This, but you cant force the pieces to fit. Do you actually think he killed them . I dont know. I dont think either of us do, for sure. I have to say, i went in with High Expectations because i like the film makers, i like the cast, and as everyone says, the source material is terrific. Its with a heavy heart that i have to say that it was a disappointment. Its very muddled, very confused and it looks like a film that has lost its way during the film making process. It doesnt really know what its focus is. Its notjust that the narrative goes off on different tangents that dont properly tie up, its more to do with the fact that the film cant quite decide where its meant to be leading the audience. Its a terrific cast, people like charlotte gainsbourg, jk simmons and chloe sevigny, many of whom who are pretty much wasted. I never found myself gripped by the chilly, icicle to the heart idea of a killer building snowmen. Its a terrifying idea, but it terrified or gripped me and i was never convinced of the psychological back story. I neverfound myself gripped and involved in the way you want. The disappointment is made worse by the fact that you look at the pedigree of the people making the film. Alfredson is a terrific director and it looks to me like this is a film that got away. It looks like during the film making process, they just lost sight of where it was going. Confused or confusing . Confused and confusing, and it looks like it has been re edited a lot. It looks like when they got into the editing room, they have had to work very hard to make the constituent parts come together. Occasionally it happens, a film mmaker literally just misses something. The disappointment was made worse by the fact that you go in thinking, you know, great source material, apparently, terrific on screen talent and a director who i really like. But at no point. And i hate to say this, i ended up being bored. I really dont say that lightly. I wanted to like it. You dont say that very often. It didnt chill me. Michael fassbender, so versatile, very watchable but he doesnt solve this . He looked to me like he was cruising. If you look at the anguish of his performance in shame, for example, thats anguish with layers and depth. This just looked very much like going through the motions, unfortunately. The film just doesnt gel, it doesnt come together. It ends up being a series of ideas. Some arresting images, but not much more than that. Ok, for your second choice. The ritual. A horrorfilm, again thanks, mark it has a comedic edge as well. It takes inspiration from a bunch of films i know you would love the blair witch project, the evil dead, the wicker man, the hills have eyes. Of course, mark theres a group of friends and rafe spall plays luke, who goes into an off licence with one of his friends, who is then killed in a robbery. Luke feels guilty because he didnt do anything. The rest of the group then go on this bewildering camping holiday in the middle of nowhere. They need to get somewhere, one of them has hurt his leg, they take a short cut through the woods. they end up in a cabin that looks like it came straight off the set of the evil dead. Never take the short cut although its reference points are all very familiar, i think it got the Group Dynamic right. There isjokey, bantery dialogue, so the air of horror is built well. It does that very good thing about withholding its revelations until the last possible moment. I think that although youre going to recognise certain riffs from it, they are done in a way which is sympathetic enough to the characters to make you involved. All the way through, there is this guilt that they have, that rafe spalls character feels guilty for this thing that happened in the past, and the rest of the group do kind of blame him as well, so it works on different levels. I was pleasantly surprised because i had gone in thinking this looks so much like the blair witch project meets wicker man meets the evil dead. Although they are touchstones, i think it did something new with them, and it worked. When it needed to be monstrous, it was, but it withheld that. I think youd enjoy it. I know you want to be converted i am a big rafe spall fan. Go see it as a rafe spall movie and not as a horror movie. I am far more likely to go and see loving vincent, as everybody can tell you. The phrase labour of love was invented for this film. Unbelievable. An oil painted animated feature which basically brings the work of van gogh to life as an animation. The story was shot first as live action, which the artists then used as the basis for doing the incredible painting of the animations. If you think of Something Like waking life, i think that would be an example. The narrative unfolds after van goghs death. The central character, played by douglas booth, is entrusted to deliver a letter which vincent wrote to his brother, theo. That takes him back to the place where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days and they end up speaking to everyone to find out what happened, how it was that someone who seemed to be on the straight and narrow shortly before their death met this terrible ending. One of the characters he meets is played by saoirse ronan. Here is a clip. You want to know so much about his death, but what do you know of his life . I know that he tried hard to prove he was good for something. Yes. He did. Thats why i take flowers to his grave. Thats all i can do for him now. He would appreciate the delicate beauty of their bloom. Even each blade of their grassy stems. No detail of life was too small or too humble for him. Now, i think it is the case that certain bits of the dialogue are a little bit on the nose, but i didnt care because i was so entranced by the visuals. You saw, just from that, just how extraordinary it is. There are flashback sequences which are done in monochrome, black and white, which are almost photorealist. So it goes from that to these much more painterly, swirly, starry night constructions. And even if you know as little about art as i do, it is thrilling to watch this. Firstly, because you just think, this must have taken so long i mean, the effort that has gone into it. It was the best part of six years. Its extraordinary. 