i was just about to say, do we actually see the lion? and then, yeah, you do. you do. obviously, there's some superb visual effects involved here, but it feels very convincing. it is a bit of a nail biter, i would say. probably not as much action as i was expecting. there's a lot of sort of pauses while they build the characters and talk to each other. and there's the whole storyline about the family having lots of tension. but i think in the action scenes it is quite exciting. one of the issues for me here is that there's no real winners in this story. it's not one of those things with an obvious baddie, i mean, because it's a bit of a lose—lose situation. whoever wins in this scenario because you feel very sorry for the lion whose pride has been killed. so it's quite a sad story in a way. so it's not a popcorn thriller in the old—fashioned sense, but idris elba's very good

and he plays a kind of everyman hero. this isn't the kind of heroic kind of story about a man who's going to save his family by turning into a total action hero. he's he looks visibly scared, which seems a bit more realistic in a way. and, yes, it does. it looks very beautiful as well as these films do when they're shot somewhere like that. next, the french film her way. now, it's a cert 18. so that might give us a bit of a clue. yeah, i'll tell you why in a second. it starts off, it's more like a traditional drama. it's about a woman who's trying to help her young son. he's a teenager. he wants to go to a very expensive chef school. she can't really afford to send him there. one of the reasons for that is that she's a prostitute. so she's a sex worker, she's self—employed. she pays her taxes. but the trouble is there are a lot of problems that obviously come along with that in terms of legal issues and trying to get a loan. so it's the story of one woman who happens to have an unusualjob trying to look after her son and fend for her son. and i found this rather interesting because you don't normally see this kind of story on screen.

are there any twists in it or is it literally the story of her struggle and her despair at times? i wouldn't say it's twist driven, but it does enter into thriller territory towards the end because she starts to take more and more extreme measures to try and find the money. this is a fantastic central performance and she really does strike you as a bulldozer, a woman who will try to get this no matter what she wants. and also, if you're interested in characters, which i am, i think in family dynamics, this is quite sophisticated. there are some wonderful scenes between the mother and the son where you see the tension between them and you see her kind of shouting at this sullen teenager, not knowing how to deal with him. and you as a viewer are going, just calm down, both of you, and talk. and he's sort of waiting for that resolution to come. yeah, that'll resonate with a lot of parents, probably, won't it? and the lead actor here, she'll be quite well known to a lot of people in this country. that's right. from call my agent on netflix and of course, a beautiful actress. she's fantastic in this role. she feels very authentic to me in this.

there's a lot of research that's gone into it, i think. and is her son aware of what she does for a living? he is. and that, again, adds tension to the story because you don't see them discussing the nature of her work initially. but you sense that's a source of great tension in the house and then it comes to a bit of a head. third then is official competition with some very big names in this film. well, i'm a big fan of a lot of the people involved in this film. it stars penelope cruz as a kind of way out larger—than—life film director, official competition. she plays a fantastic woman, lola cuevas, who is quite pretentious, and she's hired to make a very expensive film on the whim of a producer who's got a lot of money to spend. she decides to spend nine days workshopping with her two ideal actors, and they're played by antonio banderas and oscar martinez. let's have a look at a clip.

it's very understated, isn't it? but you can feel the tension between the egos. absolutely. so you see from that, you've got two very, very different styles of acting that they've purposely put together. and one is a very pompous a—lister who's quite full of himself, but actually feeling quite vulnerable with all these arthouse directors and actors around him. and the other is, of course, is, you know, lectures to students. and seeing that oneupmanship develop over the time that they're workshopping this film

is very entertaining. and i think whether or not you're interested in film, it is actually really funny. and penelope cruz, it was very different, isn't she, in this? she does indeed. wonderful costumes and hair in this. i wanted all her outfits as extreme as they were. but also, i think what's great is that we see another side to her. i mean, she's always done comedy with the likes of pedro almodovar, but often in the more dramatic roles. but here she is, the centre of the story, and she really is the comedy of the story in many ways as well. she's fantastic. yeah, i look forward to seeing it. i've seen these posters for this film for quite a few weeks now. it seems to have had quite a bit of a push and it has really caught my eye. there's something about it, even in posterform, that pulls you in. it's visually stunning and i do think you will enjoy it. i certainly laughed a lot and it goes to great extremes, increasingly absurd extremes. so there's some laugh—out—loud moments later in the film. spanish films seem to do quite well at british box offices. i mean, maybe not in all cinemas, but they seem to have cut through in a way that maybe other foreign language films haven't.

