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Hello, welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this | :00:00. | :00:28. | |
week's releases is Jason Solomons. Good to see you, what have you been | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
watching this week? We go to Paris for the final portrait of Swiss | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
artist Alberto and his patient subject. And the film directed by | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Stanley Tucci. Then the weather is on the agenda. As it always is at | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the weekend but this time it's extreme weather as we follow Al Gore | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
and a series of presentations around the Inconvenient sequel, a follow-up | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
to the Oscar-winning Inconvenient Truth. And in The Hitman's | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Bodyguard, Ryan Reynolds meets Samuel L Jackson and it's love at | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
first sight, well, not really. Final portrait, I am a massive Stanley | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Tucci fan as an actor. He has directed before, I don't think I | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
have seen any of them looking at the list. How does this work out? There | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
was a famous one where he played a restaurant owner with his brother. | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Stanley doesn't pop up in this film although Tony who played his brother | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
does, playing a brother interestingly. This is a story I | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
didn't know and a story Stanley Tucci, was strolling around in Paris | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
years ago and picked up this memoir of an American writer called James | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Lord. This is what the story is based on. James Lord himself is his | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
memoir. If you know his work and there is an exhibition at the Tate | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
in fact, I urge you to see that, this does feature that work. He got | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
famous for the sculptures trying to get to the essence of humanity in an | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
absurd word. Stanley Tucci doesn't concentrate on the dark heart, more | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the struggle of the ash to say and the pain it is to sit for that | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
artist because he can't make up his mind when the work is finished, if | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
ever. Here they're trying to work out how long he should book a | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
vacation for. The end of the week, yeah. I see. I could change it | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
again. I would like to know how many days do you need? I don't know. I | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
think it would be great to work for another week. A week? A week, yes, I | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
think a week would be good. No, a week is fine. That's fine. I can | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
just move my flight to next Wednesday, would that? Wednesday. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Yes. Wednesday is good. Fine. Let's say Wednesday. OK. Good. But then, | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
you know. What? There is no question of the portrait ever being finished. | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
No, of course. And that's the great Geoffrey Rush. It is. Sometimes I | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
love him and sometimes he can be, what we call a ham. He can dominate | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
the film, unbalances it. I did worry about him here. He is quite sort of | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
reined in there, there is a lot of smoking and staring at pictures, | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
challenging portraits, like are you talking to me? We also get a lot of | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
the scrape of the art, the stuff, where he worked is beautifully | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
captured by the same cameraman from The King's Speech. This bit is very | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
well done. The film takes a lot of life from the cafe Paris kind of | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
stuff, the stuff that Stanley Tucci relishes in, cafe scene where is | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
they drink wine and hard boiled eggs and meet prostitutes and swirl | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
around and it's that art, it's a romantic vision of the artist you | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
want from a film about an artist in Paris. You get that struggle but | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
also the flamboyance and indulgence with that romanticively. It's | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Stanley Tucci film, he is very much there, it's a character actor | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
directing. He is indulgent to the acting and let's the funny bits stay | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
in there. It's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
done. It's enjoyable. The way you describe the cafe scenes, I love | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
that, visually it's fantastic. But it can be a cliche. Absolutely. It | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
almost goes there and deals with a new subject, a fresh and he is | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
almost the audience oh, God I have to put up this with annoying | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
prostitute coming in and taking attention away from me. Never being | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
able to be on time or finish this portrait. It's very much about that, | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
I think it's done beautifully here. The artist at work. And Inconvenient | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
sequel, I got nervous, because you said flip chart. I think it's power | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
point presentation these days. In the first it was, an inconvenient | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
truth was a huge success and... Won an Oscar. It also changed perception | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
of Al Gore, who was this dull politician at the time and what it | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proved that | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
climate change was happening. It seemed up necessary to do so now but | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
unfortunately obviously, Al Gore seems to feel the need to do so. His | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
life has changed much. He narrowly missed out on being President and he | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
