Mindhorn, Harmonium, Sleepless The Film Review

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review. Hello and welcome to the film review

on them BBC News to take us through this and are releases as Mark

Kermode. This is a big bag this week. We have Mindhorn, in which an

80s TV detective plays it for real. We have Harmonium, a Cannes

prizewinner. And Jamie Foxx in the thriller Sleepless. Mindhorn I am

smiling before I start. I loved Bergerac back in the day. A TV

detective on Jersey, you see images from my town and all the third Reich

comes back. Mindhorn is a 1980s TV -- all the memories come back.

Mindhorn is a 1980s TV detective but is more like Alan Partridge got

ready. He played Mindhorn with a bionic lead an outside to see the

truth. Julian Barratt plays the actor who plays him. He's now he's

washed up, balding, doing adverts. For orthopaedic sock. He's desperate

for a job. The Isle of Man police get in touch and say we have a

suspected serial killer who will only speak to Mindhorn, the

fictional character he believes is real. The police state, and play

Mindhorn for us to help us get him. So he thinks, this is a career

providing opportunity to make the most. Is a clip. OK, here's a list

of prompts, the stick to script. And avoid any of these trigger words.

Insane, nonstop, mental. Usual stuff. Is this the phone? That is

the phone. Great. The app. Actually, if you could keep it in

its cradle. You're laughing all the way through that. What then happened

is he thinks this is going to be a massive publicity opportunity but

doing the course of that committee meets characters from his old life.

Davies is co-starring on-screen butties in love with her. She's now

with his stuntman, his duck stuntman. Steve Coogan plays as the

spin off character who has become successful and he is jealous. It's

interesting, funny in the moments of comedy comes together. You about is

terrific, Kenneth Branagh plays himself, Simon Callow plays himself.

Not Simon Cowell. There are plenty of laughs all the way through. My

only reservation is that sometimes it feels like a 30 minutes get

stretched out to 90 minute movie. That said, it's really nice to see

the Isle of Man playing the Isle of Man. There are so many movies where

the Isle of Man played Ireland in waking Ned, and me and Orson Welles,

and Cornwall in Stonebraker. It's nice to see the point being that

they are on the Isle of Man. When it's funny, it's funny and the

physical comedy works well. If you have that nostalgic thing you are

talking about. Things like Bergerac and the $6 million man. Those jokes

will work. I thought it was funnier than it was expecting, it's

inconsistent but it works when it works. It has a great supporting

cast. Andrea is great. The joke is funnier because she is playing it

straight, reacting with a straight face. It entertained me even though

it's uneven. OK. They could not be more different from Harmonium. This

is a Cannes prizewinner. It that has a mysterious stranger who turns up

on the door of a family, father, mother and young child. The father

recognises him, gives a job and food and lodging, and the wife says, who

is he? How do you know him? He says he's an friend. It's evident he's an

old friend from eight heart of the husband's pass that the wife doesn't

know about it. Slowly, the film reveals its secrets. What I liked

about it was it's a movie in which the story is not told through what

he will say that through what they do, through their actions, the way

they stand and behave. He immediately get to see with this

character, he has been possibly in confinement. The journey sleep of

the light on, he eats food fast, you know more about these characters

than they tell you. The films and moves from something that seems to

be understated and low-key to something that is actually quite

tragic and dramatic. The change happens almost imperceptibly. It's a

film that wrong-footed me several times I didn't know whether it was

going, but I found myself gripped. When the big revelations occur, they

are also more powerful. It's cold Harmonium because doing it, the

young daughter is learning to play the instrument. The stranger

actually starts to teach her how to play an instrument, which seems to

be partly innocent but also seems oddly threatening. That is pretty

much the tone of the whole film. I have read the word leak in relation

many times. People have suddenly, it is bleak but it is also very human.

It's not just bleak. It's engaging in the way it makes its dramatic

punch work even better. That is moved to Sleepless. This is a Jamie

Foxx vehicle? What's your take? From a film in which violence is

everything to one where noise is everything. Jamie Foxx is a cop who,

very early on, we see him get a large staff of drugs with his

partner. If you have a large stash of drugs they belonged to somebody.

They belong to a casino owner who wants the back and decides he will

kidnap Jamie Foxx's sun. Meanwhile, Rachelle Monaghan is a internal

affairs agent on the trail of Babcock. Another criminal, all of

whom end up in this casino Golding double-crossing, chasing each other

and fighting each other. His eclipse. -- here is a clip.

RAP MUSIC Stay right there! The Kop's sun, we have him! He will

bring the dope. I take? -- OK? No! That's pretty much the tone of the

film all the way through. The thing is, that idea of the single

location, if you think about a thing like die hard, or snake eyes, maybe

this is tapping income but doesn't have the punch or panache of either

of those phone. A bunch of people chase each other around a confined

space and it's lots of running, jumping, Ponting, shooting. It never

engages I dramatic level. There are some good performances in it but you

keep thinking, it is OK, I quite like watching this, but it never

actually gets under your skin and use, grow its ironic it's cold

Sleepless, but does it's not a movie that engages keeps you awake. The

whole whole sections on it that you think, yeah, I have been here

before. As seen this done better. I'm not particularly gripped this

time round. Is it a remake of a French film? Apparently the original

is very good. I wonder why films that were made a few years ago need

to be remade another language. There is no reason. On that note, let's

talk about Lady Macbeth. If there wasn't a general election, I would

have seen. I'm looking forward to it. It's really good. Firstly, the

director has come out of theatre. I think he made one short film before.

This is a really good piece of thin. Fantastic central performance by

Florence Pusey will huge. She will clearly be a major star. -- Florence

Pugh. The director did Siberian Lady Macbeth, it takes the action to

Victorian north-east England and it is a really engaging story with a

great central performance and one of those soundscapes that draws you in,

tells the story again more through the whistling of the wind and the

creaking of the chairs than it does to the dialogue. We would love it.

It is worth seeing but see it in this cinema, don't wait for the DVD.

OK, good tip. Talking of DVDs, for someone who doesn't have, in this

week 's case, a lot of time in our hands, for the Scorsese. I was

ambivalent about silence when it came out in the cinema. This is a

project that Scorsese wanted to do for decades and decades. Based on

the 1966 historical novel on persecution in the 17th century

Japan. It is a film made in integrity and honesty. I think

doesn't dramatic failings in it, but it looks absolutely beautiful and

Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam driver are normally the stars but

the Japanese car still the show. One of its stars was an Harmonium. Fix

either the Japanese stars Perhaps you underestimated at first

time round. Although it's often not perfect, it was interesting watching

it again and seeing it is deeper and more resonant than first time round.

So worth having a go although it is a tough watch. No question, it's a

tough watch. Mark, thanks as ever. See you next week, a quick reminder

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from both of us. Thanks for watching, happy cinema going.

Goodbye. It's been lovely in western Scotland

for days now. Plenty of sunshine and some warmth and we got it again