:00:32. > :00:37.Or welcome mac to Film Review on BBC News. We have Ryan Gosling
:00:38. > :00:47.revving up to play an all-American hero or an outlaw in The Place
:00:48. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :01:01.Beyond the Pines. It is a new indie film. We also have Tom Cruise's new
:01:01. > :01:06.movie. They can get to that in a minute.
:01:06. > :01:12.The Place Beyond the Pines sounds like a great watch. I people say it
:01:12. > :01:19.is the best film I have seen this year, so far. -- I will say. I did
:01:19. > :01:27.not know much about the film before I saw it. I do not want to spoil it
:01:27. > :01:34.for people. This is about Ryan Gosling who plays an outlaw who
:01:34. > :01:39.becomes a bank robber. Then the film changes pace. It comes -- it
:01:39. > :01:45.becomes about the police officer who used to chase him. Then it
:01:45. > :01:49.changes again and talks about another generation of criminals. It
:01:50. > :01:54.is completely surprising in every turn up. The clip we are looking at
:01:54. > :02:01.his Bradley Cooper dealing with police corruption. Is he heroic?
:02:01. > :02:10.That is the question. This was recovered from my house during a
:02:10. > :02:20.search. Just a small fraction of what is going on. Don't say another
:02:20. > :02:27.
:02:27. > :02:35.What do you expect me to do with this? You are joking, right? This
:02:35. > :02:41.is not my problem. This is your problem. I am bringing it to your
:02:41. > :02:46.attention because that is what I am supposed to do! Is that right?
:02:46. > :02:54.Write about other police officers? This is unbelievable. Get this out
:02:54. > :03:04.of here! Bradley Cooper is terrific. He is building on his reputation.
:03:04. > :03:10.
:03:10. > :03:17.plays a police officer who is uprights and right-thinking. Does
:03:17. > :03:22.he get into the ways of the cops? This maybe is very smart. It is
:03:22. > :03:28.about the wrath of. Ryan Gosling has a long it love-story at the
:03:28. > :03:33.start. It is also about the legacy you leave behind. And how those
:03:33. > :03:38.things can be muddled over a period. And how history will see you. I
:03:38. > :03:45.thought it was really smart, beautifully done. It stars Ryan
:03:45. > :03:50.Gosling with his top off. People will go for that. He does that a
:03:50. > :03:54.lot. It is about creating is a hero figure that cinema does it really
:03:54. > :04:00.well. I saw one reviews said he is the
:04:01. > :04:09.Steve McQueen of the 21st century. That's not bad.
:04:09. > :04:16.Let's move on. The crew is in this movie title.
:04:16. > :04:24.It is a strange film. It is by a young American film maker. He is
:04:24. > :04:31.part of this new young in secret that is growing up in America. --
:04:31. > :04:38.indie crew. It is like an American Psycho in Paris. It is the dark
:04:38. > :04:43.flipside of romantic American films. Here is a young student who goes to
:04:43. > :04:48.Paris for a gap year to recover from a relationship. He finds
:04:48. > :04:52.himself completely alienated. He did not know where he can turn. He
:04:52. > :04:57.finds that he can create a new identity for himself. He takes up
:04:57. > :05:02.with a prostitute, he stays with friends, he smokes a lot. He does
:05:02. > :05:12.do know what he can do. He decides this power is rather frightening.
:05:12. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:18.He grows into the monster of bed the title pretence that he is.
:05:18. > :05:24.-- the monster that he pretence he is in the title.
:05:24. > :05:29.Is he going to become a Kirra? That question is always lingering. It is
:05:29. > :05:33.very well done. Loads of great music. Lots of sex.
:05:33. > :05:38.It is difficult when you don't like the central character.
:05:38. > :05:45.It tells you from the start in the title.
:05:45. > :05:51.Films have done it before. They do not make him likeable. They
:05:51. > :05:56.make no concessions. That is why I like this from. It is not lovable
:05:56. > :06:00.but it is enjoyable. As long edgy no going in, you're
:06:01. > :06:07.not going to lead the field. It is not a great romance.
:06:07. > :06:11.It is an anti- hero film again. It examines the hero, in a way, and
:06:11. > :06:14.what cinema stars to these creatures that dominate the screen.
:06:14. > :06:21.Now Oblivion. That is the hero.
:06:21. > :06:25.Tom Cruise is always playing the hero. Here he is.
:06:25. > :06:29.I do not know when this film is said.
:06:29. > :06:36.At the end of his voice over, explaining everything, I had no
:06:36. > :06:42.idea what was happening. It was such a confusing voice-over. No-one
:06:42. > :06:48.knew what was going on. They are in the future. He scavengers, shoots
:06:48. > :06:58.things that are invading the earth. No-one is on the earth anymore. He
:06:58. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:23.The EU have any memories? -- do you have any memories? Our job is not
:07:23. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:38.to remember. Remember? Do you remember her? That was a beacon
:07:38. > :07:45.that brought her down. We do not know who she is. Or what she is.
:07:45. > :07:50.Sorry. That is almost comedy dialogue.
:07:50. > :07:57.You can write this but you can't say it. I do not know who wrote
:07:57. > :08:07.this. Its for a five-year-old.
:08:07. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:17.He has the same T-shirt that he It is so derivative of all sci-fi,
:08:17. > :08:20.I was thinking there was a joke here somewhere. At no point does
:08:20. > :08:25.anyone laugh. I laughed.
:08:25. > :08:29.The future is a terribly miserable place, it seems.
:08:29. > :08:33.Instead of watching this film, or get the Matrix out and have another
:08:33. > :08:40.look. What I like to bat is the design of
:08:40. > :08:50.it. It was very futuristic. That was the only thing I liked about it.
:08:50. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :08:55.Your best film is a French one. Explain it.
:08:55. > :09:03.It was by a very elegant and prolific French film-maker. This
:09:03. > :09:13.one is probably his best film yet. It is a teacher in a school is
:09:13. > :09:16.trying to educate a boy in writing fiction. He goes into another
:09:16. > :09:26.person's house and the teacher becomes obsessed with this homework
:09:26. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:31.that excite Brent -- assignment. It Kristen Scott Thomas is the
:09:31. > :09:41.frustrated bourgeois housewife. She is brilliant.
:09:41. > :09:41.
:09:41. > :09:51.Talk about your DVD of the week. It is about 1945.
:09:51. > :10:01.It is archive footage filmed. It is out on DVD dissuade.
:10:01. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:17.There are a number of things one can say about this.
:10:17. > :10:25.He misses a bit in between. The winter of discontent.
:10:25. > :10:29.All of that. How can we judge this? If you judge
:10:30. > :10:37.it as a historical documentary, it is a bit of.
:10:37. > :10:42.It is very personal. He makes no It is very personal. He makes no
:10:42. > :10:47.bones about it. It is actually a bit more than that. It is asking
:10:47. > :10:51.that generation to get back that spirit. To teach, to adage -- to
:10:51. > :10:57.educate. What is really interesting is that
:10:57. > :11:02.we are all in this together. We just came through the war.
:11:02. > :11:07.just came through the war. just came through the war.
:11:07. > :11:14.me cry for black it is capable and there we have lost. -- because I