:00:00. > :00:21.That is all the sport, now it is time for the film review. Hall hello
:00:22. > :00:27.and welcome to the film review on BBC News. To take us through the
:00:28. > :00:33.cinema releases, Mark Kermode. What we have? We have Belle, which the
:00:34. > :00:40.critics have been raving about. We have Devils not, the new film from
:00:41. > :00:49.Atom Egoyan, every creation of a real life crime. And we have The
:00:50. > :00:54.Young and Prodigious TS Spivet, a title that does not trip off the
:00:55. > :00:59.tongue, from Jean`Pierre Jeunet. Belle, the critics loved it?
:01:00. > :01:05.Directed by Amma Asante, who has done a terrific job. The film is a
:01:06. > :01:10.mixture of fact and fiction about a character who grew up in Kenwood
:01:11. > :01:14.house. She was the daughter of a naval captain and an African woman,
:01:15. > :01:21.taken under the care of her uncle, who happened to be Lord Chief
:01:22. > :01:24.Justice. Lord Mansfield. She grew up in Kenwood house and that was a
:01:25. > :01:27.famous painting of her and her half cousin. The painting is remarkable
:01:28. > :01:31.because they appear to be on an equal social status. The writer and
:01:32. > :01:35.director have looked at this painting and have delved back in
:01:36. > :01:38.time and examined her life. Very little was known about her although
:01:39. > :01:41.we know a lot about Lord Mansfield and what was going on at the time,
:01:42. > :01:45.with the abolitionist movement was strong at the end of the slave
:01:46. > :01:49.trade. And they have created a fictional story around the bare
:01:50. > :01:55.bones of that. About this woman's extraordinary circumstance,
:01:56. > :01:58.imagining what life must have been like, trying to find a place in a
:01:59. > :02:02.society very much like a character in a Jane Austen novel but with a
:02:03. > :02:12.great historical twist. Here is a clip. We are to finally come out?
:02:13. > :02:19.Elizabeth is to come out. Dido is not. Why? You understand the ways of
:02:20. > :02:24.the world for a female, Dido? Elizabeth has no income. You are to
:02:25. > :02:28.meet as many gentlemen as possible before we make the match. When all
:02:29. > :02:34.this has gone to her father, there will be nothing left for her. And
:02:35. > :02:38.me? Any gentleman of good breeding would be unlikely to form a serious
:02:39. > :02:46.attachment to Dido and a man without would lower her position in society.
:02:47. > :02:51.But she is not merely my cousin, she is my sister. These are the keys of
:02:52. > :02:55.the house. Cannot attend London without her. They have hung to your
:02:56. > :03:00.aunt's waste for the last few years. I am not an unwonted made. Lady Mary
:03:01. > :03:04.is too old to continue in charge of the house. You may pick up your
:03:05. > :03:09.duties on your return. I will need you to keep each other out of
:03:10. > :03:18.trouble. Class and race. A rising star there,
:03:19. > :03:23.with a terrific performance as Dido. And Tom Wilkinson as Lord Mansfield.
:03:24. > :03:26.And what it manages to do is to say OK, let's take an important story
:03:27. > :03:34.about class and race and gender and let's dress it up like a costume
:03:35. > :03:39.drama. Let's treat it as a Jane Austen narrative, about social
:03:40. > :03:43.position and the choice of a husband, is it possible to marry
:03:44. > :03:47.under these circumstances, and let's wed it together with social
:03:48. > :03:51.history. And I'd think it does it marvellously. Some critics have been
:03:52. > :03:55.sniffy and have said that it is a little bit saccharine. I'd disagree
:03:56. > :03:58.entirely. I was swept away and a lot of the characters. I thought the
:03:59. > :04:03.performances were traffic in the direction was precise. The director
:04:04. > :04:06.has managed to say, I want to address the widest possible audience
:04:07. > :04:11.and I want this to play to a mainstream audience. I want this to
:04:12. > :04:18.work for the people who would enjoy Denton `` Downton Abbey. I want to
:04:19. > :04:22.give them are subversive story without it appearing so. I'd think
:04:23. > :04:26.it is a terrific piece. I will like the characters and it was vibrant
:04:27. > :04:32.and lively. I cried on more than one occasion. I think it is one of the
:04:33. > :04:36.highest purposes of cinema, to move you to tears. What was interesting
:04:37. > :04:40.was like a moat of the screening and another critic said, I think I have
:04:41. > :04:44.something in my eye and a third critic said, it was just like a
:04:45. > :04:50.costume drama. Just a costume drama? What does that mean two it means
:04:51. > :04:53.that people will like it. Not a bad idea for a director. It is an
:04:54. > :05:00.enjoyable and well played movie and really intelligent. Devils not is
:05:01. > :05:05.based on quite a notorious case from 20 years ago. A celebrated case
:05:06. > :05:08.about which there have already been four documentaries and several
:05:09. > :05:15.books. It is a terrible, terrible murder case. Three young boys were
:05:16. > :05:18.murdered in 1993 and subsequently their work convictions of three
:05:19. > :05:31.people caught up in what looked like a witchhunt about Satanism. This
:05:32. > :05:36.film follows the aftermath of the crime, in which there is a court
:05:37. > :05:39.case and it is apparent that the police's job has not been done
:05:40. > :05:41.properly. Leeds have not been followed up and witnesses have not
:05:42. > :05:46.been properly questioned. People have confessed and then retracted
:05:47. > :05:50.confessions. The film is intelligently rectify at Omega Ryan,
:05:51. > :05:54.has addressed at this difficult subject matter before. ``
:05:55. > :05:59.intelligently directed by Atom Egoyan. But do not know what it
:06:00. > :06:03.brings to the subject that the documentaries did not. The
:06:04. > :06:07.documentary brought to our attention what an appalling case it was. I do
:06:08. > :06:11.not know what the dramatisation brings to it. The case is so well
:06:12. > :06:18.known and has been the subject of such public interest, and people
:06:19. > :06:24.have delved into it so far. In the end, the film says we don't know
:06:25. > :06:27.what happened but let's look at the aftermath. Fine, but the
:06:28. > :06:32.documentaries did this better. Gugu Mbatha`Raw, the new film by
:06:33. > :06:39.John PL Jenny `` ?Devil Knot, the new film by Jean`Pierre Jeunet. The
:06:40. > :06:42.title character is a young boy who lives with his mother and father, a
:06:43. > :06:47.cowboy. He is about to invent a perpetual motion machine and the
:06:48. > :06:51.Colts to Washington. It is OK, it is a fantasy. That would be quite a big
:06:52. > :06:59.deal! It is not meant to be real. Here is a clip.
