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Welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. What do we have? We spread

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around the world. This is Neil Jordan's latest wealth into deep

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vampire genre, Byzantium. We are off to South America. We go to

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Argentina for a tale of two Viggo Mortensen, playing with twin

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brothers. Finally, we're back in Britain for

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a tale of corrupt cops played by brothers, Paul Bettany and Stephen

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Graham up in a Brad James Girling. -- Blood. This was filmed in

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Hastings? Spooky turn. The British seaside it is a sort of location

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deep film director has films before. Mona Lisa had that British seaside

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element in the 80s. It reminded me quite a lot of that film which was

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one of my favourite in that era. It is a vampire movie. Gemma Arterton

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plays a mother vampire with her daughter, or Saoirse Ronan. They

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are quite close in age, this mother and daughter. They are up to 100

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years old, at least. They are looking very good. They are living

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in a bordello called the Byzantium. Saoirse Ronan is going to school,

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trying to learn how to be a vampire. She writes essays to head teacher

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about her vampire identity. This is worrying to the teacher. She caused

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the mother to see what is going on. I was hoping to arrange a much more

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official meeting. What is the problem? Eleanor wrote her life

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story. She is quite insistent that it is true. I do not expected to be

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flattered by tears. She described here as a sort of vampire. She has

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got a great imagination. I hope she gets top marks. Who else has read

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it? You have sole care of her, don't you? I am doing just fine.

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am a big Neil Jordan fran. I loved Mona Lisa. He did Interview With A

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Vampire. Vampire movies, there are so many. What does this have?

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problem is I do not know the rules anymore. It used to be crosses and

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garlic and sunlight. Now the rules have changed. Every film has the

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new rules. I was not quite sure what the rules were in this one.

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The two leaves, Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan are terrific together.

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It is sexy, kind of wild. It has the visual that Neil Jordan is

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known for. Those things are very striking. I am not sure what they

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meant. There is a flashback structure where Jonny Lee Miller

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plays old swashbucklers. He first turned Gemma Arterton into a

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Corazon and sentenced her to a life of being a vampire. -- courtesan.

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It does not make sense. It takes away from what is rather a good

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movie. It is different. Everybody Has A Plan they do, apparently.

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Viggo Mortensen's plan is to take the place of his twin brother. He

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plays a board doctor in Buenos Aires. He gets a visit from his

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brother, who is caught up in some shady business in the delta where

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they grew up in the jungle. He decides to take Pedro's place. It

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gives Viggo Mortensen a chance to play brothers and to show what the

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fact he can speak very good Spanish. He was born in Argentina so he

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speaks the dialect of the region. Everyone has a twin? I am resistant

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to twin the movies. It is one of the West dings and ageing can save.

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-- worst thing as an agent can save. This is a boring tour in. That is

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the worst one? There is a lot of atmosphere. The Ripper is stagnant,

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but it mirrors the plot. It is quite bogged down. Viggo Mortensen

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is very handsome but he is prone to gazing into a mirror a lot. He

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realises he is becoming his twin. It gets bogged down, unfortunately.

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Might give that one a miss. Brad James Girling is also about

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siblings. -- bladder back. We have siblings played by Paul Bettany and

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Stephen Graham. I did not know on what planet these two could ever be

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brothers. One is from Liverpool and the other is from London. By no

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stretch of the imagination can be his brothers beat Madden brothers,

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except in this cop thriller. -- beat blood brothers. Stephen Graham

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does a London accent in tears. They played cop brothers to have been

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mired in corruption because they covered up a murder. Their so

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mismatched as siblings. They have to get Paul Bettany to stand low on

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the stairs. Good morning. D he mean? -- do you hear me? Joe Mercer

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as she wants to get married. are getting married? Gemma has

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Hi, I'm Claudia-Liza, live with your late night check on the

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Saturday sport. finally given a fighting you off.

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Ruler of the World was on top of the world at Epsom. The horse,

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds

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He concede the grandeur of the City Hall. -- you can see. It is a kind

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of Greek tragedy. There are a lot of ideas but it is hampered by this

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mismatched brothers. Your best of the week is Beware of Mr Baker. I

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would like to see this but I did not want to meet Ginger Baker.

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is not a great human being. The man who made the documentary, at the

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sound of the mid-, at Ginger Baker acquits him by smashing a walking

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stick straight into his face for inquiring about him. It is still a

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very fine and music documentary. He is a brilliant drummer who played

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with Cream and Fela Kuti. Quite extraordinary. It was an

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extraordinary fusion, rock drummer. I think he might be Animal from the

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Muppets. I think he is based on Ginger Baker. I thought it was a

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real-life the Spinal tap. It is also about the sadness of the man

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