Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Justice League, Mudbound

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0:00:00 > 0:00:02and Tottenham getting the day's Premier League action underway in

0:00:02 > 0:00:07the North London derby. Now, the film review.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

0:00:26 > 0:00:34So, Mark, what do we have this week?

0:00:34 > 0:00:41We have Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool with Annette Bening.

0:00:41 > 0:00:56Batman and wonder woman aback. And Mudbound. Interesting this week. The

0:00:56 > 0:01:07first film is set in the 1970s. Based on the memoir by Peter Turner.

0:01:07 > 0:01:17Late 1970s, early 1980s. Annette is great. Jamie Bell, struggling actor,

0:01:17 > 0:01:22becomes infatuated with her. They are sharing digs in Primrose Hill.

0:01:22 > 0:01:25He is bewitched.

0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hey.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34You are the next-door guy, right?

0:01:34 > 0:01:36Which makes you the girl next door.

0:01:36 > 0:01:40SHE LAUGHS.

0:01:40 > 0:01:44Hey, have you seen the movie Saturday Night Fever?

0:01:44 > 0:01:49Yes, I have seen it.

0:01:49 > 0:01:53Actually, I have saw it three times.

0:01:53 > 0:01:56Oh, you like disco dancing?

0:01:56 > 0:01:58Oh, God, like drunk dancing.

0:01:58 > 0:02:01So if I make you a drink, you will come into my room

0:02:01 > 0:02:02and hustle with me?

0:02:02 > 0:02:04I need a partner for my dance class.

0:02:04 > 0:02:07I mean, if you fix me a drink, I will come

0:02:07 > 0:02:08in and clean your bathroom.

0:02:08 > 0:02:10Huh.

0:02:17 > 0:02:22I already love it. Real chemistry between them. The film divides its

0:02:22 > 0:02:26time between the story of the rise and fall of their relationship and

0:02:26 > 0:02:31they few years later on when she falls ill and calls upon him to

0:02:31 > 0:02:35bring her back to Liverpool because she thinks she will get better in

0:02:35 > 0:02:45Liverpool. Warmth, wit, real compassion by Paul McGuigan. I love

0:02:45 > 0:02:49the way they start is the slipping back and forth in time. The

0:02:49 > 0:02:54performances were really wonderful. And it is transfixing, you believe

0:02:54 > 0:03:03in her as someone with a real movie star passed. The voice she has a --

0:03:03 > 0:03:09adopted as Marilyn Monroe. She is referred to as the other blonde,

0:03:09 > 0:03:14Marilyn Monroe. Watch the film does is make them feel like equals.

0:03:14 > 0:03:21Genuinely in love with each other. Despite the very big age gap.

0:03:21 > 0:03:26Interestingly, the film inverts the usual age - gender relationship. It

0:03:26 > 0:03:32does not make a big deal of it. A moment early on, she says she wants

0:03:32 > 0:03:37to play Juliet. He says, do not you mean the major? She says, do you see

0:03:37 > 0:03:43me as an old woman? I think and that's's performance is brilliant.

0:03:43 > 0:03:50It is Oscar time. It is really, really good but a lot of it is to do

0:03:50 > 0:03:55with the direction, attention to period detail. If you have a period

0:03:55 > 0:03:59setting and people gets things wrong, it takes you out of it. I

0:03:59 > 0:04:04thought it was charming, sweet, I was moved by it, it was touching, a

0:04:04 > 0:04:08beautiful love story. There were times it's reminded me of the

0:04:08 > 0:04:12film-making of Terence Davies because I love Terence Davies and do

0:04:12 > 0:04:17not say that likely. I think you will like Film Stars Don't Die In

0:04:17 > 0:04:28Liverpool.I am a fan of her.

0:04:32 > 0:04:36Batman and Wonder Woman need to assemble a new team. This had a

0:04:36 > 0:04:46troubled production history, Justice

0:04:54 > 0:05:01wonder Woman was doing well, the darker ones weren't doing so well,

0:05:01 > 0:05:06making Batman and Robin look Shakespearean. The film was two

0:05:06 > 0:05:11hours and 50 minutes long, someone said it was a mistake, it is two

0:05:11 > 0:05:20hours, it felt like 12. It felt like the director's cut of Heaven's gate

0:05:20 > 0:05:24without the scenery. There is too much and too little for them to do,

0:05:24 > 0:05:29no reason to care about anyone. Everyone appears to be

0:05:29 > 0:05:34indestructible and able to fly or fall with style, as they say in Toy

0:05:34 > 0:05:40Story, and it is a hodgepodge. With so much stuff in it, it is

0:05:40 > 0:05:46stunningly dull. Really, really turgid, boring, and at no point does

0:05:46 > 0:05:50the film-making lift itself. You want to be engaged, absorbed in the

0:05:50 > 0:05:55fantasy. I spent the whole of it thinking, how we nearly there yet?

