David Brent: Life on the Road, Black, Swallows and Amazons The Film Review

Jones from her tae kwon do gold. That is coming up at 630. Now it is

time for the film review. Hello and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Jason Solomons. So Jason, what do

we have this week? This week we re-examine one of

Britain's beloved, maybe not beloved, comic characters, David

Brent who is back on the road hoping a musical tour will give him one

last shot at fame in David Brent life on the road. We go underground

for an across the tracks romance amidst the ghettos and gangs in an

explosive Belgian film Black. And more gently, we muck about in the

water with the kids, pirates and spies of Swallows and Amazons. Let's

talk about David Brent, does this live up to the reputation? David

Brent is a great comic creation and I love Ricky device playing him. I'm

not too keen on Ricki device playing anything else, there is a sort of an

albatross around his neck and we do not like to see him as anything

else. Really it is David Brent where he comes alive, rather like Alan

Partridge when Steve you sense they are a hair's-breadth away from it

and ego of the real things are the some trepidation about Ricky device

creating David Brent again. TV spin offs sort of work because people see

this character loathsome as he is, what he tries to do for this movie

is build some affection for the character. Although he is

impossible, he keeps doing himself in the holes wherever he goes, even

on stage she is a complete embarrassment so sets off on a tour

mainly of Berkshire but he does it all. Very rarely sold out except for

this student night. Even the students see the lack of

self-awareness. You can't just pick them up they have rights. People

often say is there anything you won't joke about? Yes the

handicapped. There have been quite a few moments. This tool will get

better and better. He once T-shirt? You think is painful to watch, I

have to stand next to him. We are going to get a little bit funky.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, he shoots a fat girl in a

phase with a T-shirt gun. So I'm a laugh matter how much did you laugh?

The only gauge you have is if you laugh and I laughed quite

frequently, quite loud and quite guiltily because this man is a

monster. There is an attempt to make us like him by the end and that is

the less successful part of the movie. He tries to add an office

romance. That uses his loathsome nurse as his redemption and I think

that is less successful but what a great other terrible lyrics to the

song 's. The awful way he tries to get in with the band and his racial

errors that he tries to befriend his mate Ben Bailey Smith and him

putting his foot in it is folly. Whether you need to go to the cinema

to see it, it is no cinematic feat but it does make you laugh and for

that reason it is a success. Not many laughs in the next film we will

talk about which is called Black and I read it is a Romeo and Juliet

story set in Brussels about a 15-year-old girl in a gang? That's

right. A 15-year-old girl who is in one gang and romance, and illicit

romance between a Moroccan born boy in another gang. It is set in

Brussels, of it in the so-called jihadist capital, I feel no slight a

need at this film understands the place better than countless news

reports could possibly do so. That is because it is made by two

directors from the area. It is sort of a film that looks stylish, a pop

video aesthetic but it has this reality to it. The sort of stories

we have not seen that we looked away from an ignored, it is across the

tracks romance between a boy and a girl who forced to do things they

gangs forced them to do. We are very much in the Westside story rather

than Romeo Juliet because we have fighting, almost like Michael

Jackson's bad video in places. There is an energy and a fresh mission in

it. The energy in the vitality and the language is important. The film

was banned on release in France and has not been released there because

people at the time after the Paris attack people feared for the

security of hordes of use descending on cinemas and there were riots in

Belgium at but I do think it is an important and urgent European film.

Things haven't really changed for the use of Europe the cinema has and

this is an urgent cry from the front line. OK. One film I don't think

will be banned anywhere is Swallows and Amazons which we can talk about.

Who is as appealing to? Younger children and their parents taking

them to the cinemas? Oddly enough we are seen many family films these

days if we do they tend to be the precision vacuum packed Pixar movies

which are so perfect that there is no room for error. This has the old

charm based on Arthur Ransome's beloved book. I say do love it but I

never liked it, I was a suburban boy and the idea of knots and sales... I

never read it. Putting up a tent not my thing. But if this is your think

this is great. It is about a family and children whose dad is a way for

the summer holidays and off they go to the Lake District and dream of

spending a night away in the middle of the Lake said their mum packs

them off and make sure they are shipshape. Captain John will now

introduces crew. Able Seaman Walker in charge of the log. It's very

important to keep a record. Ships boy Roger Walker. I want to be a

lookout. That's what the ships boy does. Keep your eyes peeled. Master

Minded Susan Walker. Are you sure you have everything? Remember tatty

carnies matches. You have a fine crew here captain. All aboard. Here

is to swallow and all who sail in her. Looks like a classic British

feel-good film, is it something that families would go to over the

summer? It does have some charming it. Lassitude of charm to borrow

something from the famous five. Really nice twinkly score that

builds up the Pirate and there is an adult thread through it, a spy story

going on and it is seen from the kids I view, these pesky kids he get

involved in a plot. It's more fun than I thought it would be, I gave

up the book ages ago when I was forced to read as a kid and never

picked it up again until now and this feels like that, it has the

Sunday afternoon charm, a wide fist of the Lake District, the rural John

Major 's Britain, albeit bread-and-butter picnics. I don't

think many Brexit voters would go for this error of Britain, maybe it

never existed but is captured brilliantly and milk nicely in this

adaptation of Swallows and Amazons. Lovely stuff. What is the best movie

out at the moment? Swallows and Amazons is one but the best run out

at the moment is the BFG. I think it is an extraordinary film in terms of

the CGI and the performance, it is the best performance I see promotion

captures Jon Rahm. It is really charming and I think it has captured

the imagination of children really finally in the country, it is a

great, very strange piece of work but the twinkle is brilliantly

throughout. A towering performance as the BFG should have. Best DVD

out? If you cannot get to the cinema and you are not watching the

Olympics, there is a brilliance by modern warfare film called eye in

the sky starling Karen Millen and late Alan Rickman about how modern

warfare is done by drones and flying in and out of the action. It is

tensely done almost in real time about the decisions made as to

whether to launch an attack from drones. A tense film I have never

seen before and in the era of Jason Bourne, this was a more sedentary

look at the way modern spy craft is done. Lots of moral dilemmas.

Absolutely can be read things from cameras and it was Billy done. I

think it was fantastic. Great performance by Helen Mirren and Alan

Rickman, you realise how much we miss him when you watch this. Thank

you so much. That is it for this week and just so you can catch up on

the previous programmes on the eye player but thank you very much for

watching. Good evening, only a few days ago

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