The Huntsman: Winter's War, Dheepan, Midnight Special The Film Review

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Now on BBC News, it is time for The Film Review.

Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this

week's releases we have Jason Solomons. What we have? Mirror,

Mirror on the wall, who is the atheist queen of all? We will try to

find out with Mirror. And in Sri Lanka, lost souls, a family

endangered in a dangerous suburb, in Dheepan. And Michael Shannon gets to

grip with his son's otherworldly powers in the indie sci-fi thriller,

Midnight Special. All human life is here! Now, The Huntsman: Winter's

War, what do you make of it? The Huntsman: Winter's War. The

flooding' is the least of this film's concerns! -- the floating

apostrophe. Snow-white is not even in it! They decided the hunky

huntsman is much more interesting. All about what happened to him,

captured as a child soldier, raised as a huntsman, taken to an icy

kingdom ruled by Emily Blunt... Charlize Theron is the evil queen

somewhere. How they get it all in is a mystery. It makes no sense at all.

There are dwarves, and Emily Blunt rides a polar bear the work!

Obviously! All I had to do was send her

to you and you led her They're just like children!

CHUCKLES You knew she'd betray

you and you spared her still. Augusta well, I liked the polar bear

a thing, whatever that was -- well, I liked. The sabre-tooth polar bear!

The icy thing... The original was pretty icy. It had the seven dwarves

and now there are only four. They may have doubled them up. It is

almost as if someone got round the table in Hollywood and said, you

know that Frozen, that was really good, so let's have two sisters

hurling ice at each other. Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron, then,

with her ginger hair, they gave her a Scottish accent, kind of. He has a

Braveheart accent, it is such a mash up and a mess but actually somehow

there are some very spectacular effects. I do not know who it is

for. Young Game Of Thrones fans? Busy fans? The ones who ball at the

sort of nudity... -- balk at. And her Scottish accent. Who knew? She

canny dae it! LAUGHTER

And Dheepan, the current Palm d'Or holder. It did not win at Cannes and

there was a feeling that when he won at Cannes last year it was because

he had been overlooked before. But I think Dheepan is equally good, the

director Jacques Audiard, I think he is the coolest director, I was good

to see in Europe, but probably in the world, I think. Martin Scorsese

is more the sort of American Audiard because of all the influences. Here,

he does his usual look at a family living on the margins, hero who has

to survive. It is about our Sri Lankan refugee who smuggles himself

and his false family to Paris and they are given status as asylum

seekers as the leader in this crumbling estate in the Banlieue of

Paris, as the collet. He has two negotiate his way through the drug

dealers and hoodlums and -- as they call it. He gets back to his

soldiering ways, rediscovers the ways of the jungle from when he was

a Tamil rebel. Extraordinary, everything he packs into this movie,

but Michel -- Audiard does it. It has a thrill ride which so many

French directors love, but they do not often have the thrill you get

with Audiard's films. They are cool to watch. The Huntsman: Winter's War

will not do it, but Dheepan make. And Midnight Special might? Another

very interesting director called Jeff Nichols who did a lovely film

called Mud with Matthew McConnachie. He is interested in Americana and

mythology, and faith as well, the strange placing of faith. This is

about a very strange boy who has two were blue swimming goggles to

protect his eyes, and we don't quite know why. He seems to be on the run

with his father, played by Michael Shannon, driven by Joel Edgerton.

They are on the run from cult who to be a wash of this boy, led by Sam

Shepard and again we quite know why -- occult who seem to worship this

boy. All we do know is that this boy seems to be able to conjure things

out of the blue. Here's a clip. Yeah, well, you oughta

watch your kid. You cannot leave the van -

you hear me?! I think anybody watching that will

think, this is Stephen Spielberg, something like that. It is

interesting that. It is a bit more like Close Encounters, kinder than

normal life, someone fascinated by... Then it builds to a climax

where perhaps the aliens arrive. I like sci-fis when they are set in

the year round now. JJ Abrams did it very well with Separate as well and

then there is that bit where the aliens either appear or do not

appear and I think it is best if you don't do aliens -- Super eight. As

soon as you use outer space stuff you have to design it and use

special effects. I thought for most of its running time, Midnight

Special was great, very mysterious and uneasy, and I do not want to

spoil it but at the end that is the necessity of the special effects,

which are not very special, because which are not very special, because

it is an indie film, because unless you have that budget the look kind

of on wonderful. With Mud, Huckleberry Finn, and the kids, the

children, very annoying and, well, it is way into the story... It is

the same here. I think he is interested in how kids can be

portrayed, how their sense of innocence can be removed by a

America and by faith as well. He is interested in how faith, God and

cosmology is twisted, this cult run by Sam Shepard. In Mud there is a

shoot out in a hotel, and a blonde starring, Reese Witherspoon, and

Kirsten Dunst is the sort of blonde American star he gets on this one. I

think he is a very fine film-maker, and has slightly, crop with Midnight

Special, but it is still very interesting to watch. I can't really

reveal the end, of course, but, you know, for most of the journey I

thought it was very special. Your Best of the week is this film shot

in one take, Victoria, apparently in the wee wee hours in Berlin. Yes, a

Spanish woman who gets caught up with a failed heist with some

friends she meets on the street, and it is all done in one take, so I

think it is sort of breathless to watch, and it looks like Breathless

as well. Your DVD of the week is Sunset Song and I have to say that

Peter Mullan can do is Scottish accent, as can Agyness Deyn. Yes,

very good. Terence Davies's film. Fields of wheat, set in Scotland,

based on a classic Scottish novel. Lewis Grassic Gibbon. I have not

read it but everybody speaks about it. Nobody actually wants to read

it. But you don't have to because the film, I think, is a very smart

adaptation. It feels very literary and it is a very strong performance

by Agyness Deyn doing a great Scottish accent. It is also another

world, pre-World War I. The loss of innocence and the loss of a way of

life, in a way, with them being suddenly hauled into modernity.

Peter Mullan plays this Victorian father, and I don't know if he can

play any other father -- Centauri and father. Some career advice

therefore Peter as well! That's it for this week. Thank you for

watching, and do enjoy the movies.