:07:00. > :07:09.The human had life `` is head lice beyond... When you're drunk legs,
:07:10. > :07:12.make sure to observe not just how many there are but the exact
:07:13. > :07:20.distance between them. The exact distance between them. Beware of
:07:21. > :07:29.mediocrity, the fungus of the mind. We must constantly fight against it.
:07:30. > :07:41.Dina! It got away. Here, Nicola Su to catch him. `` make a last Su. He
:07:42. > :07:46.turns everything that is beyond his mental grasp into one big joke. This
:07:47. > :07:51.is described as a 3D adventure. You know how I'd feel about 3D. One of
:07:52. > :07:55.my few exceptions, Hugo, the Martin Scorsese film, which was about the
:07:56. > :07:59.workings of clocks and automatons, this is very similar. The use the
:08:00. > :08:05.same stereo prefer. As with so much of Jean`Pierre Jeunet's staff, he
:08:06. > :08:08.made one of the Alien films and Amelie. It is a thumb about
:08:09. > :08:12.mechanics in which diagrams flow at the screen and you are being asked
:08:13. > :08:15.to look at the workings of any particular situation. The 3D works
:08:16. > :08:19.well because, as with Hugo, it does not attempt to draw you into the
:08:20. > :08:23.picture so much as remind you that what you are doing is watching a
:08:24. > :08:27.mechanical invention. It is like opening up a Swiss watch and looking
:08:28. > :08:32.at the workings. It is not particularly profound. I love the
:08:33. > :08:36.colour palette. I thought it was well cast and the young star is
:08:37. > :08:40.really to refer it. But the real star of the film is Jean`Pierre
:08:41. > :08:45.Jeunet's I for the study of B. What he has done, remember those few
:08:46. > :08:50.masters? He had one when he was eight and he took it apart. This is
:08:51. > :08:54.basically a grown man who has an 8`year`old used to take them apart,
:08:55. > :08:57.doing it on a big screen with a kind of fantastical children's story
:08:58. > :09:02.about a kid who invents a perpetual motion machine. I kind of liked it.
:09:03. > :09:10.It is flimsy, in an entertaining way. And a great cast. Helena Bonham
:09:11. > :09:14.Carter. She has not been banned in anything for a very long time. We
:09:15. > :09:17.have talked about Jimmy is hole before but it is terrific. If you
:09:18. > :09:23.have not seen it, Ken Loach's latest. He has had some spats with
:09:24. > :09:26.critics lately where he said he thought the critics should be placed
:09:27. > :09:35.by real people but you cannot argue with Jimmy Saul. It is a great film
:09:36. > :09:39.about a great place in Ireland, a crew `` a free space. It has singing
:09:40. > :09:43.and dancing and you like the characters. It is fun! Grief! It is
:09:44. > :09:50.funny that people portray Ken Loach's movies as publicity is but
:09:51. > :09:53.it is lively and vibrant. And it is good fun with a serious point. The
:09:54. > :09:58.invisible woman, a lot of people might have missed it when it was in
:09:59. > :10:01.the cinema. It is a film with a historical back`up, about Charles
:10:02. > :10:06.Dickens. It is about his relationship with his mistress. And
:10:07. > :10:13.I think what liked about it once it is very underplayed, a film of tiny
:10:14. > :10:16.gestures and tiny movements. At no point does it feel the need to be
:10:17. > :10:19.brash or military mattock. It sees significance in the smallest
:10:20. > :10:26.gestures. Very well played and well directed. And again, an interesting
:10:27. > :10:29.story about what it means to be someone's mistress, in a society in
:10:30. > :10:34.which you do not have marital privileges. It does have a solid
:10:35. > :10:39.underpinning but in the end, it is a human drama about people that you
:10:40. > :10:43.come to care about. And also, Dickens' life story is a great
:10:44. > :10:48.story. The secret mistress, there was that wonderful book on which
:10:49. > :10:53.this is based. It has taken liberties with what we know but it
:10:54. > :10:58.is very believable. Everyone plays a very believably. And I love the
:10:59. > :11:03.direction is so restrained. It does not overstate anything. And Ray
:11:04. > :11:08.finds is a fine director as well as an actor. `` Ralph Fiennes. A quick
:11:09. > :11:16.reminder that you will find more film news and reviews from Mark on
:11:17. > :11:18.his BBC blog. That is it from us for this week. Thank you for watching
:11:19. > :11:33.and goodbye. Good evening. The weekend is almost
:11:34. > :11:37.upon us. And it has been sunny and warm in the South recently. Is it
:11:38. > :11:42.going to last? Do not think so. It will turn cooler but it is not a
:11:43. > :11:46.write off by any means. A lot of dry weather in spite of a fair bit of
:11:47. > :11:50.cloud. You can see the cloud across the North but also you can see that
:11:51. > :11:51.it is making progress southwards. Turning lumpy across the