0:05:55 > 0:05:59Started, went on, it stopped. The other thing, you have to wait to the

0:05:59 > 0:06:05end credits, one of those movies one character I was thrilled was not in

0:06:05 > 0:06:11the film, and at the end of the end credits, they were.Two hours of

0:06:11 > 0:06:21your life you are never getting back. But what about Mudbound? A

0:06:21 > 0:06:28novel by Hillary Jordan, it is from. Two families, their lives and

0:06:28 > 0:06:32fortunes intertwine. The main character goes off to fight in World

0:06:32 > 0:06:36War II. Heroic service, returns to Mississippi to discover that nothing

0:06:36 > 0:06:38is changed.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42You use the back door.

0:06:42 > 0:06:44Come on, son.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46Son, we don't want no trouble here.

0:06:46 > 0:06:50Go on.

0:06:50 > 0:06:52You know what, you are absolutely right.

0:06:52 > 0:06:55When we was overseas, they didn't make us use the back door.

0:06:55 > 0:06:57General Patton put us on the front line.

0:06:57 > 0:06:59Yes, sir.

0:06:59 > 0:07:02You know what we get?

0:07:02 > 0:07:03You know what we did?

0:07:03 > 0:07:06We kicked the hell out of Hitler and them Gerries.

0:07:06 > 0:07:10While y'all at home, safe and sound.

0:07:15 > 0:07:22What I like about this, the tension in that scene is really well done.

0:07:22 > 0:07:26The film covers some events and actions which are horrible, tough,

0:07:26 > 0:07:31but it has a genuine poetry to it. We hear the voices of several

0:07:31 > 0:07:36different characters telling their story. The film is keen to look at a

0:07:36 > 0:07:40story from different angles, beautifully shot by Morrison.

0:07:40 > 0:07:45Wonderful job with the photography. You feel the land, environment, you

0:07:45 > 0:07:53feel the mud of the Mudbound title. Not a foot foot wrong. The film

0:07:53 > 0:07:58manages to bring you into the world, intertwine personal and political

0:07:58 > 0:08:02stories about racial and economic tension. Was making it feel as if it

0:08:02 > 0:08:07is a personal story. It is difficult to do that without feeling like you

0:08:07 > 0:08:11are doing it. With this, you are involved in the lives of the

0:08:11 > 0:08:19characters, you see the personal and political intertwine.The people who

0:08:19 > 0:08:24say it is remarkable but actually to leak?Is that unfair? I do not

0:08:24 > 0:08:29agree. There is genuine poetry in it. Not just the lyricism of the

0:08:29 > 0:08:33visuals, but the way the film is constructed. I know a lot of people

0:08:33 > 0:08:45will end up seeing it at home because of the Netflix release. It

0:08:45 > 0:08:52is not too bleak. It has heart, tenderness, a poetic quality which

0:08:52 > 0:08:57is key to the film.Make sure you see it on the big screen?If you

0:08:57 > 0:09:02can.

0:09:02 > 0:09:09Have you seen this? The Florida Project. A family living on the

0:09:09 > 0:09:18poverty line, motels beyond the walls of Disney World. Naturalistic

0:09:18 > 0:09:21performances, the world is seen through the view of a six-year-old.

0:09:21 > 0:09:29It manages to capture that child's eye perspective. Yes, poverty, they

0:09:29 > 0:09:34live in a theme hotel, now a motel for people on minimum wage,

0:09:34 > 0:09:39struggling to make the rent. Yet, it is summer break and these young kids

0:09:39 > 0:09:46are running around, it is a wonderland to them. The film reality

0:09:46 > 0:09:51of the economics but they are looking at it with children's eyes.

0:09:51 > 0:09:55Some people have not got it and I am surprised. It is one of the best I

0:09:55 > 0:10:04have seen this year and many people feel the same way.Staying at home,

0:10:04 > 0:10:11one of the big hits of the summer?A lovely film. The

0:10:16 > 0:10:20Sick a mystery illness lands the girlfriend in a medically induced

0:10:20 > 0:10:28coma. It does not sound like subject matter for comedy, but it manages to

0:10:28 > 0:10:34do with racial prejudice, arranged marriage and so on. You get to love

0:10:34 > 0:10:42the characters. It is laugh out loud funny. The comedy is born from the

0:10:42 > 0:10:46fact that you recognise the characters, they are not living in

0:10:46 > 0:10:48the sun completely unbelievable environment, you believe in the

0:10:48 > 0:10:51situation they are in. It is well played. I laughed all the way

0:10:51 > 0:10:58through but I was moved by it, it has a melancholic edge to it. Just

0:10:58 > 0:11:02another layer with the fact that, with a certain amount of poetic

0:11:02 > 0:11:06license, it is based on a true story, and he is doing that really

0:11:06 > 0:11:17well.I am going home with your review of Justice League.

0:11:17 > 0:11:20A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news

0:11:20 > 0:11:24and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode.

0:11:24 > 0:11:28And you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iPlayer.

0:11:28 > 0:11:30That's it for this week though.

0:11:30 > 0:11:31Thanks for watching.

0:11:31 > 0:11:34Goodbye.