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Now, on BBC News, it's time for The Film Review. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Hello, and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Some interesting stuff. We have a new movie by Pedro Almodovar called | :00:25. | :00:39. | |
Julieta. Popstar never stop never stopping and War Dogs. A true life | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
satire about the arms industry. We start with Julieta. Are you a Pedro | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Almodovar fan? Ish. OK. That's... Some say that was a cop out. But, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
no, I was reading review views of this one. It's flashbacks that can | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
be - It's not a flashback movie. Let us be clear about that. It's. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
More complicated than that. Basically, it's Pedro Almodovar film | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
based on three short stories by Alice Munro which he adapted, turned | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
into one single narrative. Two actresses playing two central | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
characters, Julieta, Adriana Ugarte and Emma Suarez. The story moves | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
between the 80s and several years later. We meet Julieta played by | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Emma Suarez who is doing well. In control of her life. Lives in an | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
organised apartment. A chance meeting on the street changes things | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
for her. Here is a clip. You can see from that, what happened | :01:37. | :02:38. | |
was that news came as a total shock to her. She is astranged from her | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
daughter. She knows nothing about her at all. What happens, she moves | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
back into the apartment block where she used to live together. . Writes | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the story of their odyssey. A story of Strangers On A Train, guilt | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
passed down generations and a great silence and the pain that silence | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
can incur. What I loved about the film is, firstly, the two central | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
performances are both brilliant. You do think of it as being parts of the | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
same personality. It's absolutely one unified personality going on in | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
this. It's not a film about flashbacks, it uses flashbacks | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
format. It has a wonderful score which reminded meed of Bernard | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Herman it brings up Hitchcock themes. One character says at one | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
point - I feel I'm becoming a Patricia Hysmith obsessive. Because | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Almodovar is a visual director, the adviceuals as. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
As the dialogue do the storytelling. An apartment is uncluttered to do | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
with someone clearing away their memories. Another apartment full of | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the past. The costumes define and explain a character's interior life. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
The use of bold colour, blue, red, white. All of which tells you where | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
you are emotionally with the story. The thing that I loved most about | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
this is, it is a story about grief and loss and guilt and separation | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
and all those things which sound terribly negative. It doesn't | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
necessarily sell it? In fact it's passionate. We open with an image of | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
red cloth which maybe a rose, a heart, it's a red dress. There is a | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
blood line that surges through the film it's a film about ageing and | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
looking back an an unruly can career and drawing together all those | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
elements. If youing a nottist on the subject of Almodovar you should go | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
and see this. I think it will win you over. It's a magnificent piece | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
of work. Which makes me all the more guilty for bringing in the next one, | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
which is Popstar. A music mockumentary. When you think mock | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
umentary is it as good as Spinal Tap the answer is no. Nothing is as good | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
as Spinal Tap. It's the changing fortunes of a guy called Conner, a | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
rapper come singer. He was in a group called the Style Boyz. He's a | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
solo artist. He has fallen from grace with the public, he's trying | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
to do whatever he can to win their approval by organising all these | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
sort of stupid stunts, the kind of which you can see on the screen at | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
the moment. There are several gags in the film that raise a chuckle. I | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
mean, I have this six laugh test. For something to be a comedy it has | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
to make you laugh six times. It just about scraped it. Most are in the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
parody songs which are well done. It's littered with backslapping | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
cameos which are occasionally funny. Occasionally - Paul McCar cart any | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
appears. Ringo Starr raises the biggest laugh that he has raised in | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
several years. It's kind almost worth it for that. It's fine. It's | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
not going to change the world. It's not great. It's not Spinal Tap or | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Fear of a Black Hat. It's fine. Let's move on. War Dogs. Yes. The | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
idea of arms dealers on television we had Night Manager which is a | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
certain view. This is a different view? The poster for this says, from | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
the director of Hangover trilogy, based on a true story and images | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
from Scarface. It's mixed messages. Based on a | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Can rolling Story article on a true story. They end up being armed | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
dealers because of the way in which arms are out sourced. The US is out | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
sourcing its military needs. They aric pricking up on crumbs they come | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
across a deal which would offer them the cake if they could find a way to | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
crack it. Here's a clip. Henri has a dinner in 10 minutes. I | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
wanted you to hear it first half. He can help. Which part. Great. He can | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
fill the whole o order. You know it's 100 | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
million rounds, right? They're in the process of joining | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
Nato. they have to dispose | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
of all of their Soviet air weapons and I can get most of them | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
for pennies in the dollar. You're looking at the exclusive | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
agent for the whole thing. Why don't you just bid | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
on the contract yourself? Got it. How much for the AK ammo. 10 | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
cents a round. You are on a terrorist watchlist. Do you work for | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Homeland Security. Relax, bro. You should talk to one. We will. We are | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
very interested. Good. My it flight leaves tomorrow morning at 10.00am. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
I can't spend more than 24-hours in this dump. I say Vegas is a 24-hour | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
town. I was talking about America. The film tells this true, dark grim | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
story with humour. That is also its problem. It can't quite decide how | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
tough, how sharp, how edgy, how dark it wants to be. On the plus side | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
Jonah Hill is terrific. He has done really good work. There has been | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
comparisons between this and Wolf of Wall Street due to the presence of | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Jonah Hill. If you want to find a precedent fwor this movie you have | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
to go back to Deal of the Century, a comedy about arms dealing which | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
nobody remembers, because almost no-one went to see it. That is more | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
of a precedent. There is an interesting use of pop music from | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
different generations flagging up things like the madness of Vietnam. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
And, I was never bored. The performances worked well. It's | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
sharply written. Sharply edited. My problem with it is, I wanted it to | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
be darker. I wanted it to be edgier. I want it get gnarly about its | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
subject matter and its antiheroes. It's problem is it can't quite | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
decide how dark to go. That said, it's worth seeing for Jonah Hill's | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
performance. It's messy and scrappy. It's entertaining. The question is | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
whether it needs to be more than that. We move on to the Best Out. | :09:09. | :09:21. | |
Current release which you would have to seek out which is Behemoth. It's | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
about industrialisation. It has these kind of hellish visions of | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
furnaces, the title has a biblical reference. It has enormous visual | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
power. I went to see it because a fellow critic recommended it and had | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
written powerfully about it. I was struck by it. You will have to seek | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
it out. It's worth making the effort for because it's very, very | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
cinematic. It's telling a very important tale. Doing it with a | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
visual angle and interesting use of music as well. Best DVD and we are | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
looking at the life of Sid Vicious. Sid and Nancy is 30 years old. It's | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
out on Blu-ray. Seeing it again was interesting. It works. It works | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
because of Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb and the strength of their | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
performances. At the time there was worry about whether the film was | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
romanticising their relationship which ended tragically. Alex Cox has | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
great sympathy for his characters. When you see it again now, after all | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
these years, what really makes it work is the strength of conviction | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
of the performances. Those performances draw you in. Alex Cox | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
makes the films he wants to make. That is all admirable. Thank you | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
very much. See the Almodovar, you will love it. I'm there! | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Plus, you can watch our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer. | :11:03. | :11:06. |