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says that records mean nothing for is as they look the equal the most

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consecutive number of wins. But now BBC News it is time for the film

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review. Hello and welcome to the film review

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on BBC News, to take us through this week cinema releases is Mark

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Kermode. What do we have? United Kingdom, it safer we have talked

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before at the London film Festival. And Allied, a wartime drama with RAD

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Pitt and Marion Cotta yard. And Patterson, about a poet called

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Paterson Paterson. United Kingdom which has had brilliant advert.

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Based on a true story, Rosamond Park, is working in London in 1947,

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she meets and falls in love. Initially unbeknownst to her, he is

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the heir to the throne in Botswana. He proposes and she accepts, to

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start a new life with him. This immediately infuriates the British

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authorities who are worried about alienating South Africa. Meanwhile,

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when they get to the land, they don't get any more of a welcome from

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the uncle. Here is a clip. Your first duty is to your people, your

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nation. You are a son to me. Please. Be my son. I will entertain you in

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my home if that is my husband 's wish, but don't insult us. It is

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audacious of you to come here and present your self married as if it

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were your right to be our Queen. Who do you think will accept you? The

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men? Us? The women. To have a white woman who we must love and trust and

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respect as our sovereign. LAUGHTER You belong to the white but they

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won't want to either. STUDIO: It doesn't pull its punches? It

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doesn't. And they are worrying about alienating South Africa and

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undermining the marriage. The thing I relight about it, is that, the

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director has a trivial wealth making a personal political and the

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political personal. This is a story of political change, told through

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romance and relationship, the film has an epic sweep. On the one hand

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it has fantastic landscape scenery but it also dramatises its central

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conflict in the interplay between on the one hand, proper outdoor scenery

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and fusty interiors. Some kind of battle between the past and the

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present, the establishment and change. The director started out as

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an actor, she was in Grange Hill. That has put in very good stead.

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Fantastic work from the producer. Bosman Pike breathing life into the

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central character. And what you get, is the story, it is stranger than

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fiction, it is really important and global invitations. But it is being

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told on the level of the personal. I think this is her real talent, she

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understands, that you take, and keep it in the detail, Rosamond Pike

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smiles and looks anxious. The day that somebody else stands, and also

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it is a very, it is a crowd pleasing film. I saw it in a packed cinema,

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they were laughing at the jokes, and swooning in the romance. Everybody

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loves a very difficult romance? Yes but you have to do it well to avoid

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it falling into cliche and I think she absolutely does that, it is a

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really good solid film. Now allied, I have read a lot about this in the

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newspapers. Go ahead. So Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, any film, that

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require somebody to say with a straight face, I have loved you

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since Casablanca. The meeting Casablanca and they fall in love in

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the middle of a plot to kill top Nazis. Suspicion falls on their

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relationship. The whole thing nods towards Casablanca. I was thinking

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of that film Havana, which was trying to be Casablanca and this is

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almost like a second-generation down the line. One of the weird things

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about it, a lot of stuff in the press about it. Yes and Casablanca

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is one of the most sizzling movies you will ever see. In this

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particular case they literally look like they don't know each other.

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There is so little sizzle between them that at one point they have to

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construct, this sequence, this passionate sequence by swirling the

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camera around and around in a car inside a sandstorm to carnage as

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some kind of sense that something is actually happening. It is really

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bizarre because you keep thinking, it is a good-looking throwback film

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but not old-fashioned, like fusty, and it doesn't really work. There

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are lines of dialogue and you just think, you know the bravest thing on

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display in this film is that you just said that out loud. It is not

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terrible but it is really not very good. Anything that is compared to

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Casablanca is going to start badly. Don't mention Havana. Now, Paterson,

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I have not seen the film, I have heard many reviews and I don't have

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the faintest idea what this is about. I have seen the film and I

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might be in the same position as you, it is the latest from Jim Josh.

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It is the week in the life of a bus driver called Paterson from Paterson

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and he drives his bus around Paterson New Jersey, and at night he

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walks his dog to the local bar where he has interactions with people. But

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most of the time he is living at home, with his love, who is ready

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wonderful and they have a very good relationships together. And then he

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write poems about the relationship which remain unpublished because he

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keep them in a book which he doesn't show to anybody except himself. How

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was your day? The usual. Getting your writing done? I did a little,

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yes. Working on a poem for you. A love poem? Yes I guess is for you it

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is a love poem, it is inspired by Ohio. Really? Does it mention the

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little megaphone shape that the letters make? It does. How

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beautiful, I can't wait to read it. That is pretty much the tone of the

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film and it is gentle and sweet and observant and unexpected encounters

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with people that never turn out the way they are supposed to which is

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beautifully shot. It captures the strange beauty of a suburban street

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and in court intimacy of a small but happy home. It is difficult to show

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the creative process, as he writes you can see the handwriting that he

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was writing them in, and the handwriting is soft and gentle like

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his delivery. And the whole film becomes like a tiny poem. I have to

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say I was utterly and shunted. The only thing I know about Paterson,

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New Jersey is that Ruben hurricane Carter was fitted up by the police

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and Bob Dylan wrote a great song about it called hurricane. There is

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a long bit about whether it was, how much of the poems inspired Paterson.

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Our central character. It is one of those things that demonstrate that

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you cannot sum up a film with a plot summary. He goes to work for a week

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and he writes some poems. I love it. Really lovely. So this is great,

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this is this animate, it opened yesterday,, it is a really to

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restrict body swap story, a boy living in Tokyo and a girl in a

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mountaintop town and their spirit swap but they don't meet and so the

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living each other's knives, but they don't meet and crucially they can't

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render each other's names. It is beautiful it has got fantastic

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soundtracks, it has got fancy and romance and mythology and you can

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see it as a really good adventure, or something much deeper and I

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thought it was terrific. And your DVD Ron Howard's the Beatles, eight

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days a week. But yes really like this, I know that a lot of people

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will know it. It captures them on tour to demonstrate that they are a

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really exciting live band and to show you some stuff that you have

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seen before but perhaps angles you have not seen before and to

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concentrate on the fact that they were playing live rather than just

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retreating into the studio and recording Sergeant Pepper. The songs

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are timeless, but you will never have seen or heard them in this kind

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of quality before. I dearly in the cinema. Big recommendation, that is

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the DVD. You will find the news and reviews, on the website, thus you

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can catch up on all of the programmes on the BBC type player.

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That is it for this week, thanks for watching, enjoy the movies. Goodbye.

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High a quiet sort of weekend and coming up, no great dramas like

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further

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