08/06/2013 The Film Review

Will come to the full review. To take us through this week's cinema

releases its Mark Kermode. We have a very mixed bag. Behind the

candelabra, which unveils the life behind Liberace. We have after it,

with Will Smith and Jadon Smith, surprisingly as father and son. And

we have The Iceman, another outstanding film and a true story

of a cold-blooded killer. Behind The Candelabra. I asked if

anybody had seen it. Nobody knew what it was. That might be a

problem. I was shocked at how many people do not. I thought everybody

knew who Liberace was. Michael Best getting career-best performances

out of what in America was a straight to TV film. It was at the

Cannes Film Festival and has now opens theatrically. It is the story

of the relationship between Liberace, the celebrated pianist,

and Scott Thorson. And the life Behind The Candelabra. Nearer Jack,

I want to talk to you about to wring some surgery. If fine. What

would she liked me to do? I want you to make him look like this. Can

you do that? I see. Yes, I think I can do what you want. I am going to

have to restructure his cheekbones and his chin. Silicon implants. But

it is not impossible. But first, you have to slim him down. I have a

terrific diet. Of a Californian diet. Guaranteed loss of 15 in four

I see what you mean about career- best performance. There is the old

fashioned technique of bits of cellophane. What you see from that

clip is the different levels of the film. It is funny, and there is a

lot of extravagance. There is a moment at the beginning of the film

when Matt Damon goes to see Liberace. It is amazing the

straight audiences it accepting something so gay. But they do not

know he is gay. The idea is that the audience sees what they want to

see. The idea that his sexuality was a very private matter. Nowadays

you look at flamboyance, and how could anybody have seen anything

else? It is different in private and public. There is a sinister

element. The added the film introduces is that he wants his

protege to become him. It looks like a young version of him. Being

a young version of yourself takes a whole new meaning. It is the dark

side of the film. It is like the Phantom of the Opera. A brilliant

musician who brings this young person into his lair. As the film

moves on, he becomes sealed more and more within this hermetic world.

What it does, it has all these different ideas. Theatricality.

Michael Douglas is terrific. It is also about the difference between

public and private. At the centre of it, it is this bittersweet,

strange the twisted butter very charming end. A rather moving story

about this strange couple whose relationship was actually the most

normal thing about the bizarre world in which they live. There is

a bit in Austen Palace where he has to watch all these things that have

happened. And he says, Liberace was a? Food you? After Smith. Will

Smith and Jadon Smith. And of course, M Night Shyamalan. He

started his career as so successful. But now he has been something of a

downward spiral. It is the future. Mankind have left earth. It is a

father and son. He has to fight monsters who can detect you by the

smell of your future. The Sun has to learn to be more like his father.

He has to learn to be a bit more boring. A little less exciting.

They crash-land on oath. He has to go from a series of obstacles to

get less emotion. The extraordinary thing about this is that it has a

father and son at the centre, M Night Shyamalan himself seems to

have almost entirely lost the ability to recognise what an

engaging story is. It is a strange when you remember the 6th sense.

Everybody talked about the narrative complexity. The progress

is, excitable young man has to become boring as his father by the

time he gets to the end of the film. As long as you do not react, they

cannot see you. The safest you would be would be asleep. The

monsters would not be able to see me, because I am drifting off.

Ice man. I have seen the Ice man. It has an extraordinary performance

by Michael Shannon. This is the true story of a professional hit

man who lived a double life. On the one hand he was a cold-blooded

killer. On the other hand, he was a family man. I do not want to talk

about it any more. You have just got to talk to me, tell me. We have

been through enough. We have got too much good here. For you to act

this way. What way?Like you do not care any more. I do not care any

more. I see. I do not get the benefit of the doubt? In a way, the

whole idea is that he is not expressive. But the central thing

is that he does not react. The Iceman. The director said that he

saw a documentary. What is interesting, these terrible things

that he'd done. But there was something likeable about him. It

was called Zodiac meets Goodfellas. Just because it reminds you of

other films does not mean it is like it. It may is a much better

film to take you into the mind of a man, who is basically a sociopath.

The fall in the film is, it is about a relationship with his wife,

but I did not think the accent worked. It has to work. I think her

performance is fine. What you want to know is how could you have the

relationship with the wife with all that is going on. Those were the

scenes that you wanted more from. But the drama does not know what to

grow. It does not know. -- where to go. And now we have byes sent him,

about a vampire. -- I send him. They never ever used the word their

empire. They never used the word vampire. It is about what it means

to live for ever. Some people said, it is twilight for grown-ups.

Somehow, if you like twilight you cannot like I sent him. I love

twilight and unloved by send him. I loved the idea of the Gothic

romance. The talk about likeability and flawed characters. Flight.

Denzel Washington. Can somebody like this also be a hero? At the

beginning of the film you see that he is a pilot. He crashes the plane

which for a significantly clipped the top of the church. The rest of

the film is about his voyage to redemption. The drama is less

surprising the more it goes on. His performance is great. It is good to

see this live action directing. He is a good live-action director. It