21/03/2014 The Film Review

the Twenty20 cricket. A lot more coming up at 6:30pm. Now it is time

for the Film Review. Hello and welcome. This week, to

take us through the releases, Jason Solomons. What do we have?

We will see if Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin can concoct a lost weekend in

the thriller Labour Day. We go to France to see if Eve St Laurent

pampered about one on things in the latest biopic about the latest

fashion world. We get out of jail or we stay in that with the gritty

British drama Starred Up. Labour Day, some people described it as a

melodrama. When I heard Kate Winslet was going to be in it was also when

she was pregnant. I didn't know if they were putting the cameras in

there? The result is a much better. This is a film about Kate Winslet

and her teenage son, a depressed single mum with a teenage son for

stop they are out shopping one day when a convict escapes from a

hospital, holds on to gunpoint, and forces them to take him home where

he becomes the father of the house, making cakes, Chile, making himself

at home to the point by Kate Winslet falls in love with him and threatens

to run away. After your father left I thought I

would be alone forever. I didn't think I would care about anyone else

besides you. I am really happy for you. We are thinking Canada might be

a good place to start over. Canada? They speak English. You don't need

passports to get across the border. Thank you for the research. In

psychology they call it Stockholm syndrome, when you fall in love with

your captors. In the movies they might call it something else. The

two faces of Winslet, Cedar Oscar hopes vanishing down the pipeline.

This was supposed to be an awards movie, the director has done some

great films but the mix just doesn't work. It is based on a novel, I

assume it is from the child's point of view and that can work in

Huckleberry Finn kind of way, but the child is blitzed by the star

power of Kate Winslet. We don't really get his story, we don't care

for him. It becomes about this preposterousness weekend where the

places `` place is crawling with cops. Nobody even sees him. It is

utterly preposterousness the slightest breath of slimness is

makes it all fall down. If you are actually paying for it... Eve St

Laurent. This is a biopic about the fashion designer. There was a

documentary a couple of years ago which detailed the long`lasting love

affair between him and his partner who became the keeper, the news.

This shows how he came to Christian Dior's house and became at 21 in

charge of the house of Christian Dior. It has got all these fantastic

clothes, dresses, parties, a film of decor and design.

You were talking about Labor Day, if you have a slight doubt, falls

apart, if you were anything other than reverential, you would not

enjoy it. The actor is terrific, he gets the preciousness, the

delicacy, but also the fire and strength. It is a better film than

my colleagues have said, it has got a lot of dazzle, but the vision

needed to be artistic all the way through. If you do not think fashion

is artistic, it is not for you, but given that we have exhibitions of

fashion, what we have established is what he does is a creative, artistic

process. It is an extraordinary pressure. A huge business as well.

He does all be swinging 60s stuff. It does not built into the

difficulties of being homosexual. It talks about Franz's battle with

Algeria, he was called up. It skips over the depths of it, as you would

expect it might do, it gets the dress is right. It has the original

dresses that are kept in a museum, and are only allowed out for a short

time. One of the most awaited British films, two. Yes, this

features Jack O'Connell as a young inmate transferred to a grown`ups

prison. It has a ferocity and authenticity to it. I have never

seen it in British prison movies, it harks back to Ray Winstone in 1979,

but it also has a story arc. The prison, his father is there as well,

but it is also about the inmates. The EE `` here he is having a cup of

tea with some dangerous chaps. Who is that, then? Nobody. Why? I am

just saying, it is a nice photo. How is yours? Your mother? I haven't got

one. Thank you. For the tea.

I am delighted to say that Jonathan Asser, the screenwriter, he worked

in prisons, he wrote Starred Up, he is with us now. When you saw the

film that you had written, based on some of your experiences, did you

feel that it got the smelt of it? I was amazed by what David Mackenzie

and the actors did, terrific magic happening throughout. In terms of

writing something about people who are not necessarily the most

articulate, in touch with their feelings, is that fair? My

experiences working with violent gang members at the top of the

hierarchy, those guys are powerful leaders, and once the energy is

transferred from violence, the articulacy can be astounding. But

you have to break through? You need to make a connection and build a

sense of belonging. What do you think, Jason? Having the right

screenplay, with the sense of authenticity, is what grabs you.

Yes, you believe every single second of the film. Even if the drama does

not grip you but the dialogue, the energy, the performances and what

they are saying feels right... I have never been to prison, I do not

know, but it feels right. There is time yet! That is what the film must

do, it must feel authentic, it must feel that the drama is happening in

front of us. I feel like I have been to prison, having seen this movie,

the authenticity is crucial, it is brilliantly done. Jack O'Connell is

amazing. He is a fireball, I do not know if you have to handle prisoners

like that? He has an understanding of where the main character is

coming from, very impressed. As a society, because it is a reflection

on that, do we like to think prisons are places for rehabilitation? Will

of the Shawshank redemption, do we believe that? There is a huge

problem, we take dangerous people, we concentrate them together and

violence happens that would not have happened if we had not brought them

together and we have to find a way to manage that violence was

possibly, we are all implicated in it, as taxpayers, because there is

violence happening that would not be happening if we had not concentrated

those people. Do you have any hope, or do you say, you can have no

hope? I'd have huge hope, based on my personal experience of working in

a system, the small problem of prisoners excluded from other

problems because of their violence, but I am upset that my work was

stopped summarily, unitary, with no consultation with me, back in 2010.

Because this will strike a chord with British viewers, did you see

this as a platform for engaging in an argument? If this is not a

platform, I do not know what is! But the film is part of that

conversation. It is not a political film ostensibly, it is not a

documentary. It is a father and son drama, which is why it is smart. You

think this will be a big hit? I hope so, it is tough stuff, it is not for

family audiences, but people should see it. It is a great drama,

fantastic acting, and it will make Jack O'Connell a huge star. Yes, and

it humanises something that most of us do not want to think about. That

is why the title Scum seemed apt. Forced a the great thing art can do

is force us to identify with people we would not normally. That create

empathy, it has to be a powerful force for good in the world. Good

luck with the film. Now, you're best of the week. Under

these. I am telling friends to see this film, but I am getting mixed

views. It features Scarlett Johansson @ alien, seducing men in

Glasgow, taking them back to her leg, it is very strange, it gets

under your skin, I love this contract `` I love the soundtrack,

Scarlett Johansson is a naked alien, what is wrong? A couple of my

friends in Scotland saw it, they thought it was terrific, but I know

other people could not standard. It splits people, it had its debut in

Venice, half the room cheered, half the room booed. With films these

days, they are so audience tested, run by committees, we rarely see a

weird film, and it is weird. When something comes from another planet

like this, you welcome it. It reminded me of a man who fell to

Earth. It has an otherworldliness to it. Blue is the warmest colour is

your DVD pick, I thought it was really boring and exploitative, but

it is still worth having a look at. The actresses said that the director

exploited them for the seven minute sex scene. Which you kind of get

after two minutes... The film is about length, about how time can

sully things, it is about taste, blossoming. It is very French, but

put it that way! I was not going to suggest a car chase, but there were

one or two metaphors which were really hack. The oysters? And

experience as a metaphor. It was about learning new tastes, artistic

tastes, physical tastes, I felt it to be a visceral film, I felt like a

teenage girl. It was a first`time experience for me. That and going to

jail, which you have not achieved yet!

A quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and

reviews from across the BBC online. That is it for this week, thank you

for watching, goodbye. If you cast your mind back to last

weekend, some of us were lucky to see temperatures as high as 20, but

you can forget that for this weekend, because it is more like 10

degrees. A much colder feel,