:00:00. > :00:00.race as it stands. That is all and would stay at 6:30 p.m.. Now, it is
:00:00. > :00:30.time for the Film Review. Hello and welcome. To take us
:00:31. > :00:36.through the cinema releases is Jason Solomon.
:00:37. > :00:44.We look at a typically British form of heroism, can Eddie the Eagle
:00:45. > :00:47.achieve the Olympic dream? Also, Victoria. A night of clubbing in
:00:48. > :00:53.Berlin takes a turn for the dangerous. And they are poets but
:00:54. > :01:04.they do not know it. Can a pair of con artist fake their way through a
:01:05. > :01:08.weekend retreat? I have a real soft spot for Eddie the Eagle the person,
:01:09. > :01:14.I had not seen the film. Unlike you I did not like him at the
:01:15. > :01:19.time. I was not for the heroism around a man who finished last. Yes,
:01:20. > :01:23.he was there, and well done, and he beat a British record which did not
:01:24. > :01:27.really exist anyway, but I was really against that. I know it is
:01:28. > :01:33.all about the taking part but I just thought it was all a bit of a
:01:34. > :01:37.circus. If we remember back, at the time, we laughed at him, but this
:01:38. > :01:56.film does is lets us laugh with him. It is a sports movie, by the movie,
:01:57. > :02:02.a montage -fest that goes on. It will go for the heart strings. It is
:02:03. > :02:40.dangerous stuff, this ski jumping. Everything OK? Fine, just getting
:02:41. > :02:51.ready. Never done it before. Honestly? Could you give me a push?
:02:52. > :02:57.A push? It is a lot higher than I expected it to be...
:02:58. > :03:03.That scared me. We will not give the game away as to what happened next.
:03:04. > :03:07.It is all about that, if starts with a montage of him trying out various
:03:08. > :03:12.sports and breaking his classes. It is very much a British movie about
:03:13. > :03:15.the class system, it was the British Olympic committee do not want him
:03:16. > :03:20.coming in from nowhere and say he will never make it. And then he
:03:21. > :03:24.does, of course. He jumps through the hoops and gets onto the team and
:03:25. > :03:29.becomes a hero, but only because she is a failure. It is very
:03:30. > :03:33.interesting, I never liked it in real life. But with the beer
:03:34. > :03:39.goggles, and the jutting chin, and the relentless or as he has, just
:03:40. > :03:43.like the Rocky training montages, and you don't have to like boxing to
:03:44. > :03:49.light Rocky. You just love it when the montage comes together. As we
:03:50. > :03:54.can see, the bouncing along, the falling over, it is very funny. The
:03:55. > :03:57.director, Dexter Fletcher, you might know him as a child actor, he was in
:03:58. > :04:04.press-gang, and has become a very good director. He did a warm-hearted
:04:05. > :04:08.film called Sunshine on Leith, set to the music of the proclaimers,
:04:09. > :04:12.which was a success against the odds. And he has done it again with
:04:13. > :04:19.a warm-hearted sensibility which carries the movie through. Keith
:04:20. > :04:23.Allen plays the father who just want Eddie to be a plasterer, and Joan
:04:24. > :04:27.Hartley plays the lovely mother who nurtures her son forward. A very
:04:28. > :04:32.British movie that has done well in the States, because they love an
:04:33. > :04:36.underdog story. I do not love an underdog so much but with this, I
:04:37. > :04:43.had tears in my eyes by the end. Victoria is either a work of genius,
:04:44. > :04:48.possibly, or a bit of a gimmick? The poster says, one night, one
:04:49. > :04:53.take. And what that means is it was done in one single shot. We have
:04:54. > :05:00.seen it done before in Goodfellas. But not for the entire film. To
:05:01. > :05:06.hours! How do you do it? It is about a girl called Victoria goes clubbing
:05:07. > :05:10.in Berlin. She is Spanish and get caught up with these guys who are
:05:11. > :05:14.about to do a bank job. Although she does not know it. And they get
:05:15. > :05:20.caught up in this long night. I was reminded of Barry Davies. The free
:05:21. > :05:26.kick against Arsenal. He says, he is not going to have a go from here, is
:05:27. > :05:32.he? He is, you know! I thought, he will not do this in one take, but he
:05:33. > :05:38.does, you know. They get kidnapped, they go off buildings, into a car,
:05:39. > :05:41.the camera never cut at all, it is extraordinary to watch. But all that
:05:42. > :05:49.is a gimmick unless the is good. And it is. It is a Great War around
:05:50. > :05:55.movie, in Berlin, a bit like Richard Linkletter, and then suddenly there
:05:56. > :06:00.are gangsters on the run. Berlin has an extraordinary
:06:01. > :06:05.atmosphere about it. It has a very modern history.
