Mustang, Everybody Wants Some!!, Green Room The Film Review

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a dog. That fund sports day at 6:30pm. Now it is time for The Film

Review. Hello and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Mark Kermode. We have Mustang which was nominated

for Best foreign language film earlier on this year. We have

Everybody Wants Some, a new film by Richard Linklater. And Green room, a

horror thriller from the director of Blue Ruin. Mustang centres on a

group of Turkish sisters who are confined to their house by their

uncle. He turned their home into what the voice-over describes as a

wife factory, preventing their education. The girls of vibrant

untameable spirits and don't want to be contained. They find ways of

working around this repression. In one sequence, they sneak out of the

house to go and see a football match from which male spectators have been

banned for bad behaviour. They look like they have got away with it but

unfortunately the TV cameras are there. Which means their uncle might

find out. I haven't seen this but I'm hooked

on that. What's terrific, although it has those moments of vibrant

comedy, it also deals with very dark subject matter, with the removal of

women's rights, with what happens to the girls and what it's like to be

in that kind of confinement. Like Girlhood, it is directed with

compassion and empathy for the five characters who are just to rhetoric.

It was one of those films in which in the beginning you see their

freedom, them being outdoors and being around in the world and then

you see their world being reduced around them, until they end up being

shot inside. I thought it was really terrific. Although it deals with a

difficult subject, it does so in a way that is very life affirming. And

really enjoyable, really well played and really sensitively directed.

Will people get a chance to see it? You can stream it. It is playing. It

is a film that's really worth finding. A lot of people will be

waiting for Everybody Wants Some by Richard Linklater. The! 'S come from

the title of the film. This is the spiritual successor to Dazed and

Confused. It is played out in a no man's land. It's got all the period

detail. Also as you would expect from Linklater brilliant use of

music starting off with my shoe rain and working through disco and a bit

of new wave. My problem is this. The people on screen mean almost nothing

to me. Richard Linklater feels nostalgic for them but to me they

are misogynist jocks whose misogyny we are meant to take because hey,

they are misogynist jocks and that's fine. Considering his work in films

like Boyhood, it is surprisingly to seek a film where there are no

three-dimensional female characters and we are expected to play along

with the sub porkies... Animal house? At least animal house was

what it was. It's quite funny but when Linklater is that his best he

touches upon human truths. In the case of this I think he's been

blinded by nostalgia. I found no way into it and I ended up admiring the

period detail which is the point at which you know the film isn't

working for you. Boyhood it ain't by quite some distance. It might be a

generational thing. It might be that not everybody feels are sympathetic

towards that group of jocks as Linklater. I suspect also the

college system portrayed there, the fraternities and sororities, we do

have those there. I have seen 5-star reviews from other people. They are

wrong but there we go. LAUGHTER Other people are wrong? We never say

that! Green rim and neo-Nazis. You remember how much I was impressed by

Blue Ruin. This is from the same director, Jeremy Saulnier. This is

about characters in the Pacific Northwest, they get offered a gig in

a remote place to the beats and braces crowd. The supremacist logos

on the wall tells them they are perhaps not going to have the

easiest ride. They played a gig and then retired to the green rim where

they stumble upon a horrible crime to which they have become

inadvertent witnesses and it's clear they are not going anywhere.

There has been a stabbing! You didn't lock the door! Don't talk and

don't touch them. Stay put. It's fine. Just give me a minute.

Something terrible... They are effectively barricaded by themselves

into the Green Room by themselves. They are surrounded by these violent

hordes. How do they get out? Stylistically it is a mash up

between Precinct 13 and Deliverance. The tension which the film builds,

and it's really tense, is broken by sudden and random eruptions of

violence that were portrayed in a way that reminded me of the early

films of Wes Craven. If you have violence on screen it should be

shocking. There were some moments when I got out loud as did the rest

of the cinema. There's a brilliant performance by Patrick Stewart as

the leader of the supremacist mob who has a sinister way of talking

quite quietly, and talking almost in a Shakespearean tones, something

gentlemanly which makes it all the more terrifying. A brilliant

supporting performance by an actor who was great in Blue Ruin. In this

he plays Patrick Stewart's underling. Although he's on the

wrong side, there's something haunting pathetic about him. What

Jeremy Saulnier eight manages to do is make this into a gripping

thriller. It is genuinely shocking but also, to constantly remind you

that you have to care about the people and you have to feel their

pain in order for it to work. It's very intense. One of the great

things about the United States is the tribes. There are all these

tribes and there really are white supremacists, grunge bangs and

punks. And occasionally they rub up against each other. The director did

in fact serve time in a punk band so he knows the scene. The music is

done very well. Interestingly, the hard-core stuff is also off set by

this moody, pulsate in score which minded me of John Carpenter, late

1970s vibe. I thought it was really intense. I've seen a lot of horror

movies but I was both horrified and thrilled. It's not an easy watch

it's a solid watch. Horrified and thrilled the balance. Now your best

is fun and school. I've been talking about this for a few weeks. -- son

of school. It is set in Auschwitz, it won the foreign-language Oscar.

It deals with an unspeakable subject in a way that I think is profoundly

moral. Claude Landman said he thinks it has found a way of dealing with

the subject. It is a serious, important film. It will take you a

long time to recover from but it's really worth seeing because it's a

very fine piece of work. And your DVD pick is The Hateful Eight.

Watching this particular Tarantino on DVD with useful because you can

spin through the first 25 minutes, in my view. The reason I chose it is

because I was sniffy in the cinema, because it is too long. At the

start. Yes. Once you get into the haberdashery, there are some great

performances, Samuel L Jackson is brilliant. There is a wonderful

score which lifts rift the Root riffs from ten... So much of it is

good but it's a shame there is too much of it. There is a degree of

islands. You will find more film news on BBC

online. Catch up with our previous shows on I player. That's it for

this week, thank you for watching. Enjoy the movies, goodbye.