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pentathlon. We will hear from Mo
Farah as he prepares for a new half | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
marathon run in London. That is on
Sportsday at 6.30, but now it is | 0:00:00 | 0:00:05 | |
time for the film review. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:16 | |
Hello and welcome to
The Film Review on BBC News. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
To take us through this week's
cinema releases is Mark Kermode. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
So Mark, what do we have? | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
Which have Red Sparrow with Jennifer
Lawrence. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
With we have the fantastic woman
which is up for Best Foreign Film | 0:00:33 | 0:00:42 | |
language at the Oscars and game
night. Red Sparrow. It is | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
interesting. It is based op a book
by a former CIA operative. Jennifer | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
Lawrence is is a Russian ballerina
who is violently recruited to become | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
a sparrow, an understood cover
intelligence agent. She is taught | 0:00:57 | 0:01:03 | |
how to seduce her prey. She meets
Joel Edgerton and we know she has to | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
win her confidence. It seems they
both understand what the other is. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
Here is a clip.
Dominika. You know my name? You told | 0:01:11 | 0:01:19 | |
me. You stole my ID from the pool.
That would be illegal. Were you just | 0:01:19 | 0:01:29 | |
looking for me I would know where to
find you if I was. Did you wanted me | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
to know you were following me or are
you clumsy. Clumsy. You Americans | 0:01:34 | 0:01:39 | |
think we are so interested in you.
What made you want to become a | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
translator. My mother is ill. My
uncle helped me get the job. Your | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
uncle is a very powerful man. In my
country if you do not matter to the | 0:01:49 | 0:01:55 | |
men in power you don't matter. I
would like to see you again. Are we | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
going to become friends? Is that
what you want? I don't have. Any. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:06 | |
There is a Russian restaurant, have
dinner with me. So it is an odd | 0:02:06 | 0:02:13 | |
movie. On the one hand it looks like
a mainstream glossy thriller, it is | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
directed by Francis Lawrence who did
some of The Hunger Games movie, and | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
it has English and American actors
speaking Russian accents like that. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
But the other side is it is nasty.
It was precut from an 18 to get a 15 | 0:02:28 | 0:02:35 | |
certificate, and in the very first
assignment she has. There is a | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
graphic sexual assault when she is
sent to the training cap. It is | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
really quite tough and distressing
and oddly explicit and then the | 0:02:44 | 0:02:49 | |
violence, the outbreaks of violence
during the movie are wince inducing | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
fare. I imagine that some people who
are Jennifer Lawrence fans might | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
find it hard to take. It is saying
this is really rough, and nasty | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
stuff. Then you think, well,
Jennifer Lawrence's fans have come | 0:03:04 | 0:03:11 | |
through Mo: She is having a run of
peculiar films. And that strange | 0:03:11 | 0:03:18 | |
science fiction movie. Like the fact
she makes bold and strange choice, I | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
like the fact she doesn't play it
safe. She is the centre of movie. It | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
is very changeable tonely so some
times it is high camp, sometimes it | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
is people chewing the scenery and
sometimes it is really, you know, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
nasty and I mean properly nasty
gritty and I know some people have | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
found that intolerable. I think it
is interesting, I think it is | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
nothing like as mainstream as I
expected it to be and that is for | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
the better, but it is not for
everyone. I cannot handle violence | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
at all as you know. You are not
going to embrace it. So. It is not | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
going to happen. However. A
Fantastic Woman. Daniela Vega who is | 0:03:55 | 0:04:04 | |
brilliant as Marina. She finds
herself shut out of her own life, | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
when he older partner dies and her
family, the family of her partner | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
suddenly descend and said you can't
come to the funeral, the wake, you | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
cannot stay in the apartment you
have been living with Orlando in, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
you need to give back the car. The
reason they find her threatening, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
not just because he is the other
woman but she is a transgender | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
woman. They quest consequently think
she is a threat to their what they | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
call their normal lives. Throughout
the film she says my name is Marina | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
but they refuse to call her that.
