01/08/2014 The Film Review


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will have a roundup of the other latest sports news. That is all with

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me at 6:30pm. Now on BBC News, it is time for the film review.

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Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News.

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To take us through this week's cinema releases is Jason Solomons.

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We go intergalactic for the latest Marvel release. To make talking back

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and save the world? Alan Rickman and Rebecca Hall have the evening

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disrupted by a newcomer. In Igiebor, get your

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`` in Mood Indigo get your quirk, devout to handle Audrey Tautou. We

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can all do with a bit of escapism at this time of year. It is a Marvel

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comic, not one I knew about, about space mercenaries who are chasing an

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all around space. They get thrown into prison by the authorities. ``

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orb. There is a talking raccoon. And also a talking tree. But not the

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most wooden character in all of it. If we are going to get out of here,

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we need to get into that watchtower. To do that, I need a

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fusing. The guards where security bands. I need one. Leave it to me.

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He has a prosthetic leg, I need it. His leg? Yes, goodness knows I don't

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need the rest of him. All right. Do you see that blinking light? Yes.

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There is a special battery behind it. To get into the watchtower I

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definitely need it. How are we supposed to do that? Maybe you can

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work out some sort of trade if you find you attractive. You must be

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joking. No, I know he finds you attractive. It is impossible to get

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up there without being seen. My plan is to get the battery, so figure it

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out! One reviewer said just step on board for the ride. Is that a

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suggestion which is challenging to do so?

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For me it was challenging. From the first minute I knew this wasn't a

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film I could get. A lot of people thought this was a whizbang, smart,

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funny, hilarious space film. The budget is huge.

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The budgets are all huge at the moment, without millions of dollars

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you are nothing in the industry. There is a talking raccoons in it.

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Played by Bradley Cooper. The interesting thing about that is he

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just has to turn up, he does not have too sit through it. It didn't

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have any morals, didn't have any meaning, there isn't really a plot,

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they are chasing a space orb. It was supposed to be a comedy, nobody was

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laughing. I have to say I hated every minute of it. A stupid

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blockbuster. Is it one of those that the critics

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don't like so much, but the public like it?

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I think the public are going to like it. Some critics like it, I think it

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is just me. Jason Solomons doesn't like it.

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I am the guardian of taste this week, not the galaxy.

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Let's have a look at the next one. Alan Rickman in this one.

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Yes, with his best withering look. He plays the bass of an iron foundry

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in Belgium on the eve of the First World War. He runs this iron

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foundry, and he gets a young man to help him out. The young actor is

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from game of thrones. He falls in love instantly with the mistress of

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the house played by the lovely and beautiful Rebecca Hall. They begin

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this romance which is unspoken, it is a listed, it isn't proper, it is

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all about the letters, and all about the pent`up emotions. In between

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this, the First World War inconveniently breaks out. Not that

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they notice at all. The great War, one of the most atrocious events of

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the last century happens, and all these two care about is that they

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can write letters to each other, or what they are going to have for

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dinner. It is directed by a French director, and this is his first film

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in the English`language. He speaks quite good English, but he would not

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know it from this film. There was no chemistry from Rebecca Hall, who is

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actually a great actor. Alan Rickman is also a great actor, but he just

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has no part to play in it. He is sort of emasculated from the start.

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They never gets going. It lasts 95 minutes, but the end of it comes and

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you feel like you have been there for four hours.

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We are not doing very well. This is two out of three. Let's go to the

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third one, Mood Indigo. If you have quirks, prepared to show

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them now. The director gave us one of the most beautiful love stories

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of all time recently, but he is an acquired taste some people haven't

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acquired. He is at his most needing to be acquired moment with this

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film. The title comes from Duke Ellington, it is a love story

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between Romain Duris, one of the best French actors, and Audrey

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Tautou, which we know from Amelie. It is a surreal film. From this

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clip, you're about to see that they are going to get married.

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You were chuckling away. When you laughing at it?

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I was laughing with it. After five minutes this could make you run from

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the cinema, even if you were watching it on an aeroplane from

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30,000 feet. Some people will be put off it. It is zany. But it is better

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than that. It is surreal, and I mean surreal in a proper art form. It

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build a mood with its flying machines and strange performances.

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It doesn't really have a plot, but it charts the love story between

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Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. It is true love but it blossoms and

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Wilts. By the end, I was affected by it. I found it extremely clever, the

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way it worked. Some of it was very funny. I know some people will be

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completely turned off by it. There was a lot of philosophy throughout,

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existentialism, funky musical, it never ceases, it is restless, every

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single frame has something in it. That. `` funky music.

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Has it gone on its merits, rather than its chemistry?

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Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou, it still felt like love. I want to be

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different from the reviews. He has taken you on a journey about the

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colour of the film. It fades to black and white. She gets diagnosed

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with a disease, and there is a flower growing on her lung. I found

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it a beautiful image by the time the other images had corroborated in

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your soul. This one crept into my heart and I thought it was gorgeous,

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really, really good. I'm glad we have recovered the

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situation from the first two. What is the best film out at the moment?

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People keep asking me what is out. There are lots teenage blockbusters

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out, not much else. We had is what I am recommending. It charts a boy

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growing from six to 16. `` Boyhood. Is It Self`indulgent?

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Not At All. It Is About Life Happening. There Are No Spaceships,

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No Talking Raccoons, It Is About Life, Love, And People Growing. It

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Works Like Magic. I Have Seen It Once. It Is Three Hours. It Is Lived

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On. The Blood Talking About It Incessantly. People Who Have Seen It

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Have Been Bowled Over By It. `` People Are Talking About It

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Incessantly. You Can Get A Lot From This Film.

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12 Years In Three Hours. Best Dvd?

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It Is A Prison Drama. Jack O'connell Is An Inmate. He Is A Youth

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Offender, But He Is So Brutal That He Gets Put Into An Adult Jail. It

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Is Hard`hitting Stuff, But All The More Powerful For It.

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Thank You Very Much For All Of That. Just A Quick Reminder.

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You will find more online, including all of our previous shows. That is

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it for this week, though, thank you very much for watching. Goodbye.

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You might be tempted to go to the cinema. If you look behind me, there

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is some rain forecast this weekend. It is already raining in some

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places. The heavy stuff will turn up across the South

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