65, 000 separate canvases. It feels tactile. You can feel that. People talk about Computer Graphics and that sort of thing, but you can feel the work that has gone into it. And what i thought was really wonderful was, you do feel as if you have been transported into the paintings. You do feel as if you have been transported into this world. And, as i said, the flashback stuff is black and white. The newer stuff is in that sort of full colour. And its got a kind of dreamy, mesmerising, strange, half awake, half asleep. You obviously recognise the actors, the performances, as you saw from that clip. I just sat there thinking, this is really unlike anything i have seen before. And there are things about it, as i said, in terms of the narrative and the dialogue that perhaps you can pick apart, but why would you want to . Just sit back and take it in. And enjoy the beauty, the colours it is so rich it is a really, really remarkable film. Fascinating. Just such a fascinating idea that they even managed to sell that, and they said, you know what, go away and make that. That is staggering, isnt it . Blade runner . Its very long blade runner 2049. Have you seen it . No. I was thinking about the original, which i saw 300 years ago. And i have not seen this yet. And people will be looking, thinking, do i really need to sit there for two and three quarter hours . Well, i went into it thinking, gosh, thats a long running time, and i came out thinking, im really glad it was that long, because it had the bravery to take itself at the pace it required. Im a huge fan of the original blade runner, the final cut version, not the original version with the ridiculous voice over. I am decker and i am an android hunter. Not that version. And i thought, in the case of this, it had the themes of the original. Hampton fancher, who obviously wrote the original, is the co writer of this version. I think Denis Villeneuve did a brilliantjob with realising a world in the same way that ridley scott had realised a world in blade runner. I know that some people have found it alienating and some people have found it a movie whose gender politics they have a problem with. I didnt. I thought it was very, very true to the original. And believe me, i was very trepidatious, and i have seen it twice now, so in total, thats the best part of six hours and i could happily go back and see it again tomorrow. Ok, you definitely werent bored . Never bored a quick thought about dvd . A man called 0ve, which is this beautiful film. A couple of oscar nominations. The story of a guy who is a curmudgeon, a widower, and we see through his relationship with his neighbours, how his life has turned him into the person he is. That phrase where people talk about bittersweet comedy, this is a genuinely bittersweet comedy. There are things in it that will make you laugh, there are things that will make you cry. Its heartbreaking, its moving, its tender. And it was a real surprise because i knew nothing about it beforehand and i really enjoyed it, i loved it when it was out in the cinema. And now its out on dvd. A man called 0ve. Great stuff, thank you very much, mark. A really interesting week. Thank you, and a quick reminder before we go, youll find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online. Im sure you know the address by now bbc. Co. Uk markkermode. And you can find all our previous programmes on the iplayer as well, of course. That is it for this week. Enjoy your varied cinema going. Thanks for being with us bye bye. For those of you who remember 30 yea rs for those of you who remember 30 years ago, on monday we had a great storm of 1987, a ferocious storm that struck the British Isles and something spooky is happening on monday, hurricane of philia, or ex hurricane of philia, slowly falling apart, will be making a very close approach to the uk if not actually moving across ireland and the British Isles so we have potentially Stormy Weather on the 30th anniversary on the way. But by no means is any of this certain. Before that, we have warm air pushing in from the south, for the weekend the weather is looking pretty good across many parts of the country but not for everybody. And across western scotland, into Northern Ireland, we have some rain, this is cloud breaking up across western parts of the uk, some sunshine in some spots here and around 19 degrees expected at the very least in london. If the cloud brea ks very least in london. If the cloud breaks for longer, temperatures could exceed 20 degrees. Saturday night is a drying out across england and wales but not across scotland, at least western and northern parts. Some rain here and reaching Northern Ireland also. Sunday, you can still see rain across the north west of the country but despite that, temperatures getting up to 17 in belfast and these values, 20 in london, that is conservative, could be higher. If we get sunshine, temperatures could be up to 2a degrees, that is the most we will be able to squeeze out of it. Back to hurricane of philia, by this stage it is as on the other hurricane but still some ferocious winds and this is the track, at this stage, it could go across ireland, it could go further towards the east of the west but the thinking is the west is of a strong wind, damaging winscombe two buildings and trees. We will keep you posted. Here is the summery for the next few days, a warm weekend then we are watching that x hurricane closely and the closest approach is monday, into tuesday. Some nasty weather potentially on the way. At the same time, when we have that Stormy Weather, other parts of the country in the east could still be enjoying warm sunshine. This is a tale of two hands. The shredder two halves. This is bbc world news today. Im lukwesa burak. Our top stories President Trump has just set out a new, more confrontational approach to iran. He condemned tehran as a fanatical regime and refused to sign off the International Nuclear deal. 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