:00:00. > :00:00.They are at the team base in Lyon, before they head to Nice to face
:00:00. > :00:09.group. We are going to have the rest of the day 's sport as well.
:00:10. > :00:12.That's coming up at 6:30pm with me, Ollie Foster, Euro 2016
:00:13. > :00:23.But now it's time for The Film Review.
:00:24. > :00:33.What Mac to The Film Review, and taking us through the week was
:00:34. > :00:38.summer releases, Mark Kermode. This is an interesting week. We have race
:00:39. > :00:42.of the serpent, which was nominated for the best foreign-language film
:00:43. > :00:55.Oscar. We have When Marnie Was There. And Michael Moore is back
:00:56. > :01:01.with Where To Invade Next? Let's start with embrace of the serpent. A
:01:02. > :01:05.mixture of fact and fiction described by the diaries of two
:01:06. > :01:10.explorers who ventured into the Amazon, decades apart. The film
:01:11. > :01:16.fictionalise as their journey but sees it from the point of view of an
:01:17. > :01:22.indigenous tribes person who has played in two stages of his life by
:01:23. > :01:27.two separate actors. The first of the explorers comes in search of a
:01:28. > :01:34.plant to you an illness which he has developed. The second of the
:01:35. > :01:40.Explorers is Evan who meets up with a guide to retrace his steps and
:01:41. > :02:13.make the same pilgrimage. This is a clip.
:02:14. > :02:22.The thing I love about this film was that it was an attempt to meld
:02:23. > :02:26.western narrative and Amazonian myth, and it does that brilliantly.
:02:27. > :02:32.You have a story of the Explorers, and another story based on this idea
:02:33. > :02:37.also less teen -- celestial beings coming down to earth on a giant
:02:38. > :02:41.Anaconda. It has these two separate time periods that flow in and out of
:02:42. > :02:46.each other, like boats floating upon the same river. It looks
:02:47. > :02:49.astonishing. You can see from the clips were watching, beautiful black
:02:50. > :02:55.and white cinematography. It has an extraordinary soundtrack mixing
:02:56. > :02:58.low-key music, some of it sounding like the old recordings of
:02:59. > :03:05.indigenous songs, blended with the strains of nature. On one hand it is
:03:06. > :03:09.a political tale about the evils of colonialism, on the other hand it is
:03:10. > :03:13.magical realist fable about so much more than that. What I love about it
:03:14. > :03:17.is that it does what cinema does at its best, to take you to another
:03:18. > :03:21.world, to see the world through different eyes. I was really bowled
:03:22. > :03:26.over by it. It is one of my favourite films of the year. I would
:03:27. > :03:29.be surprised if it is not my best of the year. It is called Embrace Of
:03:30. > :03:34.The Serpent. I would encourage anybody to track it down. What about
:03:35. > :03:54.When Marnie Was There, something quite different, and animation. This
:03:55. > :03:57.is adaptation of the 1970 -- 1967 story by JG Robinson about a young
:03:58. > :04:03.girl who goes to stay with relatives and finds friendship in a strange,
:04:04. > :04:10.mysterious house and she develops a relationship with this girl called
:04:11. > :04:14.Marnie. Is she a ghost, projection, is she a wish? You believe in her
:04:15. > :04:18.totally, because you believe in the story as told by the phone. The
:04:19. > :04:23.animation is beautiful. The drawings are wonderful. It is one of those
:04:24. > :04:27.films that manages to engage young and old alike. You genuinely feel
:04:28. > :04:33.that you could watch with a wide range of audiences. It is
:04:34. > :04:35.intelligent and sensitive, it contains universal truths, it is one
:04:36. > :04:42.thing, it is funny, there was one moment in it which seems like a
:04:43. > :04:50.playful nod towards Hitchcock. I was a huge fan of it. It is available in
:04:51. > :04:58.an English language dub. If you don't have a problem with subtitles,
:04:59. > :05:09.seek out the original version. Now we go to Michael Moore, and Where To
:05:10. > :05:13.Invade Next? . He is best known for Bowling for Columbine. This is a
:05:14. > :05:17.polemic documentary. He visits a number of countries under the guise
:05:18. > :05:25.of, because he's American, he's going to invade these countries and
:05:26. > :05:33.then steal from them some ideas, in France he sees things about healthy
:05:34. > :05:41.eating in schools, and workers' rights in Germany. Here is a clip.
:05:42. > :06:02.If your employer pays you for all of this time of? -- time off.
:06:03. > :06:18.Where To Invade Next? -- THEY SPEAK ITALIAN. Italians have one of the
:06:19. > :06:27.highest life expectancy is in the world. They live four years longer
:06:28. > :06:33.than the average American. The strange thing about this film, it
:06:34. > :06:37.has many ideas that I agree with, workers' rights, children's rights,
:06:38. > :06:42.women's rights. Philosophically I am completely in tune with the film.
