:00:00. > :00:00.says that records mean nothing for is as they look the equal the most
:00:00. > :00:00.consecutive number of wins. But now BBC News it is time for the film
:00:00. > :00:26.review. Hello and welcome to the film review
:00:27. > :00:32.on BBC News, to take us through this week cinema releases is Mark
:00:33. > :00:37.Kermode. What do we have? United Kingdom, it safer we have talked
:00:38. > :00:46.before at the London film Festival. And Allied, a wartime drama with RAD
:00:47. > :00:55.Pitt and Marion Cotta yard. And Patterson, about a poet called
:00:56. > :01:06.Paterson Paterson. United Kingdom which has had brilliant advert.
:01:07. > :01:13.Based on a true story, Rosamond Park, is working in London in 1947,
:01:14. > :01:17.she meets and falls in love. Initially unbeknownst to her, he is
:01:18. > :01:23.the heir to the throne in Botswana. He proposes and she accepts, to
:01:24. > :01:28.start a new life with him. This immediately infuriates the British
:01:29. > :01:31.authorities who are worried about alienating South Africa. Meanwhile,
:01:32. > :01:39.when they get to the land, they don't get any more of a welcome from
:01:40. > :01:49.the uncle. Here is a clip. Your first duty is to your people, your
:01:50. > :01:59.nation. You are a son to me. Please. Be my son. I will entertain you in
:02:00. > :02:06.my home if that is my husband 's wish, but don't insult us. It is
:02:07. > :02:12.audacious of you to come here and present your self married as if it
:02:13. > :02:21.were your right to be our Queen. Who do you think will accept you? The
:02:22. > :02:31.men? Us? The women. To have a white woman who we must love and trust and
:02:32. > :02:37.respect as our sovereign. LAUGHTER You belong to the white but they
:02:38. > :02:43.won't want to either. STUDIO: It doesn't pull its punches? It
:02:44. > :02:45.doesn't. And they are worrying about alienating South Africa and
:02:46. > :02:53.undermining the marriage. The thing I relight about it, is that, the
:02:54. > :03:01.director has a trivial wealth making a personal political and the
:03:02. > :03:07.political personal. This is a story of political change, told through
:03:08. > :03:12.romance and relationship, the film has an epic sweep. On the one hand
:03:13. > :03:15.it has fantastic landscape scenery but it also dramatises its central
:03:16. > :03:22.conflict in the interplay between on the one hand, proper outdoor scenery
:03:23. > :03:25.and fusty interiors. Some kind of battle between the past and the
:03:26. > :03:31.present, the establishment and change. The director started out as
:03:32. > :03:40.an actor, she was in Grange Hill. That has put in very good stead.
:03:41. > :03:45.Fantastic work from the producer. Bosman Pike breathing life into the
:03:46. > :03:53.central character. And what you get, is the story, it is stranger than
:03:54. > :03:58.fiction, it is really important and global invitations. But it is being
:03:59. > :04:05.told on the level of the personal. I think this is her real talent, she
:04:06. > :04:12.understands, that you take, and keep it in the detail, Rosamond Pike
:04:13. > :04:20.smiles and looks anxious. The day that somebody else stands, and also
:04:21. > :04:26.it is a very, it is a crowd pleasing film. I saw it in a packed cinema,
:04:27. > :04:32.they were laughing at the jokes, and swooning in the romance. Everybody
:04:33. > :04:37.loves a very difficult romance? Yes but you have to do it well to avoid
:04:38. > :04:43.it falling into cliche and I think she absolutely does that, it is a
:04:44. > :04:50.really good solid film. Now allied, I have read a lot about this in the
:04:51. > :04:56.newspapers. Go ahead. So Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, any film, that
:04:57. > :04:59.require somebody to say with a straight face, I have loved you
:05:00. > :05:05.since Casablanca. The meeting Casablanca and they fall in love in
:05:06. > :05:11.the middle of a plot to kill top Nazis. Suspicion falls on their
:05:12. > :05:14.relationship. The whole thing nods towards Casablanca. I was thinking
:05:15. > :05:19.of that film Havana, which was trying to be Casablanca and this is
:05:20. > :05:23.almost like a second-generation down the line. One of the weird things
:05:24. > :05:27.about it, a lot of stuff in the press about it. Yes and Casablanca
:05:28. > :05:33.is one of the most sizzling movies you will ever see. In this
:05:34. > :05:37.particular case they literally look like they don't know each other.
