:00:29. > :00:35.Will come to the full review. To take us through this week's cinema
:00:35. > :00:42.releases its Mark Kermode. We have a very mixed bag. Behind the
:00:42. > :00:47.candelabra, which unveils the life behind Liberace. We have after it,
:00:47. > :00:51.with Will Smith and Jadon Smith, surprisingly as father and son. And
:00:51. > :00:58.we have The Iceman, another outstanding film and a true story
:00:58. > :01:02.of a cold-blooded killer. Behind The Candelabra. I asked if
:01:02. > :01:09.anybody had seen it. Nobody knew what it was. That might be a
:01:09. > :01:16.problem. I was shocked at how many people do not. I thought everybody
:01:16. > :01:21.knew who Liberace was. Michael Best getting career-best performances
:01:21. > :01:26.out of what in America was a straight to TV film. It was at the
:01:26. > :01:32.Cannes Film Festival and has now opens theatrically. It is the story
:01:32. > :01:42.of the relationship between Liberace, the celebrated pianist,
:01:42. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:49.and Scott Thorson. And the life Behind The Candelabra. Nearer Jack,
:01:49. > :01:58.I want to talk to you about to wring some surgery. If fine. What
:01:58. > :02:08.would she liked me to do? I want you to make him look like this. Can
:02:08. > :02:10.
:02:10. > :02:16.you do that? I see. Yes, I think I can do what you want. I am going to
:02:16. > :02:23.have to restructure his cheekbones and his chin. Silicon implants. But
:02:23. > :02:33.it is not impossible. But first, you have to slim him down. I have a
:02:33. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:44.terrific diet. Of a Californian diet. Guaranteed loss of 15 in four
:02:44. > :02:48.
:02:48. > :02:52.I see what you mean about career- best performance. There is the old
:02:52. > :02:59.fashioned technique of bits of cellophane. What you see from that
:03:00. > :03:03.clip is the different levels of the film. It is funny, and there is a
:03:03. > :03:11.lot of extravagance. There is a moment at the beginning of the film
:03:11. > :03:15.when Matt Damon goes to see Liberace. It is amazing the
:03:15. > :03:21.straight audiences it accepting something so gay. But they do not
:03:21. > :03:26.know he is gay. The idea is that the audience sees what they want to
:03:26. > :03:30.see. The idea that his sexuality was a very private matter. Nowadays
:03:30. > :03:35.you look at flamboyance, and how could anybody have seen anything
:03:35. > :03:39.else? It is different in private and public. There is a sinister
:03:39. > :03:47.element. The added the film introduces is that he wants his
:03:47. > :03:52.protege to become him. It looks like a young version of him. Being
:03:52. > :03:57.a young version of yourself takes a whole new meaning. It is the dark
:03:57. > :04:03.side of the film. It is like the Phantom of the Opera. A brilliant
:04:03. > :04:11.musician who brings this young person into his lair. As the film
:04:11. > :04:17.moves on, he becomes sealed more and more within this hermetic world.
:04:17. > :04:21.What it does, it has all these different ideas. Theatricality.
:04:21. > :04:29.Michael Douglas is terrific. It is also about the difference between
:04:29. > :04:35.public and private. At the centre of it, it is this bittersweet,
:04:35. > :04:39.strange the twisted butter very charming end. A rather moving story
:04:39. > :04:49.about this strange couple whose relationship was actually the most
:04:49. > :04:49.
:04:49. > :04:55.normal thing about the bizarre world in which they live. There is
:04:55. > :05:02.a bit in Austen Palace where he has to watch all these things that have
:05:02. > :05:06.happened. And he says, Liberace was a? Food you? After Smith. Will
:05:06. > :05:12.Smith and Jadon Smith. And of course, M Night Shyamalan. He
:05:12. > :05:19.started his career as so successful. But now he has been something of a
:05:19. > :05:23.downward spiral. It is the future. Mankind have left earth. It is a
:05:23. > :05:29.father and son. He has to fight monsters who can detect you by the
:05:29. > :05:33.smell of your future. The Sun has to learn to be more like his father.
:05:33. > :05:39.He has to learn to be a bit more boring. A little less exciting.
:05:39. > :05:44.They crash-land on oath. He has to go from a series of obstacles to
:05:44. > :05:49.get less emotion. The extraordinary thing about this is that it has a
:05:49. > :05:52.father and son at the centre, M Night Shyamalan himself seems to
:05:52. > :05:58.have almost entirely lost the ability to recognise what an
:05:58. > :06:03.engaging story is. It is a strange when you remember the 6th sense.
:06:03. > :06:09.Everybody talked about the narrative complexity. The progress
:06:09. > :06:15.is, excitable young man has to become boring as his father by the
:06:15. > :06:19.time he gets to the end of the film. As long as you do not react, they
:06:19. > :06:26.cannot see you. The safest you would be would be asleep. The
:06:26. > :06:33.monsters would not be able to see me, because I am drifting off.
:06:33. > :06:40.Ice man. I have seen the Ice man. It has an extraordinary performance
:06:40. > :06:43.by Michael Shannon. This is the true story of a professional hit
:06:43. > :06:53.man who lived a double life. On the one hand he was a cold-blooded
:06:53. > :06:59.
:06:59. > :07:08.killer. On the other hand, he was a family man. I do not want to talk
:07:08. > :07:18.about it any more. You have just got to talk to me, tell me. We have
:07:18. > :07:26.been through enough. We have got too much good here. For you to act
:07:26. > :07:33.this way. What way?Like you do not care any more. I do not care any
:07:33. > :07:39.more. I see. I do not get the benefit of the doubt? In a way, the
:07:39. > :07:49.whole idea is that he is not expressive. But the central thing
:07:49. > :07:52.is that he does not react. The Iceman. The director said that he
:07:52. > :07:58.saw a documentary. What is interesting, these terrible things
:07:58. > :08:04.that he'd done. But there was something likeable about him. It
:08:05. > :08:10.was called Zodiac meets Goodfellas. Just because it reminds you of
:08:10. > :08:18.other films does not mean it is like it. It may is a much better
:08:18. > :08:26.film to take you into the mind of a man, who is basically a sociopath.
:08:26. > :08:34.The fall in the film is, it is about a relationship with his wife,
:08:34. > :08:38.but I did not think the accent worked. It has to work. I think her
:08:38. > :08:42.performance is fine. What you want to know is how could you have the
:08:42. > :08:46.relationship with the wife with all that is going on. Those were the
:08:46. > :08:56.scenes that you wanted more from. But the drama does not know what to
:08:56. > :09:02.grow. It does not know. -- where to go. And now we have byes sent him,
:09:02. > :09:09.about a vampire. -- I send him. They never ever used the word their
:09:09. > :09:15.empire. They never used the word vampire. It is about what it means
:09:15. > :09:20.to live for ever. Some people said, it is twilight for grown-ups.
:09:20. > :09:27.Somehow, if you like twilight you cannot like I sent him. I love
:09:27. > :09:33.twilight and unloved by send him. I loved the idea of the Gothic
:09:33. > :09:42.romance. The talk about likeability and flawed characters. Flight.
:09:42. > :09:50.Denzel Washington. Can somebody like this also be a hero? At the
:09:50. > :09:53.beginning of the film you see that he is a pilot. He crashes the plane
:09:53. > :09:58.which for a significantly clipped the top of the church. The rest of
:09:58. > :10:07.the film is about his voyage to redemption. The drama is less
:10:07. > :10:13.surprising the more it goes on. His performance is great. It is good to
:10:13. > :10:22.see this live action directing. He is a good live-action director. It