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years since that drop goal which won England the Rugby World Cup. Now on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News it's time for The Film Review. | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
Welcome to The Film Review here on BBC News to take us through this | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
week's voices, Mark Kermode. We have The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
second instalment. Katniss Everdeen is back to fight again. We have Blue | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Is the Warmest Colour, the controversial winner of the Pandora. | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
And we have The Family. Luc Besson directs Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
De Niro. What could possibly go wrong? Accent is quite a lot. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
However, let's start with The Hunger Games. Tell us more. I did not see | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
the first one. It is a dystopian future tale in which the poor are | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
taken from towns in order to fight in the squad at Oriel sport. `` | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
gladiatorial sport. At the end of the first one, Katniss Everdeen had | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
outsmarted the Games. This is a problem by the character played by | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Donald Sutherland, who realises she is a figurehead, someone who will | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
help people rise up and rebel. He kills that what she has to do to | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
stay alive is to carry the pretence of a relationship which saw her | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
through the first hunger games. The president has decided that in order | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
to really began to `` to go up the ante, he will have another Hunger | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
Games For The People Who Survived The Fostering. | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
People have to be brave enough to take the opportunity. We have to go | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
before the killers. They will kill us. What do the others? The ones who | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
stay? I do not want people looking to me. I cannot help them. | :02:15. | :02:26. | |
Do what you want. I am staying here. That was Jennifer Lawrence is | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
Katniss Everdeen. The first film all day waiting if unacknowledged debt | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
to Battle Royale, a story about children fighting children. In this | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
one, because it is returning champions, the age of the combatants | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
is rather higher. This becomes much more a story about what the Games | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
mean in terms of keeping the debt dashes `` the masses downtrodden. It | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
remains me of rollerball, where you have this gladiatorial sport to keep | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
everyone subservient. The problem is, James can's character becomes a | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
hero and he becomes dangerous. In the case of The Hunger Games, when | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
that is ever gene `` when Katniss Everdeen becomes dangerous, she is | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
at work. It is quite a brutal film but not as violent in terms of what | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
you actually see. That film had if you trouble is with the censors | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
here. It is a grim story with a straw dummy `` an extraordinary | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
lead. Jennifer Lawrence is a commanding screen presence and has a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
natural quality. There is enough a lot of action involved. She is a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
fantastic and award`winning actress. The nice thing about The Hunger | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Games is it treats its audiences if they are intelligent, as if they are | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
able to deal with a subject matter which is dark and difficult. My only | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
criticism would be it is quite long. You're talking about the same when | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
first 2001, and when the film. There's a sense they have gone to | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the film and thought, we do not want to leave anything out. If we do | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
that, the fans will be upset. That is a minor problem. In general, it | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
is a really, really good action entertainment for male and female | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
audiences and Jennifer Lawrence is terrific. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Let's move on. Lose the warmest colour. This caused a controversy at | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Cannes when it won the Palm d'Or. `` Blue Is the Warmest Colour. It is | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
very very unusual. What they said was, Wick, the victory of this film | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
is as much in the performance as it is with the directors. It is a love | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
story over a long period of time. It is a long film and covers a long | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
period in the central characters' lies. `` lives. There has been | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
controversy about explicit sex scenes and a woman who wrote the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
graphic novel has been quite critical of those. I understand why. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
The film didn't need them. It is a film which is indulgent. But the two | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
central performances are so strong, so powerful, so convincing, that | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
actually, the things that are wrong with the film starts to fall away | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
and in the end, you believe in these people as people. The believe they | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
are consumed by a relationship which on the one hand is quite | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
destructive. You believe the changing moods of the relationship | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
over a long period of time, which is not easy to convey an film. There | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
are reservations, but from the acting point of view, it is | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
flawless. The controversy, is that to do with the sex scenes of the | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
actresses `` the actresses? The Family. Robert De Niro. Yeah, when | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
you have had a career with the films he has been in, the question is | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
always going to be, aren't you just treading water? The story is Robert | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer Aaron witness protection. He was an | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
American Mafia mob boss. He gave evidence so now they are hiding. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
They have to move around all the time. The move into France will stop | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
there is a lot of jokes about French, although it has a French | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
director, which is fine. The French are rude and not tell `` do not know | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
how to conduct themselves. They are crime family, so they cannot keep | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
their heads down. Here's a clip. I do all right? It is just the | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
prospect of packing up again and moving when they find out you have | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
killed the plumber. I did not kill him. I taken to the hospital. You | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
beat him to a pulp. The only plumber within 20 miles. He disrespected us. | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
He tried to rip me off. They just have in my shoes. and would not have | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
built `` beat him up. If you do not want to draw attention | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
to yourself, don't kill the plumber. The thing is, it is a very throwaway | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
idea. It is an idea we have seen before. The idea that a criminal as | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
to why all and a sleepy environment and therefore having to behave in a | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
way which blends in. It is not without a certain charm. You cannot | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
put Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer on screen together and not | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
find anything. The thing is, it is so lightweight and throwaway, plus | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
the tone is over the place. It is described in the press notes is a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
dark action comedy. Really? It is more like a bumbling, fumbling | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
comedy. Moments are quite charming, but they are few and far between. It | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
makes specific reference to Goodfellas and you sit there | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
thinking, so Robert De Niro is now in a family making jokes about | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Goodfellas? Nothing flags up Scorsese and his great past. It is | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
not tenable. I laughed a couple of times, which is more than I do with | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
many of these films. But it is not very good. Just disposable. I seem | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
to remember your measurement of laughing was six six times. It | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
couple of chuckles and is not. I think we should move on. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
The best film out just now is Gravity. I would advise everyone to | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
see it on the biggest possible screen. If you can see the day, and | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
then all of people cannot, if you can, I think this is the one 3`D | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
adds to the film. Generally, it doesn't do anything for me at all, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
but in this case, I thought, you know what, he has directed in such a | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
way that the 3`D adds to the story. The couple of people have been to | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
see it and, with motion sickness. You do get that sense of, you know, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
the following, which weighs up, which weighs down? `` which we is | :09:18. | :09:30. | |
up? I have not had a bad word about this movie. This film is 90 minutes | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
long. When is the last time this type of film has done that? James | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Cameron would have made it three and a half hours long and there would be | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
a director 's cut coming out with another half an hour. What DVD would | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
you like to talk about? This is a strange and incredibly moving film. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
It is the story of the relationship between these two people. He is | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
completely obsessed with what it means and it is then dealing with | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
tragedy and love and free conciliation. It started out as a | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
stage show where they would play songs and do state she's `` speeches | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
in between. I thought it was overwhelmingly powerful and | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
wonderfully told story. Brilliant use of music. Sometimes you see | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
music and it is not done well. This is where we have built the songs. I | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
love the story. I thought it was really performed really well told | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
and are really moving. Thank you very much. A quick reminder that you | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
will find more film news and reviews from across the BBC online, | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
including all our previous shows, where you can see the address all. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
`` on`screen. That is it for this week. Thank you for watching. | :10:51. | :11:06. | |
We will have to keep warm clouds to hand over the weekend. There is a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
lot of change on the weather front, stained chilly. It is called in one | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
or two spots with freezing fog in the morning. High pressure which has | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
been here for the last few days is here to stay. You can see how the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
air is flowing around it. At the same time, it is pushing that grey | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
cloud around in the direction of the UK. The thickest of the cloud over | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the next couple of days is in the northern half of the UK. This cloud | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
will topple over into Scotland, novel England and Northern Ireland. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
There will be clear spells around. It is not one solid area of cloud, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
but you can | :11:46. | :11:46. |