:05:38. > :05:42.There is so little sizzle between them that at one point they have to
:05:43. > :05:47.construct, this sequence, this passionate sequence by swirling the
:05:48. > :05:50.camera around and around in a car inside a sandstorm to carnage as
:05:51. > :05:58.some kind of sense that something is actually happening. It is really
:05:59. > :06:03.bizarre because you keep thinking, it is a good-looking throwback film
:06:04. > :06:09.but not old-fashioned, like fusty, and it doesn't really work. There
:06:10. > :06:13.are lines of dialogue and you just think, you know the bravest thing on
:06:14. > :06:16.display in this film is that you just said that out loud. It is not
:06:17. > :06:26.terrible but it is really not very good. Anything that is compared to
:06:27. > :06:31.Casablanca is going to start badly. Don't mention Havana. Now, Paterson,
:06:32. > :06:35.I have not seen the film, I have heard many reviews and I don't have
:06:36. > :06:39.the faintest idea what this is about. I have seen the film and I
:06:40. > :06:46.might be in the same position as you, it is the latest from Jim Josh.
:06:47. > :06:49.It is the week in the life of a bus driver called Paterson from Paterson
:06:50. > :06:54.and he drives his bus around Paterson New Jersey, and at night he
:06:55. > :06:59.walks his dog to the local bar where he has interactions with people. But
:07:00. > :07:05.most of the time he is living at home, with his love, who is ready
:07:06. > :07:09.wonderful and they have a very good relationships together. And then he
:07:10. > :07:15.write poems about the relationship which remain unpublished because he
:07:16. > :07:26.keep them in a book which he doesn't show to anybody except himself. How
:07:27. > :07:40.was your day? The usual. Getting your writing done? I did a little,
:07:41. > :07:46.yes. Working on a poem for you. A love poem? Yes I guess is for you it
:07:47. > :07:51.is a love poem, it is inspired by Ohio. Really? Does it mention the
:07:52. > :08:02.little megaphone shape that the letters make? It does. How
:08:03. > :08:07.beautiful, I can't wait to read it. That is pretty much the tone of the
:08:08. > :08:11.film and it is gentle and sweet and observant and unexpected encounters
:08:12. > :08:18.with people that never turn out the way they are supposed to which is
:08:19. > :08:22.beautifully shot. It captures the strange beauty of a suburban street
:08:23. > :08:27.and in court intimacy of a small but happy home. It is difficult to show
:08:28. > :08:31.the creative process, as he writes you can see the handwriting that he
:08:32. > :08:36.was writing them in, and the handwriting is soft and gentle like
:08:37. > :08:42.his delivery. And the whole film becomes like a tiny poem. I have to
:08:43. > :08:47.say I was utterly and shunted. The only thing I know about Paterson,
:08:48. > :08:52.New Jersey is that Ruben hurricane Carter was fitted up by the police
:08:53. > :09:00.and Bob Dylan wrote a great song about it called hurricane. There is
:09:01. > :09:06.a long bit about whether it was, how much of the poems inspired Paterson.
:09:07. > :09:10.Our central character. It is one of those things that demonstrate that
:09:11. > :09:14.you cannot sum up a film with a plot summary. He goes to work for a week
:09:15. > :09:29.and he writes some poems. I love it. Really lovely. So this is great,
:09:30. > :09:34.this is this animate, it opened yesterday,, it is a really to
:09:35. > :09:38.restrict body swap story, a boy living in Tokyo and a girl in a
:09:39. > :09:41.mountaintop town and their spirit swap but they don't meet and so the
:09:42. > :09:47.living each other's knives, but they don't meet and crucially they can't
:09:48. > :09:52.render each other's names. It is beautiful it has got fantastic
:09:53. > :09:56.soundtracks, it has got fancy and romance and mythology and you can
:09:57. > :09:59.see it as a really good adventure, or something much deeper and I
:10:00. > :10:07.thought it was terrific. And your DVD Ron Howard's the Beatles, eight
:10:08. > :10:12.days a week. But yes really like this, I know that a lot of people
:10:13. > :10:16.will know it. It captures them on tour to demonstrate that they are a
:10:17. > :10:19.really exciting live band and to show you some stuff that you have
:10:20. > :10:22.seen before but perhaps angles you have not seen before and to
:10:23. > :10:26.concentrate on the fact that they were playing live rather than just
:10:27. > :10:30.retreating into the studio and recording Sergeant Pepper. The songs
:10:31. > :10:35.are timeless, but you will never have seen or heard them in this kind
:10:36. > :10:45.of quality before. I dearly in the cinema. Big recommendation, that is
:10:46. > :10:50.the DVD. You will find the news and reviews, on the website, thus you
:10:51. > :10:53.can catch up on all of the programmes on the BBC type player.
:10:54. > :11:05.That is it for this week, thanks for watching, enjoy the movies. Goodbye.
:11:06. > :11:09.High a quiet sort of weekend and coming up, no great dramas like
:11:10. > :11:10.further