:06:43. > :06:47.But there is this ongoing comedic conceit that Michael Moore is going
:06:48. > :06:50.there with this flag, he has to invade these other countries, at the
:06:51. > :06:55.beginning he says this is what I'm going to do. It is not a very good
:06:56. > :07:02.joke. He then proceeds to do it for the duration of the film. There are
:07:03. > :07:06.these interesting ways of looking at the way that societies look after
:07:07. > :07:10.their populations in a way that is perhaps superior to the way America
:07:11. > :07:18.does it, but these comic interludes do not really work. It is talking
:07:19. > :07:22.about a subject close to my heart, but in a way that feels like it is
:07:23. > :07:27.oversimplifying it, talking to an audience that doesn't know anything
:07:28. > :07:30.about this. The problem with that is, there is substance here that I
:07:31. > :07:38.agree with, interesting interviews, I just wish that it wasn't tied up
:07:39. > :07:42.in this rather aggravating conceit. And I wish that Michael Moore would
:07:43. > :07:46.take himself out of the picture. He is the thing that I like least about
:07:47. > :07:51.his documentaries. There is stuff in there, but it is the delivered in a
:07:52. > :07:55.way that I find aggravating. But if you're a fan of Michael Moore... It
:07:56. > :08:00.is more of the same and you will absolutely love it. If you are me,
:08:01. > :08:04.you will think, I could have lost all of the stuff featuring Hugh and
:08:05. > :08:10.the flag, Frank Lee. Let's talk about your best movie out at the
:08:11. > :08:20.moment. It is this adaptation of an early novella by Jane Austen, Love
:08:21. > :08:24.and Friendship. What I loved about this film was, it is really funny.
:08:25. > :08:30.Many movies claim to be, these, but for sheer laughs terminate this
:08:31. > :08:35.beats all of them hands down. It is made by somebody whose films always
:08:36. > :08:42.have a kind of Jane Austen perspective. He's always had that
:08:43. > :08:48.dry, satirical humour. Tom Bennett almost steals the show as this very
:08:49. > :08:52.sort of dim-witted character who, at the beginning is the butt of all the
:08:53. > :08:57.jokes, but manages to turn this into a great comic creation. It is called
:08:58. > :09:01.Love and Friendship. It is the funniest film in the cinema and the
:09:02. > :09:08.most politely impolite movie of the year. Another hit. We will try and
:09:09. > :09:20.think about that one. And the best DVD out at the moment, this is The
:09:21. > :09:25.Revenant. You might not want to because it is not my kind of thing.
:09:26. > :09:29.Leonardo DiCaprio plays this man who was left for dead after being
:09:30. > :09:35.attacked by a bear, then he has to go on this journey of survival, a
:09:36. > :09:39.story that has been told before in the cinema. You have to see this on
:09:40. > :09:43.the big screen to understand this cinematography, you have to see it
:09:44. > :09:55.as a completely immersive experience. On the small screen, it
:09:56. > :10:00.is still worth seeing because of Will Poulter, who is a great part of
:10:01. > :10:07.an ensemble cast. He is fabulous in it. It is an immersive experience.
:10:08. > :10:12.It is more immersive in the cinema but it is still worth seeing. It is
:10:13. > :10:17.not a film that you think it is going to be. That's a problem with
:10:18. > :10:24.the big, cinematic movie, when you watch them on a little TV at home,
:10:25. > :10:27.it is not quite the same. Actually, nowadays, many people have home
:10:28. > :10:33.viewing systems that are probably superior to the small screen.
:10:34. > :10:38.Private cinemas. The other thing is, when you watch something at home on
:10:39. > :10:44.the couch, you don't have to put up with people talking on their mobile
:10:45. > :10:47.phones and eating popcorn. For me, the cinema experience is still
:10:48. > :10:50.primary, but it is possible to have a completely satisfying home viewing
:10:51. > :10:56.experience and if you're going to watch The Revenant at home watch it
:10:57. > :11:00.with the sound turned up on the biggest possible screen and don't
:11:01. > :11:13.wander off and have a cup of tea. But go and see When Marnie Was
:11:14. > :11:16.There, love and friendship, and Embrace of the Serpent. The only one
:11:17. > :11:22.I am lukewarm about is the Michael Moore phone. A quick reminder that
:11:23. > :11:34.you will find more film news and reviews across the BBC online on the
:11:35. > :11:48.website. That is it for this week. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.
:11:49. > :11:54.Hello there, we have had a mixture of weather today. Some world in the
:11:55. > :11:55.sunshine but some heavy, thundery downpours as