Fast & Furious 8, The Handmaiden, The Sense of an Ending

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:00:00. > :00:00.Indy 500. And we will hear from Katie Archbold who has won Britain's

:00:00. > :00:00.first gold at the world track cycling Championships. Now on BBC

:00:00. > :00:27.music is time for the Film Review. Hello and welcome to the Film Review

:00:28. > :00:32.on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases is James

:00:33. > :00:36.King. What do we have this week? First up, fast cars and tight

:00:37. > :00:43.T-shirts. It is the return of Vin Diesel in the fast and the theory of

:00:44. > :01:00.eight. From the ridiculous to the sublime, Count The Handmaiden. And

:01:01. > :01:08.The Sense Of An Ending. So fast and theory of eight. Have you seen the

:01:09. > :01:12.others? A couple. This is such a huge franchise, this one will be

:01:13. > :01:17.huge. The interesting thing about the franchise is where they go with

:01:18. > :01:22.it. They have to give audiences what they want which is generally

:01:23. > :01:28.speaking the big action scenes which the car chases. This time round, Vin

:01:29. > :01:34.Diesel who plays the lead character has gone rogue. He has gone to the

:01:35. > :01:41.dark side. He is linked up with a superb criminal called Cypher played

:01:42. > :01:45.by Charlize Theron. He is playing the bad guy again. We have a clip of

:01:46. > :01:52.them. This is what Vin Diesel does for most of the movie which has

:01:53. > :01:59.looked puzzled. Here he is. Let me ask you something, Dom, what is the

:02:00. > :02:03.best thing in life? Family. No, it is not. Not if you are being honest.

:02:04. > :02:08.It is the ten seconds between start and finish when you're not thinking

:02:09. > :02:19.about anything, no family, no obligations, just you, being free. I

:02:20. > :02:22.got to tell you, this whole saving the world Robin Hood nonsense you

:02:23. > :02:35.have been doing recently, it is not you. Be who you are. Why live only a

:02:36. > :02:41.quarter of a mile at a time when you can live your whole life that way. I

:02:42. > :02:47.think we get a sense there. I'm just looking at the cast list, Helen

:02:48. > :02:50.Mirren? Helen Mirren playing Jason Statham's mum, who would have

:02:51. > :02:55.thought it? She is actually funny in it. It is a deliberately over the

:02:56. > :02:59.top cockney sparrow performance from her. Jason Statham provides the best

:03:00. > :03:24.moment of the film. It is a scene where he is fighting the bad

:03:25. > :03:29.guys on a plane, at the same time as trying to save a baby in a carrying

:03:30. > :03:32.cot, so he has two punch people on second and the next second look

:03:33. > :03:34.after the baby. It is like something Jackie Chan would have done. It is

:03:35. > :03:37.an entertaining scene in the movie. A lot of it is car chases. That is

:03:38. > :03:40.fine, that is what people want. Is it doing anything different to the

:03:41. > :03:43.other ones? I am not sure. It is a formula and it is sticking closely

:03:44. > :03:46.to it. What will number nine look like? I hope it will shock us. I

:03:47. > :03:49.hope it will take more risks. I enjoyed number eight, it did a good

:03:50. > :03:52.job but it was occasionally treading water and I wanted more surprises.

:03:53. > :03:56.Although this one will be massive, I hope the next one will take more

:03:57. > :04:10.risks. Let's talk about handmaiden. This is a film you really like? This

:04:11. > :04:14.is great. It is inspired by the book Fingersmith by Sarah Walters. It is

:04:15. > :04:20.erected by Park Chan-wook who is South Korea's most respected film

:04:21. > :04:24.director. He has moved the action from Victorian England to 1930s

:04:25. > :04:27.occupied Korea. But the story is generally the same. A young girl

:04:28. > :04:33.from a criminal background goes to work for the Lady of the manner that

:04:34. > :04:38.she is actually there to swindle her out of her fortune. Unlike the book,

:04:39. > :04:41.it really relishes the power of storytelling, in other words, it is

:04:42. > :04:47.the twists and the turns, it is the horror, the comedy, the romance, it

:04:48. > :04:52.throws everything into the mix and does it in a really luxurious and

:04:53. > :04:58.lush way. I want to call it a romp but that sounds throwaway but it is

:04:59. > :05:01.not. It is a costume drama? A costume drama but heartfelt.

:05:02. > :05:05.Although it is fun to watch because there is so much going on, it is

:05:06. > :05:10.intelligent and heartfelt and tender. Ultimately, it is a romance.

