:00:00. > :00:00.Now, Mark Kermode give his verdicts on the latest releases in the Film
:00:00. > :00:29.Welcome to the film review on BBC News. We take us through this
:00:30. > :00:34.week's cinema releases. What do we have? A mixed bag. 20,000 days on
:00:35. > :00:36.earth, a kind of fictionalised portrait of a day in the life of
:00:37. > :00:46.Nick Cave. The right club, based on the stage
:00:47. > :00:51.play, Posh. And the latest from Woody Allen. Magic in the moonlight.
:00:52. > :01:05.Nick Cave. RU a fan? Ish. Will I be, once I have seen this film?
:01:06. > :01:11.This is something you can enjoy as a piece of cinema. This is a
:01:12. > :01:15.fictionalised documentary. He's been honoured with 20,000 days, mid`50s
:01:16. > :01:20.rock star. It takes the form of a day in the life of Nick Cave. You
:01:21. > :01:24.see him driving around the streets of Brighton, his adopted home, we
:01:25. > :01:27.see him having lunch with Warren Ellis, and we see him having
:01:28. > :01:30.conversations with people like Ray Winstone. And we see him going
:01:31. > :01:38.through an archive of his past and ruminating on what it meant. Here is
:01:39. > :01:45.a clip. That's me and Kylie, wearing shorts there. What happened with
:01:46. > :01:49.Kylie? I wrote this song and I wanted her to sing on it and we were
:01:50. > :01:53.just trying to find out how to get to Kylie, and she had management
:01:54. > :01:57.that was very protective of her and her image in all of that sort of
:01:58. > :02:01.thing. But she happened to be going out with Michael Hutchence. We
:02:02. > :02:07.managed to get hold of Michael, and she was sitting next to him when we
:02:08. > :02:12.rang, and we said, can Kylie come in and sing a song for us? We ended up
:02:13. > :02:21.on top of the Pops. That whole event around Kylie kind of lives in this
:02:22. > :02:25.weird bubble. Where life, for that brief time, was kind of different
:02:26. > :02:29.because we were suddenly thrown into this weird situation of having a hit
:02:30. > :02:33.record and then, obviously, people bought the album and listen to it.
:02:34. > :02:37.And then they realised that that would be the last time they would
:02:38. > :02:47.have anything to do with Nick Cave and the bad seeds. `` Bad Seeds. But
:02:48. > :02:49.for me, it was a big moment in time. That is one of the most
:02:50. > :02:55.straightforward moments, the rest of it is a lot more out of this. There
:02:56. > :03:00.is more Thera `` theatre. `` a lot more artifice. There are strange
:03:01. > :03:04.conversations with Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone and it's like a
:03:05. > :03:07.performance piece. You get the idea with rock documentaries of them
:03:08. > :03:13.lifting the veil and showing you the real person, but what this does is
:03:14. > :03:17.through theatre and artifice, and it is a piece of film`making,
:03:18. > :03:25.fictionalised documentary, it gets oddly closer to the truth in the way
:03:26. > :03:30.that a fictional film might be, like Performance, told us more about Mick
:03:31. > :03:34.Jagger, or the man who fell to Earth told us more about David Bowie. It
:03:35. > :03:38.is more about the creation of his art. He talks about the fact that
:03:39. > :03:41.through his screenplays and novels he has created an alternative world
:03:42. > :03:44.in which she believes in the forces of good and evil, and the
:03:45. > :03:48.documentary has a similar take on the reality of his life. It's also a
:03:49. > :03:55.film about Brighton. If you saw the film about the Man whose mind
:03:56. > :03:59.exploded, this film has a lot in common with that. It's about the
:04:00. > :04:02.idea of Brighton and the idea of somebody creating art which is a lot
:04:03. > :04:07.to do with memory within the landscape. None of it is to be taken
:04:08. > :04:11.at face value. It is all a performance. But that is kind of
:04:12. > :04:15.what you want from a performer like Nick Cave. I was going to ask
:04:16. > :04:20.whether there was a balance between what it reveals and what it
:04:21. > :04:23.conceals? It reveals what it does reveal by concealing. The whole
:04:24. > :04:28.thing that makes Nick Cave interesting is his art and the
:04:29. > :04:33.artifice. The documentary seems happy with that. It taxi quite funny
:04:34. > :04:35.and beautiful to look at. `` it is actually quite funny. It's a very
:04:36. > :04:43.interesting film and you don't have to be a fan of Nick Cave to get that
:04:44. > :04:47.out of it. That is that one. The Riot Club has been adapted from the
:04:48. > :04:52.stage play, and it's the story of Oxford tops to their great
:04:53. > :04:55.resemblance to the Burlington club, and they get together, they are
:04:56. > :04:59.massively overprivileged, and they go into a room above a pub and they
:05:00. > :05:06.have a meal and they behave appallingly. The film is a satire on
:05:07. > :05:08.privilege and is a satire on that whole slightly archaic idea of
:05:09. > :05:18.overprivileged toffs behaving terribly. The stage play was an
:05:19. > :05:23.incendiary experience, but this suffers from not knowing how nasty
:05:24. > :05:28.to make the characters. You have to have a really good reason for asking