has become this travelling salesman for climate change going around | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a power point | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
around the world but also we get a film in which extreme weather | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
features. It's cinematic extreme weather, unfortunately. But there is | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
is also the fact that some people still don't believe this stuff is | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
happening. He still needs to convince people. I need no | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
convincing that fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
turbines and solar panels are, but it's difficult to get the world to | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
turn around. It's a look at this. Unfortunately, Jane, and I say this | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
with heavy heart, it's really boring. OK. Oh, no! Because I was | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
just watching the clips we are playing here, I was thinking this | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
looks like a busman's holiday for a journalist, looks like possibly a | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
interesting documentary and I am thinking are people going to pay | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
whatever they pay now to see it at the cinema? I mean, if they did, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
it's supposed to be a cure for non-believers in climate change, I | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
think it's more a cure for insomnia. Spectacular as glaciers are, they're | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
moving at a faster pace than this film. The cause itself needed a much | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
better film, a more inspiring film than it gets. It looks like | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
propaganda for the people who believe in climate change, it's an | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
easy stick to beat people. Look how boring that film is. It's a shame | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
because it's a vitally important subject treated with deathly dull | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
scenario. All right. Hitman's Bodyguard, is that boring? I | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
wouldn't call it boring. Although it is interesting because it's supposed | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
to be this light-hearted summer caper in which the light-hearted | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Ryan Reynolds who we have seen in Deadpool as a foul-mouthed superhero | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
and Samuel L Jackson, famous for his expletives and the works of | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
Tarantino. They couldn't get John Travolta so they got Ryan Reynolds. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
You definitely get a first here, there is a sort of gun fight and car | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
battle on the streets of Coventry, which has probably never happened in | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
cinema history before. Congratulations for that. Ryan | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Reynolds is supposed to be Escorting Samuel L Jackson to the Hague where | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
he is going to give witness at the trial of a Russian warLord played by | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Gary Oldman doing a Russian accent. But they argue, they get lost. Of | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
course because they feel that the film is flagging they must get a | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
laugh by having the two of them hide away with nuns on the run. OK. | :08:48. | :09:08. | |
OK. You just told me that was the best bit. It's one of the bits we | :09:09. | :09:32. | |
can show. There is no swearing or violence. It's very flippant and | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
that's all fine. Then non-stop violence and some of it you want to | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
treat in a cartoonish way but in Tom and Jerry they get squashed, it's | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
funny. The violence felt real, it hurts. Yet no one is getting hurt. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
Inconsequential violence becomes dull, almost soul-destroying while | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
you watch so much of it, I felt that. It's not the language, some is | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
colourful and swearing, it can be fun. It isn't in this. Even when | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
they have a fight in a store and a canal in Amsterdam it never reaches, | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
the fighting isn't funny and seeses to be so. When you say is it boring, | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
yes, I found it dull in that respect, it wasn't inventful | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
fighting. I thought it was plodding and reduced to Ryan Reynolds saying | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
you are going to swear again in a minute. He does. What is the best | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
out? If you haven't been on holiday this year or have stayed in the UK | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
and it's been wet how about a summer holiday with The Odyssey, it's about | :10:38. | :10:55. | |
a French Jacques Cousteau. He was remarkable in what he did. This is | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
about him, and his marriage and his son. It's a very French film. Look | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
at those hats, you couldn't get better than that. This is also about | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
ecology and other sort of clips of the Antarctic that we saw in the Al | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Gore movie. It strikes me it would be a better place without all these | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
film crews. It's the most beautiful film of the summer. The DVD, a blast | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
from the past you brought us. I don't want to make anyone feel old | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
or young, 50 years old it is this year, it's out on DVD, The Graduate | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
with Dustin Hoffman. Anne BancrOFT is the older woman | :11:41. | :12:08. | |
playing on Hoffman. It's still pretty crazy after all those years. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Thank you very much. My highlight this week may be your Russian | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
accent, we can discuss that later. Lovely to see you. Thank you very | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
much. That's just about it for this week. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Enjoy your cinema-going. Thank you for watching. See you next time, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
bye. Hello. Good evening. The weekend is | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
here. The prospects look good for many parts of | :12:40. | :12:40. |