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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Mark Kermode is here to take us through this week's cinema releases. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
We have some great stuff. We have Under The Shadow which is a really | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
terrific horror movie, a psychological thriller set in Iran. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
You have Deepwater Horizon based on a true life disaster. And Miss | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, which is of course the new | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
film by Tim Burton, how could it be anything else? Now, if you were to | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
pick a genre, and Iranians horror movie might not be the one you would | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
leap to. The interesting thing about Under The Shadow is it is set in | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Iran, filmed in Jordan and made by a British company. The director is | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
born in Arana but lives in Britain. It is the British submission for the | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
foreign language film for the Oscars. It is a genuinely | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
international production. The story is a mother and a apartment in Iran | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
in 1988 during the war. The mother is isolated and cannot continue | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
medical studies owing to some political views she previously | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
expressed. An unexploded missile come through the roof of the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
apartment and with it, according to the mother's daughter, have come | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
malevolent spirits that she is convinced are now walking around the | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
apartment and attempting to get her and had Dole. What the film does | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
radiantly is it sets these two characters in this scary situation | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
but then asks how much of what is happening is really happening and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
how much of it are the projections of the anxieties and fears of the | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
mother? Here is a clip. where you can see the Baumbach clip | :02:05. | :03:16. | |
that the way the camera is used is by the very natural and then becomes | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
impressionist. The sound is doing an awful lot of the heavy lifting in | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
terms of the atmosphere. What I love about this film is on the one hand | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
it owes a debt to the Guillermo del Toro fable fantasy genre about | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
warfare. There is a bit of the Babadook in their in as far as how | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
much is the mother projecting this onto the child. The Japanese film | :03:37. | :03:50. | |
called dark water is also similar. Also the Iranian vampire Western | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
film described at the time. It knows all of these references but it does | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
something new with them. It pushes the genre forward. It is really | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
confident. It makes us care about the characters. It has real | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
substance to it. When it needs to be scary, it knows what scares us. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Often you get horror films that rely on things going boo loudly. This has | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
moments of shivering. Your skin crawl. The care about the characters | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
and the situation. I want to go and see it again straightaway. It is one | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
of my favourite films of the year so far but stop it is fantastic and I | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
advise everybody to check it out. There is an historical element of | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
films this week. Deepwater Horizon is based on the real-life story of | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion but wiggly enough this is | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
like an old-fashioned disaster movie. Something like the or | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
Towering Inferno. We have cut Russell -- something like Poseidon. | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
We have cut Russell and John Malkovich. We have Mark Wahlberg as | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
the heroic figure. Peter Berg, the director, made a good decision to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
stay away from CGI and do as many effects as possible physically. They | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
built the replica of the oil rig. Apparently he went oil school to | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
learn how an oil rig works. And you really do feel that. One word of | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
advice. If you are going to see this it is worth seeing it on a big | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
screen. It is a visceral movie. It is about the physicality of the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
situation. I saw this on a very big screen and I was impressed by it. It | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
is in the tradition of those kind of disaster movies although that is not | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
a bad thing. I have more respect for them than some people do. What we | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
have seen is the gas coming up. Water comes up and mud comes up and | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
you get this sense of a great big beast of a platform that is at | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
rating point for quite a long time. It works very well in building up | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the tension. I like Tim Burton movie. So delight. I like the two | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
Jews. What about this on? Betelgeuse is such a great film -- Beetlejuice. | :06:13. | :06:28. | |
The story is that Eva Green is the Miss Peregrine who runs this home | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
that exists in a temporal loop and has pupils that include a girl might | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
than air, a girl with teeth in the back of her neck, an invisible boy, | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
boy who is full of these. These are fantastical creatures and the newest | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
arrival is Asa Butterfield's Jake. As a tragedy occurs with his | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
grandfather he is going out to find out about the home. You are what is | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
known in common parlance as wicked. 51 seconds late, Fiona. Sorry, Miss | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Peregrine. How many carrots do you need for supper? Fine just one will | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
do. They have been persecuted through the ages, hence we live in | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
places like this. I am a type of peculiar. You turn into a bird? Fine | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
I do. Yes. The main skill is the manipulation of time. We choose a | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
safe place and date and create a loop. What do you mean? Fine you | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
reset the loop and the day can be lived again. Reset it daily and you | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
can live there forever. In Thai the outside world. She commits herself | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
to the creation of upkeep of a place like this. A home pork Julia | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
children. That was not an EU approves Carat! This is such a Tim | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Burton movie. You know where you are. You know from the visual style. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
My problem is the narrative is not sure-footed. It is a complicated | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
narrative with time loops and different monsters and creatures. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Sometimes it is mad, sometimes models. It is a 12 A certificate | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
movie for a reason. Younger children will find some of the monsters scary | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
because there are some creations in there, I am 54 and I found some of | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
them creepy. I like it for the carnivalesque quality of it. I like | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
the fact that it has that Tim Burton embracing difference. That is what | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
he loves. It is just not got the classic narrative thread that I | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
think the best of Tim Burton's works have. You talk about Beetlejuice and | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
you have been talking about it being another sequel to it and that Phil | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
makes sense in its own strange way but this one doesn't in the same | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
way. It is fun and entertaining but it isn't classic Tim Burton. I had a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
weekend free so what should I see this weekend? A wonderful film out | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
called the Girl with All the Gifts. Another horror film. Directed by | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Colm McCarthy. Set in the future in which the country is overrun by | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
hungry people, sort of zombies but children may hold the key to a cure. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
It is really intelligent, really well played. It is made with a | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
limited judge budget -- budget of about ?4 million and it creates a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
world with its resources. It is not afraid to treat its audience as if | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
they are smart. It says come with us on this journey. It is interesting | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
in terms of its difference with the novel which was written at the same | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
time as the real script. This is out at the same time as Under The Shadow | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
and it is really exciting. Evidence that you can empathise with zombies? | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
Absolutely. Just don't call them zombies, call them hungries. The | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
DVDs out? When Marnie Was There. It received a slightly lukewarm | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
response from critics, I'm fairly so. It transposes the action to | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Japan. It keeps the central magic of the story about two lost souls | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
finding each other across a temporal divide. The animation is beautiful. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
The storytelling, I was talking about the storytelling not being | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
that clear in the Tim Burton film but the drawings are not only | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
beautifully done but it is the lines of the narrative. Like best movies, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
it can be seen by a young or old audience. Everyone will get | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
something out of it and everyone can embrace it. It is superb as mark, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
we're out of time. Thank you. A reminder before we go you will find | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
and reviews from across the BBC online, at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
And you can catch up on our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
well, the weather has been hit and miss today for most of us, not too | :11:11. | :11:32. | |
bad at | :11:33. | :11:33. |