:05:29. > :05:31.to spend 90 minutes in the company of people this obnoxious, so where
:05:32. > :05:37.is the satire? The famous thing about the Bullingdon Club is that
:05:38. > :05:40.many politicians came out of it, and many have done very well for
:05:41. > :05:43.themselves, and the film does definitely portray these characters
:05:44. > :05:49.as pretty loathsome, but it also wants you to kind of sympathise with
:05:50. > :05:53.the new incumbent. It sort of gets lost in not knowing quite how nasty
:05:54. > :05:58.to be. That said, the performances are good and there is a scene
:05:59. > :06:02.stealing cameo by Tom Hollander who is terrific as the ex`club member
:06:03. > :06:06.who is now an MP, who seems terribly familiar. I am guessing we have to
:06:07. > :06:13.pick the clip carefully. Yes, I think so. It is rich kids behaving
:06:14. > :06:18.badly. Woody Allen, Colin Firth, what's wrong to light `` not to
:06:19. > :06:21.like? Woody Allen always said he loved conjuring acts as a kid and
:06:22. > :06:25.he's dealt with magic in the work before. It's the 1920s, south of
:06:26. > :06:30.France, Colin Firth is a magician on stage and has this character who is
:06:31. > :06:34.a sceptic but does not relate `` believe in magic in the real world
:06:35. > :06:39.and he is called upon by a friend to divide `` debunker clairvoyant who,
:06:40. > :06:46.we are told is actually in touch with the other side for real. There
:06:47. > :06:50.is a clip. `` here is a clip. Good evening. I understand you are
:06:51. > :06:53.holding a seance tonight. She's been waiting for the right moment and now
:06:54. > :06:57.she says the planets are in alignment. Why do they have to be in
:06:58. > :07:03.alignment and what with? Your vertebrae? You cannot do the seance
:07:04. > :07:08.if someone in the room is a nonbeliever. When you contact the
:07:09. > :07:12.spirits, will we be able to see the souls, and how are they different
:07:13. > :07:18.from ghosts? Or are they ghost? I should think souls are different.
:07:19. > :07:23.Have you ever heard of ectoplasm? Isn't that a bit like yoghurt? You
:07:24. > :07:27.are a joker. So it looks like yoghurt but it will actually be her
:07:28. > :07:33.former husband. The funny thing about this is that is that it is a
:07:34. > :07:39.sweet film, lots of chuckles if not belly laughs, and it feels a bit
:07:40. > :07:43.lightweight compared to Blue Jasmine. I don't mind that about it
:07:44. > :07:47.and it looks beautiful, and you saw it coming out with the Sony lenses.
:07:48. > :07:53.It looks like an old movie, and Colin Firth does that brittle,
:07:54. > :07:56.difficult character very well. The problem, if there is one, is you
:07:57. > :08:00.won't remember it for very long. We will see it, like it whilst it's
:08:01. > :08:05.there, but once it has gone, it is gone. It's like a magic trick, it
:08:06. > :08:10.makes itself disappear. Occasionally plonks around like a stage magician
:08:11. > :08:14.doing something contrived. But it is sweet natured, I smiled, I love the
:08:15. > :08:19.couple times and Wally Alan's rate of output is so extraordinary, filmy
:08:20. > :08:25.year, every year, they can't be classics `` Woody Allen's rate of
:08:26. > :08:34.Albert. It's a nice stopgap. `` rate of output. I saw an underwhelming
:08:35. > :08:40.tag line, a piece of love. What is the best film out there at the
:08:41. > :08:44.moment? Pride is the best film. You can also see one of the actors in
:08:45. > :08:49.The Riot Club. It's a terrific story about lesbian and gay men supporting
:08:50. > :08:54.the miners, based on a true story. It's uplifting and I'm politically
:08:55. > :08:58.inclined to like it anyway. The 1980s as a special time and all
:08:59. > :09:04.that, but it's funny, it's smart, its sharp, it's political, it's
:09:05. > :09:08.sensitive. You laugh, you cry, and it's terrific. I would encourage
:09:09. > :09:11.everybody to see it, whatever your political persuasion. Telling a
:09:12. > :09:17.story that might surprise as well. Anyone under the age of 20, go and
:09:18. > :09:24.see it, and they find this stuff out the first, which is great. That's
:09:25. > :09:29.the best film. What about DVDs? This is shaping up as my favourite of the
:09:30. > :09:35.year. Frank, inspired by the legend Frank Sidebottom, but also captained
:09:36. > :09:44.the heart and Daniel Johnson. `` Captain beef heart. It is a one`off
:09:45. > :09:48.musical bio pic, like 20,000 Days on Earth does, some things are true,
:09:49. > :09:53.some things are fictional, and it creates something special. For me,
:09:54. > :09:59.Frank is a standout. Michael Fassbender spends the whole film
:10:00. > :10:03.almost with the Frank Sidebottom head covering his features and never
:10:04. > :10:09.once do you think you need to see his head. It's an extraordinary
:10:10. > :10:13.piece of work. Good stuff. Thank you, Mark. A quick reminder that you
:10:14. > :10:18.can go and find more film news and reviews from across the BBC online,
:10:19. > :10:21.including all the preview shows. That is it for this week. So thanks
:10:22. > :10:24.very much for watching. Goodbye.