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today's quarterfinals, and we will preview this weekends Grand Prix at

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Silverstone. That's in Sportsday at 6:30pm. Now it's time for The Film

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Review. Hello and welcome to The Film Review

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here on BBC News. To take us through this week 's similar releases here

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is Mark Kermode. As ever a mixed bunch. We have The 100`Year`Old Man

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Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared, which has been

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described as the Swedish Forest Gump. We have Here And Now, a

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British movie about coming`of`age and a blossoming relationship. And

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we have Tammy, Melissa McCarthy starring and co`writing in that. The

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hundred `year`old man, do we get Swedish comedy? This is based on a

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hit novel which was hit a couple of years before it was published here.

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The story is, it stars Robert Gustafsson, described as the

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funniest man in Sweden, which I have to say is the definition of damning

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with faint praise. At the beginning he climbs out of the window and

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disappears and gets to a bus to another town, accidentally picks up

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a suitcase and has a biker gang following him, teams up with an old

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road and a woman with a pet elephant, wealth that is happening

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he is flashing back through his past life which has a Forest Gump Trail

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through the 20th century. He is basically interested in explosions,

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and during the course of his strange life he meets Franco, Stalin,

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Reagan, Oppenheimer, and affect history. He is a clip. Comrade

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Stalin once you to tell him everything you know about the

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nuclear bomb. Yes, sure. But maybe a drink first.

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One drink and then you tell me everything.

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You sound just like Franco. You get the general idea. It is elegant as

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well as Forest Gump. And a bit of Candide. It takes the Forest Gump

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thing, going through these events, and yet all the way through he is

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indifferent to the death, destruction and chaos around him. I

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think there is a problem here which is the humour doesn't travelled the

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same way the Scandinavian film while thing travels. The humour doesn't

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travel in the same way. When this opened in Sweden, Denmark and

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Finland it was a huge hit, and it was a Christmas movie, and they

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loved it. It will have a much harder time here. In some ways it is

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structurally reminiscent of the film like The Young And Prodigious Ts but

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it has a brass band film, and at every moment, the story is telling

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you, this is funny, this is funny. You are thinking, well, it is not,

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it is right and satirical and rather bleak and a bit nihilistic but not

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funny `` Drive. Over here because the humour does not work in the same

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way as it does in Scandinavia, you miss a lot of it so consequently it

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is possible to become irritated. Here And Now. It is a very low

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budget movie clearly made with a lot of love and affection starring

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Lauren Johnson and Andy Rush. She is a town girl taken on holiday, like

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Withnail and I, gone on holiday by mistake, and she is very gobby, she

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meets this young lad who doesn't say very much, which is an ironic point,

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and what happens is while she is there she is seduced by the

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landscape and his company. The earphones come out and she starts

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hearing the sound of the woods and at one point she produces a

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harmonica and plays it. She starts to become seduced by the sober

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lifestyle. It was rather sweet. Very well played by the centrally. A real

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warmth and affection about it, and very low budget but rather

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charming. 2000 `year`old script, a sub stable of the town mouse and the

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country mouse. But it is a good story that is why it has lasted.

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Tammy. Melissa McCarthy co`writes the script with the director, and

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the story is that she loses her job and her husband and goes on the road

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with their drunken grandmother played by Susan 's arrant on, and a

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whole manner of cataclysmic events in student, which inevitably attract

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the attention of the police. Here is a clip. We have reports that someone

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was burning jet ski on the late last night. O... Super uncool, I never

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burn watercraft might you know? No. We have also been tracking tracking

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2004 Cadillac that was involved robbery. Anything on that? You

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know... Wow. Hawaiian Bears shirt, we rescue a lot of those. You

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probably see quite a few. Calm weather is, let's go, right this

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way. I bet you see a lot of bears. No, ma'am. Are you serious? There

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was a bee! She is really funny and I want to like the movie more because

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it has a terrific cast. The problem is, what is Willie interesting is

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that she meets a whole load of very empowered, interesting women who

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don't fit the stereotype those bromance comedies have but it is not

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funny enough, and I wanted to laugh out loud and ended up smiling and

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feeling warmly towards it and liking it, but wanting it to make me laugh

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more. The sad thing is it is the Woody Allen thing, insufficient

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laughter. It is a real shame because it is very good`hearted and has all

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the right intentions but is not as funny as it needs to be, which is a

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shame. For a comic movie. Exactly, it is a problem. A hard days night.

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Just reissued, 50th anniversary, a new print, in the cinema, a Blu`ray

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coming out, and you go, that film is a sprightly, and market, punky, just

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as much as 50 years ago. So much better than many others, everything

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from Don is about Elvis to certain boy bands more recently, it is

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actually funny. In one hand it is a social documentary of Britain on the

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cusp of revolution, the beetles are funny, at the height of their hit

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making capability, it is nouvelle vague, it is a really smart movie.

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Your DVD is Grand Budapest Hotel which you should see on the big

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screen. But funnily enough it works on the small screen largely because

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of Ralph Fiennes's, performance, you don't think of him as a comedic

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performer, and the detail, whenever you look at a Wes Anderson movie it

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is like looking at a Swiss watch, you can watch repeatedly and the

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gags and tiny, everything is so tightly choreographed that it does

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stand up on the small screen. And yes, but you loved it the first

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time. Yes. Not everybody does, Wes Anderson is, it has to be said, not

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everybody's cup of tea. But Ralph Fiennes is very funny which is not

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what you would expect from him. Being funny? Being really funny. He

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is the funniest person on screen this week against Melissa McCarthy

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and The 100`Year`Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared. He

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is funnier than Melissa McCarthy certainly. We will have to differ.

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Before we go, Moore film news and reviews across the BBC, online and

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including all our previous shows. That is it for this week. A load of

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laughs. Thank you for watching and goodbye.

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Silverstone. That's in Sportsday at 6:30pm.

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Good evening. What a contrast in weather conditions we have seen

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today. I will offend people when I say we have had the warmest day of

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the year

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