:05:11. > :05:13.It is a beautiful, tender love story. Absolutely beautiful to

:05:14. > :05:35.watch, highly recommended. And a major twist? At least one. I

:05:36. > :05:37.had read the book so I knew the twist. The end of The Handmaiden,

:05:38. > :05:40.the movie was different to Fingersmith. It will still a joy to

:05:41. > :05:43.watch. Let's move on to The Sense Of An Ending. This was from the book by

:05:44. > :05:49.Julian Barnes which won the Booker prize. This is about Tony who is

:05:50. > :05:52.semi retired and works in a camera shop. Out of the blue he gets a

:05:53. > :05:58.letter saying the mother of his ex-girlfriend from when he was a

:05:59. > :06:02.teenager has died and he has been left something in her will. This

:06:03. > :06:06.gets him reminiscing and looking back to when he was at college. In

:06:07. > :06:13.the present day, that ex-girlfriend is played by Charlotte Rampling so

:06:14. > :06:19.here is Jim and Charlotte getting to know each other again. Let's take a

:06:20. > :06:28.look. Are you married, I take it? Not married. Never? Mysterious to a

:06:29. > :06:32.fault. I'm divorced, in case you were wondering. I wasn't but I am

:06:33. > :06:38.sorry to hear that. On the contrary, very happily so. The best decision

:06:39. > :06:46.we ever undertook. In fact, she recently accused me of having built

:06:47. > :06:52.a shrine to you, no less. A shop, when I told her it was you who gave

:06:53. > :06:58.me my first like. And what did you say? A remarkable cast. The only

:06:59. > :07:04.criticism I have read about The Sense Of An Ending is a criticism of

:07:05. > :07:10.the ending! It is certainly a story that deals with quite subtle and

:07:11. > :07:14.nuanced arguments about memory and the past and subjectivity, so in a

:07:15. > :07:19.way it can never have a big punch of an ending. In a way, the ending had

:07:20. > :07:22.to be slightly anti-climactic, because that is sort of what it is

:07:23. > :07:25.about, but when you have performances like Jim Broadbent,

:07:26. > :07:36.Charlotte Rampling who does Stern and mysterious better than anyone

:07:37. > :07:38.else, when you have that calibre of performers in a movie, however

:07:39. > :07:42.subtle and nuanced the story is, and it is slow, the more you are drawn

:07:43. > :07:46.in. I liked that it dealt with quite abstract subjects. And it goes back

:07:47. > :07:51.to the 60s? It takes awhile to get to know the story if you have not

:07:52. > :07:54.read the book already, so it takes awhile to work where the penny will

:07:55. > :08:02.drop but for me that as part of the joy of the film that you have to

:08:03. > :08:04.work a bit to get into it. . And with Jim Broadbent and Charlotte

:08:05. > :08:12.Rampling you will not go far wrong? He is more of a curmudgeonly in this

:08:13. > :08:20.movie but he does it row well. Now, you have chosen Roar. Mark waxed

:08:21. > :08:25.lyrical about this. It is an arthouse cannibal movie. He would be

:08:26. > :08:30.upset if I did not mention it! I really liked it. It does have an

:08:31. > :08:35.unwavering commitment to unsettling the audience. It is set in the

:08:36. > :08:41.veterinary College about a teenage girl who discovers her taste for

:08:42. > :08:46.flesh, taste for cannibalism, and it is genuinely creepy and weird. The

:08:47. > :08:49.lighting, the music, the performances, it has this sort of

:08:50. > :08:54.industrial brutalist backdrop and surreal moments, and it is not often

:08:55. > :08:58.with horror films you can say I just haven't seen anything like it

:08:59. > :09:04.before, and it genuinely disturbed me. But Raw did that and did it in a

:09:05. > :09:09.beautiful way. It is an elegant full. She starts as a vegetarian!

:09:10. > :09:14.His darts as a vegetarian but things happen at college which make her

:09:15. > :09:26.realise she is perhaps not quite as vegetarian as she thought. -- she

:09:27. > :09:29.starts as a vegetarian. On the squeamish is Gail, it sounds like

:09:30. > :09:32.something, where would you pitch it in taste? It is squeamish because it

:09:33. > :09:35.is beautifully done. Because of the elegance that makes it more

:09:36. > :09:38.horrific. Sometimes if it is straight out blood and guts stroke

:09:39. > :09:42.movie it is so in your face and there is nothing to it. When it is

:09:43. > :09:54.more subtle, that is actually creepier. Let's move on, please!

:09:55. > :09:58.Let's move onto DVD. This is Sully, the pilot who managed to land his

:09:59. > :10:05.plane on the Hudson River. It is directed by Clint Eastwood. It was

:10:06. > :10:11.raved about at the time. Although you expect it to be about the crash

:10:12. > :10:14.landing in 2009, it is in there, you see that, you experience that, but

:10:15. > :10:21.it also shows you what happened before. It also shows you Sully

:10:22. > :10:23.afterwards. It shows you the investigation which happened

:10:24. > :10:30.afterwards. He has to prove that he did the right thing, that he is a

:10:31. > :10:33.hero, and of course Tom Hanks can do the everyday down-to-earth

:10:34. > :10:40.reasonable hero probably better than anyone else. So it is not perhaps

:10:41. > :10:45.the movie you would expect that that makes it all the better, because it

:10:46. > :10:50.does delve a lot deeper. And it is that quiet unfussy... Unfussy is the

:10:51. > :10:55.word for it. Clint Eastwood does that very well. He brings movies in

:10:56. > :11:01.on budget and on time. He does it intelligently and you see all of

:11:02. > :11:06.that in this movie. James, always a pleasure. James King there. That is

:11:07. > :11:07.it for this week, thanks for watching.