Call Me by Your Name, Thor: Ragnarok, and Breathe The Film Review

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and hear from the Ashes squad before

they go to Australia tomorrow.

That's at 6:30pm but now it's time

for The Film Review.

Hello, and welcome to The Film

Review on BBC News. To take us

through the cinema releases this

week is James King. Good to see you.

You too. What have you been

watching?

There is romance among the

Romans in the Italian love story

Call Me By Your Name, and awards

contender that one. The God of

Thunder goes down under. There is a

distinctly Antipodean field to

marvel's film, Thor: Ragnarok.

Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield

battled the odds is in Brief, there

will be tears...

-- Breathe. Call Me

By Your Name, I feel like I've seen

the trailer for this ten times, do

the producers think it is an awards

contender?

We are heading to award

season, you will hear the same

titles over and over again over the

next few months. I do think this is

one of those. The director is Luca

Guadagnino, arguably the most

stylish and chic correct at the

moment. -- director. Written by

James Ivory, formerly of Merchant

Ivory fame. It was set in northern

Italy in one summer. Elio's father

is an academic and he invites and in

turn over for the summer. Elio falls

in love with the intern. We have

Timothee Chalamet as Elio and Armie

Hammer as the intern. Here we go.

Thank you so much.

It's bigger --

you are bigger than your photo!

I

couldn't get all of me in the

picture! It's very nice to meet you.

Elio!

You must be exhausted...

LAUGHTER

Every single one of these will!

Elio, Oliver, Oliver, Elio.

You must

be exhausted!

Come, come. Should I

take this to your room?

My room...

If I were him... It is set in the

1980s...

In Italy come his mother

was French which is why he also

spoke French. Language is an

important part of the film. It's

about this young boy finding out who

he is, and his own personality and

finding his own language. That's why

there are a lot of different

languages going on in the film. I

loved it. It looks gorgeous, it's

mainly set in Lombardi and Lake

Garda year, and it looks fantastic.

It's a young love story, a

coming-of-age story. It's about the

grey areas. It is into cliche movie

Love story where everything seems

neat, but it's about the

complexities of it and growing up.

That's what resonated with me.

Perhaps it meanders a little but

it's about a teenager on their

summer holidays which is when you

meander. I certainly remember

meandering a lot!

Got a lot of time

on your hands...

There's a big sense

of waiting for things to happen from

it. It was set in the 1980s before

the Internet and mobile phones. You

are in the dark as to what is

happening. You really get that

sense. I thought it was beautiful.

Wonderful, it looks beautiful. Does

Thor look beautiful?

It does.

It

looks very stylish. It is the third

Chris Hemsworth Thor form. It is

stand alone. There is more comedy in

this one, even though the subtitle,

Ragnarok, relates to the destruction

of Thor's homeland.

The success of

the Guardians of the Galaxy

franchise, another Marvel comic book

franchise is cheeky and funny, it

seems that Thor has been given a

Guardians of the Galaxy makeover.

Secondly, I mentioned at the top

about the down under thing. The

director is a guy called Taika

Waititi who has had a lot of success

in New Zealand with his comic

dramas. We did the hunt for the

world people and In the Shadows. He

brings a lovely, deadpan, Antipodean

sensibility to the whole thing, as

well as casting Cate Blanchett and

Carl Levin in there, and Chris

Hemsworth. I love the comedy. It's

really funny and marks it as

different from the others. There

isn't much depth to it or threat to

it, but you will laugh a lot. That's

what people are really picking up

on.

And there's a lot to be said on

that. The final selection for this

week is Breathe.

Based on the true

story of Robin Cavendish. He was

disabled by polio and this is the

story of how he chose to live as

full a life as possible, often using

unconventional methods, and how he

was supported by his wife, Diana,

throughout. Directed by Andy Serkis,

a directing debut for him, and

Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield star

in this.

How do you feel?

Much

better.

Diana, what happens if there

is a power cut? You are working with

this nifty bit of kit...

Look who's

here! Oh, look. There you go.

Ooh.

Look, Jonathan. It's daddy.

Hello,

Jonathan. Hello, dear boy.

A proper

tear-jerker?

Absolutely, not so much

tugging on the heartstrings as

yanking on them! You will blub.

There are some funny moments but for

me, mainly in the second half of the

film. It was the funny moments, or

the more peculiar moments that

really resonated. Sometimes it is a

little by the book and predictable,

but inevitably, it will be compared

to The Theory of Everything, the

movie about Steven Hawking from a

few years ago. Maybe it doesn't have

the charisma but behind the camera

we know Andy Serkis is a great actor

and clearly he's a very good

director. From now on after this we

will see him directing as much as

acting. He has a very confident

style.

That's an interesting

development. He is a fantastically

versatile actor. It is striking that

he has chosen something that's a

real tear-jerker as his first film?

He said he read the script. It's the

story of his parents. His production

partner is Jonathan Cavendish, but

when Andy Serkis read the script he

said it was the most emotional thing

he had ever read, he had to make it

and it is an emotional watch.

Lets

go onto our film of the week. My

goodness, I loved Death of Stalin.

Isn't it clever satire?

I loved it,

I watched it and I laughed, a couple

of weeks ago when I saw it and in

the fortnight since, what has really

stayed with me is how chilling the

whole thing is.

I absolutely agree.

Of course it is an absurd situation

these people find themselves in

after the Death of Stalin in 1953

but then you see the backstabbing

and the desperate clamouring around

to hold onto some sort of power. And

the things people will do which

affect millions of their citizens in

Russia.

And he never lets you forget

that people were taken out of their

bedss in the middle of the night and

thrown into prison, or worse. It's

important to be in the film but it

needs to be done cleverly.

You laugh

at the ridiculousness of it but you

go, hang on, there's a dark side to

this which is classic satire. You

can see there are five great people

in the poster behind you but it's an

ensemble cast. They are all

fantastic but Simon Russell Beale

really stood out for me. He plays

the head of security in the secret

police. A chilling performance. He

is great but they all are in it.

And

a quick thought on the DVD, for

anyone who doesn't want to head out?

My Cousin Rachel, the thriller set

in Victorian error, all. He suspects

-- Sam Claflin, suspects his cousin

Rachel has killed a mutual relative.

But as well as suspecting her, he is

also seduced by her. He's in an odd

position. We never really know

whether she did it or not. You are

kept guessing by the film. The

Rachel of the title is played by

Rachel Weisz and keeps her cards

close to her chest throughout. It's

a subtle performance and you are

kept guessing.

James, it's good to

see you. Thank you for being with

us. That's all from us for this

week. Enjoy your cinema going.

Goodbye!