:00:19. > :00:21.Hello, and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:22. > :00:24.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:25. > :00:35.We have High Rise, an adaptation of a novel.
:00:36. > :00:44.We have Marguerite, a musical tragicomedy.
:00:45. > :00:49.And 10 Cloverfield Lane, which may or may not be related to
:00:50. > :00:54.The singing a little bit later, but before that, High Rise.
:00:55. > :01:08.The story is, Tom Hiddleston is Dr Lang.
:01:09. > :01:10.He moves into a luxury high-rise apartment which
:01:11. > :01:18.Down on the lower floors are the real families, and above him, the
:01:19. > :01:25.At the very top is the penthouse in which lives Jeremy Irons, architect.
:01:26. > :01:47.Of course, but it is far from finished.
:01:48. > :02:02.The lake is the palm and we stand on the index finger, there.
:02:03. > :02:07.I put all my energies into this tower.
:02:08. > :02:13.It looks like the unconscious diagram
:02:14. > :02:29.People have been trying to bring High Rise to the screen for decades.
:02:30. > :02:33.There was a version being worked on back in the 1970s.
:02:34. > :02:36.Now Ben Wheatley has succeeded where others have failed, but one
:02:37. > :02:40.of the most important things he and the writer have done is go back
:02:41. > :02:44.It is basically set in the 1970s, so it is looking at the past,
:02:45. > :02:51.You get this kind of strange future that has already happened,
:02:52. > :02:55.The script manages to realign but also respect the themes
:02:56. > :03:00.Tom Hiddleston is wonderfully slippery as Dr Lang.
:03:01. > :03:04.He's described by somebody as a 'self-contained threat'.
:03:05. > :03:11.On the one hand he has that matinee idol look, but on the other,
:03:12. > :03:14.I love the way the movie is designed.
:03:15. > :03:19.I love the fact that the buildings almost look like dinosaurs,
:03:20. > :03:23.with the crooked head like a lizard leaping up onto the ground.
:03:24. > :03:26.I love the way you get this brutalist
:03:27. > :03:29.interior architecture that on one hand is familiar from the '70s, but
:03:30. > :03:40.The most important thing was it managed to maintain both
:03:41. > :03:43.a creepy horror, but also the humour which we know
:03:44. > :03:50.He has always specialised in doing cross-genre movies,
:03:51. > :03:56.which will make you laugh and be shocked at the same time.
:03:57. > :03:59.There is still a very strong element of that in this, and I thought it
:04:00. > :04:02.was a really solid adaptation of a very difficult book.
:04:03. > :04:04.They have really done something interesting with it
:04:05. > :04:10.Let's move on, and we will hear some singing now, won't we?
:04:11. > :04:14.This is Marguerite, which is inspired by
:04:15. > :04:19.Florence Foster Jenkins, who is the subject of an upcoming biopic.
:04:20. > :04:27.It is about Marguerite Dumond, who as a music lover proves that
:04:28. > :05:02.The crucial thing is, that's funny, but the crucial bit is that
:05:03. > :05:08.Everyone around her tells her that she can sing and she wants
:05:09. > :05:12.People are trying to protect her, but also,
:05:13. > :05:18.Actually what she's trying to do is get the attention and love that
:05:19. > :05:24.And actually what the film does rather gently is it makes her
:05:25. > :05:32.desire to sing somehow admirable in her belief in her music.
:05:33. > :05:35.It makes it somehow wonderful - the fantasy of the music transcends the
:05:36. > :05:41.I thought it was a really interesting film.
:05:42. > :05:45.It is at times very funny and also very tragic.
:05:46. > :05:50.But it runs the knife edge between...
:05:51. > :05:53.There are sentimental moments and harsh moments, and all the way
:05:54. > :05:58.through is the sound of that voice which you actually come to love.
:05:59. > :06:01.You come to love the fact that she believes in it.
:06:02. > :06:04.And it is quite a skill to sing badly.
:06:05. > :06:10.It is really hard to do what she is doing, and she does it brilliantly.
:06:11. > :06:19.You remember Cloverfield, it is basically described
:06:20. > :06:24.as a blood relative of that film, which means it is not a sequel or
:06:25. > :06:30.In fact it is a psychological thriller that starts with the young
:06:31. > :06:37.She gets into her car and drives and wakes up in a car crash,
:06:38. > :06:42.waking up in a bunker, and the only other person there
:06:43. > :06:45.is John Goodman, who tells her, I haven't kidnapped you,
:06:46. > :07:22.I'm not sure yet if it is chemical or nuclear.
:07:23. > :07:38.Thank you so much for saving my life.
:07:39. > :07:40.I guess I should go to a hospital now.
:07:41. > :07:50.The question is, has something actually happened aboveground?
:07:51. > :07:54.There is initially just the two of them but it turns out there's
:07:55. > :07:57.a third person down there, and you wonder what they are doing.
:07:58. > :07:59.The rest of it basically plays out as
:08:00. > :08:02.a psychological story between this trio of people who you trust and
:08:03. > :08:16.One of them believes something terrible has happened above ground.
:08:17. > :08:22.However, Mary Elizabeth Winthrop's character, Michelle,
:08:23. > :08:25.thinks it is some ruse to make them not attempt
:08:26. > :08:29.It is sometimes like Broom meets the Disappearance of Alice Creed.
:08:30. > :08:32.It plays its hand very close to its chest until very late
:08:33. > :08:35.in the game and there is a certain amount of revelation.
:08:36. > :08:39.I think the best thing to do is find out as little as you can about it.
:08:40. > :08:42.I went to see it knowing little
:08:43. > :08:45.about it, even knowing that the title makes it genetically
:08:46. > :08:48.connected to Cloverfield, but it is a psychological thriller that began
:08:49. > :08:52.I think they have managed to do a very interesting job of just
:08:53. > :08:56.pitching it as being in the same postal district as that other movie.
:08:57. > :08:59.That is the best way of describing it.
:09:00. > :09:03.In terms of picking one that we must see, you are going to scare us?
:09:04. > :09:16.It is a very difficult sell, because it is a story of family in
:09:17. > :09:18.17th-century England who believe they are being preyed upon
:09:19. > :09:25.It is a psychological thriller that asks you what you are believing.
:09:26. > :09:29.There are aspects that are really disturbing and scary,
:09:30. > :09:32.but don't go expecting the kind of jump scares that everyone now
:09:33. > :09:43.The director cited his influences as Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick.
:09:44. > :09:56.I really like it, it gets under your skin, but it has proved divisive.
:09:57. > :10:01.Carol is out on DVD and I think it is a brilliant adaptation
:10:02. > :10:05.It is basically the story of a relationship between two women
:10:06. > :10:08.at a time when society was not open to their relationship.
:10:09. > :10:17.But it also has a kind of film noir sense of threat underneath it.
:10:18. > :10:22.It opens up quoting Brief Encounter and later looks like it may turn
:10:23. > :10:32.You really believe in the characters and get involved in their story and
:10:33. > :10:40.It might be the saddest thing you ever see, one critic wrote.
:10:41. > :10:43.It is sad but it is also oddly joyous and uplifting because the
:10:44. > :10:55.A quick reminder before we go that you will find more
:10:56. > :10:58.film news and reviews from across the BBC online at our website.
:10:59. > :11:01.You can catch up with our previous shows online as well.
:11:02. > :11:09.That is it for this week, so thank you very much and goodbye.