eiffel is his name. so eiffel if you like, it's a kind of fanciful drama. it's partly inspired by true life and what prompted him to make the eiffel tower and come up with this crazy plan. we first meet him, he's played by romain duris who is a wonderful french actor. we first meet him when he's becoming quite famous in paris and enjoying a certain amount of celebrity. he's obviously very revered for his skill and he has this

audacious plan, this huge tower. but then the decides that ons of the reasons he's inspired to make this is an encounter with a long—lost love, played by emma mackey who is actually, she the star of sex education, she's bilingual, she's part french. she a lovely actress but i felt... i had a few problems with this. i don't know if you did too but one of them is that this is a very heart—stopping, lovelorn romance, maybe too many swooning shots for my liking. i'm with you on that. ok, we get it, they really fancy each other. we get that, yes. but also i just felt it didn't really sit that easily with the story of the eiffel tower. it felt like two stories jammed together, didn't it? because the bits about the engineering and the tower and the architecture and could we manage to build something this heavy out of metal — this tall out of metal? all of that is completely fascinating. and the romantic story was sort of tacked on. i felt it was a shame,

actually. it was a bit of a shame. great acting but... it would've been faced are we just get into a romance or are we going to do that? but it's putting the two together. it didn't know what to be. also the age gaps completely inaccurate. it annoyed me quite a lot. there is an issue too. yeah, it's in the camp of not as good as it should be, i think. and choice number three this week? so where is anne frank, this is an intriguing animation. it's kind of aimed at other children, you might say, certainly a pg certificate. the idea is that anne frank's imaginary friend, kitty, the ones she wrote many letters to in her diary, actually magically comes to life in current day amsterdam. she wakes up in the anne frank house and wonders, where's my friend? the idea is that she believes herself to be real and she believes that her relationship with anne was real. so we then have these animated flashbacks to their conversations, which effectively bring the diary to life. let's have a look at the clip. 0k. the nazis came to power in germany and then they took over most of europe and marked us jews as the villains. they told everyone we were to

blame for all the world's problems, disease, hunger, poverty, you name it. then the restrictions. first it was the swimming pools, after that it was everywhere. we were banned from concert halls, shops, sporting events, parks, hospitals, universities. and then they imposed a curfew. we weren't allowed to leave the house between sunset and sunrise. we thought life couldn't get any worse. that's when the children started disappearing. they'd send a letter ordering jewish kids to report to the nearest police station the next day. it said something about a work camp for children. but we never saw them again. poignant stuff, as you can see. and i think it's probably aimed perhaps at children who are hearing the story for the first time. i was wondering that, yes.

and what you have is kitty in a way a sipher for someone who is hearing the story for the first time because she doesn't know ann's fate. and she's running around contemporary amsterdam and trying to find out what happened to her friend, anne frank. and the truth gradually dawns on her as she sees her friend. she's very confused about the statue of her friend everywhere, she's famous but then of course she goes on this detective mission with a new friend to find out what actually happened to her. this is from arif altmann who gave us bashir. so that was a very moving more adult animation and i found this similarly moving as well at the end. i know it's aimed at young and of course i know the story but i was in tears at the end of this. it really brings it home. oh, were you? it does bring it to a new audience, perhaps. it does and also i think they make contemporary parallels with the refugee crisis. it is quite current as well. so i do think it's a good one for older kids, if you want them to see this story. it is upsetting but i think it's told in quite a sensitive way. really interesting.

ok, thanks very much. that's the three choices for this week. there is a great film that you've chosen as best out. i'm so pleased you chose this. blind ambition. this is a triumph against adversity story. i love this, this is on curzon home cinema and also in cinemas. this is a story, it's a documentary, it's a story of four zimbabwean men who escaped violence and went to live in south africa, build new lives and they ended up forming a wine—tasting team for the world wine—tasting championships in france. it's a sort of fish out of water, comedy documentary in some ways, it's very light, it's very accessible, it's very funny in parts but also there is real heart there. these are men who are finding their true calling in the unlikliest of circumstances. and they are bonding and there's also plenty of culture clash with the french, naturally. and some very strong characters on the french side. for me, this was an enjoyable doc. and i think it's fascinating because you might think, oh, it sounds frivolous, it's about wine—tasting. how interesting can that be for an hour and a half?

