The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Love, The Dressmaker The Film Review

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for programme across. Hello and welcome to The Film Reviw

on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark

Kermode. So Mark, what do we have I am sure that you know that we have

The Hunger Games Mocking Che part two, the conclusion of the

long-running Hunger Games series, we have Love 3-D, the controversial new

film from Gaspar Noe, and The Dressmaker, Kate Winslet in an

Australian melodrama. Let's conclude The Hunger Games. Are you a fan of

these films? What do you reckon? I think that looks means No. No point

in doing the plot because you are either to speed with it a lot. It is

the third book, divided into two hops, and this is the second half.

Pigs and exactly where the previous film left off. We are building

towards the final confrontation in this young adult dystopian fiction,

the confrontation with the president. Katniss Everdene, played

by Jennifer Lawrence, is fed up of being a symbol and wants to be a

worry. Her co-star is shaping up like an ice queen, and Peeta is

wrestling with his Demons. They would show me pictures from my life.

Now I can sort them out a little. The ones that they change. They have

these coins that are there, they are shiny, they have been glossed over.

You should get some rest. You are still trying to protect me? Real or

not real? Real. That is what you and I do. We keep each other alive. What

you can see from that is that the tone of the film is dark. To some

extent that's the problem, one thing the series must be admired for is

that it has not bottled out of following through. It has got darker

as it has gone on. It deals with convex ideas and does not run from

them and it has not sold out its heroin and that is to be admired.

The problem is that they have divided the third book into two.

This is the weakest. If the first one was battle royale and the second

rollerball and the third broadcast news, this goes a bit quantum of

solace. And the third broadcast news, this goes a bit quantum of

solace. An uneasy balance between the discursive elements and the a

film that was trying to make a film that was trying to make a

literary source work and not succeeding. I have

first time I was watching a film that was trying to

have disabled of all the of the Hunger Games like me

to see it through to its conclusion. The good news is that they have not

done some Hollywood job in which they run away from that darker

things, about power, about corruption, about taking the heroin

seriously and not imagining that her central role as part of a love

triangle. This is really much a post Twilight story. Yet the love story

has always been in the background. It is dealing with competitive

ideas. I do not think the film quite gets to grips with them but if it is

a partial disappointment, I would rather be slightly disappointed yet

have them try to do it properly than anything else. Not great but it does

not run away from its core themes. Jennifer Lawrence? Terrific,

absolutely terrific. Let's talk about Love. The latest from Gaspar

Noe. Very much a maker of cause celeb films. He said he wanted to

make a film that confronted the organic dimension of being in love.

He said he did not want to be shackled by the convention that no

film can contain overly erotic things. So you get a 3-way love

story with a young man who is a father and very disconsolate, going

back to memories of the previous lost love, and remembering his

relationships past and present in a very physical way. It is done in

3-D. Gaspar Noe says he has done this because he wanted to make a

very explicit movie and liked the idea that 3-D was immersive. I don't

buy that. It is much more like a 1969 expedition film called the

Stewardesses. The tag line was, these leggy lovelies leap from the

screen onto your lap! This is what Gaspar Noe is playing with. There

are things that are like a carnival, with the film, it has come quality

and enough shock factor to get it an audience. The problem is the three

central characters and not interesting. If you compare this to

a film like short bus which looks at a very explicit vision of the bulls

intimate lives and yet they were rounded, interesting, likeable

characters. That film had more to say on the subject of love than this

film does. It is not boring, it is an interesting experiment, but

fatally flawed by the fact that its three central characters are far

less interesting than they need to be to get us any further than a

sensational service. Given what I have read, I imagine we had to pick

that clip cleverly! I am glad we succeeded in that. That's talk about

The Dressmaker and Kate Winslet. A very peculiar film, from a novel,

the story is that in the 1950s Kate Winslet is a dressmaker who returns

to the, she was taken as a small child amid rumours of a dark

playground happening. Now she's back only with a gap next Max Singer

sewing machine to clean up the town and set right some old wrongs. She

starts by redressing the entire town including the very handsome Liam

Hemsworth. And starting to reconnect with her mother. This is a clip. She

tells them if they want it done properly got to step and be measured

because it's a work of art made special for them. You see, Tilly, I

do listen. She tells them they are all different even though they are

all the same, too fat, too skinny, you would be a sight for sore eyes!

Anywhere, low and behold, a la genius here does make them look

different. Less like themselves and more like they want to be, don't

you? You just called me Tilly! Just then! I never! You did, and this

morning, twice. Sounds like this is the most important piece of clothing

I will ever own. You can see what I mean about the

tone, on one level a bawdy comedy with terrific performances by Cape

insert and Judi Dench, the film begins like a Western with her

coming into town with a sewing the sheen like the Sheriff, then it

becomes this weird 1950s soap opera pastiche and then the tapes by an

unexpected tragedy into a John Waters Shakespearean revenge movie.

It has unbelievable tonal shifts, many of which are unexpected and

therefore enjoyable, some seem to be the film taking a left turn as if it

doesn't know where it is going. The key to it is, if you go with it, and

decide that it has an anarchic energy and you don't know which way

it will go, you can enjoy it. I sat at the screening with many people

who were flummoxed by it. I read reviews of some people saying it is

all over the place. I think that is the point! It has an anarchic

scattershot blackly comic tone. And I rather liked it. It is messy but

that is one of its strengths. No harm in being occasionally

flummoxed! I think you are more than occasionally perplexed by it but in

a good way. There were moments in the film, short of science fiction,

that was the only genre it did not go into! Riding into town with a

Singer sewing machine is a strange premise. Blood and worked for you.

The best thing out there is still Brooklyn. The leading actress soars

in the role of a young woman going to America leaving her heart

somewhere across the Atlantic. Beautifully played, if film of small

moments, a stark comparison with The Dressmaker, it has a beautiful sense

of tone all to do with understatement. I loved it and what

I loved most about it is that people who have seen it have sent messages

saying how they loved it, for some, their favourite film of the year.

Yet understated, the poster not shedding its virtues, really worth

seeing, Brooklyn, if you get a chance, do see it. Blount one to

look at home? Inside And finally coming to DVD. It goes on inside the

head of its young protagonist. Pixar work magic, children will find one

thing in it and adults another, I want this to be a best picture

contender and although it has got an outside shot I think it could well

be the first animated feature ever to win the Oscar for Best film, an

outside shot but wouldn't it be great if that actually happened.

What do you think the resistance would become a user it is not about

quality and those who have seen it would agree. The Oscars are backward

looking and it takes them a long time to change and they have never

done it before. I still think the voters have a problem with taking

animation as seriously as they should do, perhaps this is beginning

to change. This would be a lovely indication that has changed. Blount

starting to change. We have a long way to go. Where might they have

looked before this one? In the last couple of years in the best animated

feature category we have had extraordinary work. Wonderful stuff.

It has been a hotly contested category but I think this is a best

picture contender. We shall see. Mark, thank you. A quick reminder

before we go that you will find more film news and reviews from across

the BBC online. Including all our previous shows.

at bbc.co.uk/ mark kermode.

That's it for this week though. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.