:06:06. > :06:14.Techno, clubbing, very cool, Berlin stuff. The music is done by the
:06:15. > :06:21.European techno Meister who I must confess I like, and the
:06:22. > :06:26.cinematography is a tour de force. You think, all in one take, is he
:06:27. > :06:30.going to make it? But he takes it to a whole new level. It is something
:06:31. > :06:35.you can only do now with the technology. Because you don't need
:06:36. > :06:38.to change the real. But to keep it all in short, in focus, every
:06:39. > :06:44.character, it is some achievement. And also a really good film.
:06:45. > :06:56.Black Mountain Poets. A change of pace. Nobody is going
:06:57. > :07:01.for anything extraordinary. Bolelli Wills has done this kind of thing
:07:02. > :07:08.before, most noticeably with Emily Mortimer. They play a pair of con
:07:09. > :07:13.artists on the run who pretend to be sisters and turn up at a retreat to
:07:14. > :07:19.avoid the police. Can they make it through by pretending to be the
:07:20. > :07:22.poets? Well, it is not very difficult, some people read out the
:07:23. > :07:29.and call poetry. As they proved here.
:07:30. > :07:31.You Microsoft is read out a utility bill or a receipt or something.
:07:32. > :08:15.Maybe I will, OK. grocery shopping at Tesco .com? One
:08:16. > :08:25.delivery slots from ?1. Click, and connect groceries. Dr Pepper, ?2.
:08:26. > :08:34.Total, ?2. Cash, ?10. It is not Seamus Heaney but it is
:08:35. > :08:38.very funny. It is very funny in parts, I have to say. It is not a
:08:39. > :08:42.huge cinematic experience, but you saw Tom Cullen, from Downton Abbey,
:08:43. > :08:48.often very funny, very improvised feel. That scene apparently was
:08:49. > :08:53.totally improvised. Somebody said, have you got a receipt? They just
:08:54. > :08:58.produced from the garage on the way to the shoot. So it has that
:08:59. > :09:02.spontaneity to it. And when it works it is very funny. A sweet
:09:03. > :09:07.relationship emerges between the sisters, and it takes the Mickey out
:09:08. > :09:16.of beat poets. Which I'm sure it is very to do!
:09:17. > :09:21.The best of the week is Anomalisa. This is the first puppet film I have
:09:22. > :09:25.reviewed on this sort. It is from Charlie Kaufman, the man who gave us
:09:26. > :09:28.the eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, and being John Malkovich. It
:09:29. > :09:35.is very much about being inside his head. A tender, and vicious film
:09:36. > :09:41.about a bloke having a midlife crisis in a Cincinnati hotel. He has
:09:42. > :09:48.a relationship with a person attending his conference, voiced by
:09:49. > :09:51.Jennifer Jason Leigh. She sings girls just Wanna have fun by Cyndi
:09:52. > :09:57.Lauper in an extraordinary scene which becomes hilarious and tender.
:09:58. > :10:01.I must warn you, there is puppet sex in this movie as well. But you
:10:02. > :10:05.actually believe it, it is quite extraordinary.
:10:06. > :10:12.Team America? Kermit and Miss Piggy.
:10:13. > :10:20.We should leave that! Moving on, I can see a theme, technical wizardry
:10:21. > :10:27.with new gadgets. Tangerine, shot on an iPhone. Sean
:10:28. > :10:38.Baker made a very, very brilliant film. Not only is it shot on an
:10:39. > :10:44.iPhone, it has two great performances in a very funny film,
:10:45. > :10:48.like Victoria, sort of like a one night film, Christmas Eve, and their
:10:49. > :10:58.relationship with their amps and the street. Beautifully performed and
:10:59. > :11:03.the new marvel of cinema. It is where Hugh Grant once ended up
:11:04. > :11:08.with Divine Brown. Don't want to remind him of that!
:11:09. > :11:09.Thank you very much for watching.