but there is really poignant stories as well. these are men who fled zimbabwe and told the story is how they crossed the border, takes us back to the refugee crisis, taking their life in their hands to find a better life. and it's really cleverly sewn together, i think. some really difficult circumstances that they came from. but flowering, really into an unusual passion on all their parts. it's inspiring, isn't it? delightfully made. they get that balance right. it's also partly about the kindness of strangers and people that helped him on this journey. it's a lovely story. it's a really good watch. striking and interesting. for anyone who wants to stay at home, there's a great film but my goodness, a sad one. benediction. this is a story of secrets on the war poetjack lowden. it's decades spanning, it covers his life, this is terence davies' biopic. and he does bioptics very seriously, very well. i mean, we get a lot of his poetry, of course,

that we get his post—war trauma. and then there is some brief levity in the �*20s when he is having various relationships with men. but as you say, there is an underlying sadness to this very tragic story, ultimately. yes, yes. and really interestingly made, beautifully made, very creative but it doesn't shy away from the horrors of the first world war and lots of current actors today overlaid with images from the trenches, deeply upsetting. so it's quite a roller coaster in that way. it's a sedate film on the surface but it's quite a gut punch, actually, isn't it? i think it's more powerful dressed as an elegant sort of period biopic but then it does hit you where it hurts when it has to. i think it's really well done. i recommend it for good home viewing. absolutely. all right, anna, thank you very much. really, really interesting week. see you next time. thank you and enjoy your movie choices, whatever they are at this week. see you soon. thanks for being with us. bye—bye.

hello there. it's turning even hotter this weekend with temperatures perhaps reaching 35, maybe 36 degrees. so dry, sunny, hot for most this weekend but in northern and western areas you could start to see a few showers developing, particularly through the day on sunday. now it's southern parts of britain that really could do with the rainfall, for example, odiham in hampshire hasn't seen any measurable rain for 42 days — so the ground is parched here, we really do need some rainfall. of course the met office amber extreme heat warning remains in force for large parts of england and wales up until around sunday. again with those temperatures reaching 35, maybe 36 degrees in the hottest spots on saturday afternoon. widespread sunshine then throughout saturday, any low cloud and mist in scotland and north—east england will burn back to the coast, maybe a slight chance of a shower across the scottish hills, maybe snowdonia, otherwise most places dry. high 20s in the north, 30 to 35—36 degrees

across england and wales. through saturday night it will stay dry for most, a bit of low cloud, mist and murk rolling back across eastern scotland, north—east england. temperature wise, again the low to mid teens in the north, 17—20 degrees further south, really could be quite warm and uncomfortable across the south coast of england. sunday we do it all again. it's a sunny start, mist and low cloud burning back to the coast but then a greater chance of showers and thunderstorms developing across northern ireland, scotland into the afternoon, maybe one or two across western england and wales later in the day. the vast majority though will stay dry and sunny and very hot again, 30—35 or 36 england and wales, maybe a touch cooler, scotland and northern ireland around the mid 20s there. we start to see changes into next week, things turn a bit cooler and we will start to see more in the way of showers and thunderstorms, that's because we've got low pressure pushing up from the south as we move out of sunday. that will introduce more humid

air, so it could be quite uncomfortable for a while sunday into monday, but then you will see the shower and thunderstorm activity start to increase. initially northern and western areas, and then migrating towards the east. you will see temperatures very warm to start the week across the south—east and then showers, thunderstorms rattle their way through, things will be turning cooler, closer to the seasonal average, by the time we reach the end of the new week.

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