One of the sons calls her Maurice. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:41 | |
At one point the wife calls her
Daniel. It is about finding her own | 0:04:41 | 0:04:46 | |
space, what is interesting is that
her name is echoed in the visual mow | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
teaches. It opens with water fall, a
sea scape, the film itself goes from | 0:04:51 | 0:04:58 | |
being classical romance, to social
realist drama, to a thriller, at one | 0:04:58 | 0:05:04 | |
point it turns into a musical with
levitation sequence, I thought it | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
was wonderful. I thought Daniela
Vega was wonderful. Mesmerising in | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
the role. You understand and care
about her character and the | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
situation she is in and I thought it
was a really good piece of work. I | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
loved it so much I went straight
back and watched again a second time | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
because I throughout there was so
much in it. There is a | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
recommendation. Fantastic. I look
forward to that. Game night. I have | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
read quite a lot about this film and
I still don't understand what it is | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
about. OK so it is, basically here
is the best way of describing it. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
Game night. It lifts its rifts from
the game, the movie and date night. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:45 | |
Hence game night. There are two
characters who are obsessed with | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
games, they agree to take part in a
murder mystery but when it starts | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
off maybe it is not a game. Maybe it
is real. Maybe this loaded gun is | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
not a prop. That is the thrill. It
is a kind of, an idea we have seen | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
done before, if you think about
films Like Afterhours or Into the | 0:06:02 | 0:06:08 | |
Night, however it begins with them
having game night with their | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
friends. Here is a clip.
Come on. And go, go, go. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:21 | |
Ey, famous actor we meed about eight
years ago. Who? The only actor we | 0:06:21 | 0:06:31 | |
have met at an airport? He was in
front of us. We wondered why he | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
wasn't in the first class lounge?
Yes, yes... Who that was? God dam | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
it. There is a room of people to
helps you out. He was Incredible | 0:06:40 | 0:06:54 | |
Hulk Richard Gere never played the
Incredible Hulk. Ed Norton. That is | 0:06:54 | 0:07:00 | |
why the games are so annoying. You
laughed all the way through that. A | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
comedy can only count if it makes
you laugh more than six times. You | 0:07:05 | 0:07:10 | |
laughed more than six times. I
looked at the trailer and thought it | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
is going to be that movie we have
seen umpteen versions of but I got | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
away with it because the cast gave
it their best, the gags are funny, I | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
think that gag about Richard Gere,
that is a good, and that standard of | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
gag is kept up all the way through.
These very sort of conFried set ups, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:37 | |
they bump into people they think are
being criminals, but they are real | 0:07:37 | 0:07:41 | |
criminals, or are they? I kept
laughing. It kept me laughing and | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
nobody was more surprised than I was
that that was the case. OK. I am | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
still 100% sure. OK. Fantastic Woman
is one you will love. I am sure | 0:07:51 | 0:07:58 | |
about the Shape of Water. I love it.
It is wonderful. Do you feel as | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
strongly as I do? I loved it in a
curious way but I enjoyed every | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
moment. It is great it has been
nominated. If it looks wonderful, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:14 | |
brilliant score, fantastic
performances and I have seen it | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
three times and I will watch it
again, it is a lovely fairy tale. It | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
is Splash meets the creature from
the black lagoon. Should I say see | 0:08:21 | 0:08:27 | |
it on a big screen, visually it is
so impressive. When it comes out on | 0:08:27 | 0:08:32 | |
DVD I will tell you, I will lie. You
will have it in the best DVD | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
category. That for this week is
Florida project. It is a shame it | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
wasn't more represented at the
awards. Willem Dafoe is the only one | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
who has been represented. I think it
is great. It is a humanist, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:51 | |
wonderful modern version of Our Gang
from the director of Tangerine. A | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
shame it has falling into one nod.
That tells you what you need to know | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
about awards, they are nonsense. It
is beautifully made and it is | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
starring some people, some of the
people in it have not had formal | 0:09:07 | 0:09:12 | |
acting training alongside like
people like realm Defoe. You get | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
someone who is a seasoned
professional against a first timer | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
and it work, there is no sense of
having an imbalance between the | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
performances because actually it is
because the director does a | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
brilliant job of putting everyone
right in the space and you know, the | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
whole film takes place just beyond
the boundaries of Disney World so it | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
is like you have been cast out of
the magic kingdom into a nether | 0:09:37 | 0:09:41 | |
world. Into people in real American
poverty. Alongside Disney World. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:46 | |
Living in a hotel designed as a
resort hotel but has become a hotel | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
for people who are in poverty, who
are homeless, yet there is vibe sip, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
life, the characters are wonderful.
I thought it was terrific. I thought | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
it was going to be an awards
contender, get everything and that | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
shows... To be fair you did say that
I wasn't going to remind you. Am the | 0:10:04 | 0:10:10 | |
first to admit I can't predict
awards. It should have been | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
nominated for more. Should have been
a contender. More next week. Before | 0:10:13 | 0:10:19 | |
we go, there are all the film news
and reviews from across the BBC | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
online, you know the address I am
sure. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
All our previous programmes are on
the iPlayer as well. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
That is it for this week, enjoy your
cinema going. See you next time. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
Goodbye. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:43 | |
cinema going. See you next time.
Goodbye. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 |