i think they have a wonderful sense of humour that perhaps the british enjoy sometimes, and this is definitely one of those cases. it almost feels if it was a british film or, rather, a hollywood film, it could be directed by the coen brothers. it has that kind of mass appeal, sending up the film industry, very affectionate humour. and of course, over here we tend to only get the very best spanish films, and this is one of those. yes, we are treated to that. and there's always something meta about it as well, isn't it? the film industry, looking at the film industry totally. i mean, it's quite funny seeing these actors sending up acting, thinking i wonder if they've actually ever said that in real life or done that in real life? there's a hilarious, absurd scene where she makes them bring their awards in and then destroys them in front of them while they're completely immobilized. and you think, gosh, i wonder if that actually ever happened? over the power. our producer this week of the film review is paloma and she's from madrid. so i'm sure she approves of this choice. next, another foreign language film, french again, and anais in love, which is the best out. is it deliberate that you've chosen all of these? accidental? so well, actually at the moment,

as has been widely publicised recently, there's not a lot of popcorn blockbusters in cinemas because it's the summer and also pandemic related. but also, i like to choose some of the best films and, quite frankly, some of the best films out this week are foreign language. and we've got a lovely french film called anais in love. it's a very engaging, romantic comedy about a young woman who has an affair with a man and then actually transfers her attentions to his female partner. so it all gets very interesting. but again, really well scripted, great characters, a lot of fun, terrific performances. yeah, i also read that as a character, you'd probably not really want to spend too much time with her, but she's quite an engaging character on screen. she's quite a complex character. she's someone that probably is quite annoying to watch. i think she'd be quite magnetic to hang outwith, actually. she sort of... then you would get annoyed with her after the event �*cause she'd never call you or never say anything she ever promised that she'd do. she's a woman that lives in the moment, but very sparkly performance and, yeah, quite sophisticated script. and this one is... has it had much uptake in the cinemas? has it been sort of independent cinemas more than anywhere?

well, yeah, it's a curzon film, so you're mostly finding it in curzon cinemas, but also now on digital as well. and home cinema, the best dvd. all my friends hate me. a psychological drama about what your mind can do to itself. it is a lot about mental health, about paranoia, about anxiety, but on the face of it, it starts off like it could be a richard curtis movie. it's a sort of country house, university reunion, lots of quite posh friends getting together. and then one guy suddenly starts to think, do my friends actually hate me? and he starts to unravel. and we see everything through his eyes, which i find really interesting because you're starting to question, you know, is he imagining this and you're feeling his paranoia with him? so it's almost edging on psychological horror. but i thought it was very clever and it kept me awake at night in a good way thinking about it. yeah, and how did — did it do well in the cinema? i think it's it, well, again, it's on the arthouse level, but i think if you're a fan of the likes of ben wheatley, then this is a film that if you missed it in cinema, you should catch it on dvd from monday. anna, lovely to see you as always.

thank you, anna smith. that's it for this week. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello. we've seen a largely dry, settled day on sunday. just a few splashes of light rain around here and there, but actually many of us keeping the dry and settled spell over the next few days too. this was the scene in powy�*s — beautiful blue sky and some fair—weather cloud around there. so mainly dry with sunny spells is the headline over the next few days, but there will be a few showers developing and a bit more of a breeze coming in from the north sea too. high pressure sits to the north and that's just importing a bit more cloud around for eastern coasts of england, parts of scotland as well. so as we head through the course of tonight, then, a little bit of rain developing for parts of north—west england, the isle of man, northern ireland,

perhaps pushing into dumfries and galloway as well, but most other places looking dry. clear spells overnight, clearer skies, in fact, up towards the northern isles. it will be here that we'll see the lowest temperatures, eight degrees there overnight in lerwick, but most of us around 11 to 15 to start off monday morning. monday, of course, the bank holiday across many parts of the uk, not everywhere, but it's going to be a largely dry day once again. there'll be a few rogue showers just coming in on that breeze across parts of eastern england. probably the best of the sunshine will be for parts of wales and south—west england, perhaps western scotland, but the odd light shower around through central scotland too. temperatures by monday afternoon for most of us in the low to perhaps mid—20s, but always a little bit cooler across northern and eastern scotland where you've got that breeze coming in off the north sea, and 13 degrees there for the northern isles. now, high pressure holds on, sits towards the north of the uk as we head on into tuesday, so not much change in our weather. weather fronts kept out at bay for the moment. into tuesday, again the odd light shower moving in for east anglia and the south—east on that breeze, and there could be a few showers for, say, western parts of scotland, but most of us having another dry day with some long spells of sunshine, especially for parts

of northern ireland, wales, the south—west of england too. cardiff, 2a degrees. aberdeen, only 15 on tuesday. so the middle of the week dominated by that high pressure to the north of the uk. we've got low pressure starting to develop out towards the south—west, possiblyjust moving into the bay of biscay, for instance, through wednesday into thursday as well. not really reaching our shores by this stage, though. with that high pressure still in charge, it does look like we've got lots of dry weather towards the end of the week. perhaps a hint that we could start to see something a little bit more unsettled — we certainly need the rain — for friday and on into the coming weekend. bye for now.

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