My guess will stop hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, mark kermode is back with us, and what have you been watching, mark . Interesting week. We have finding your feet which is a british i think is dramady i hate that word drama comedy. We have i, tonya with an astonishing central performance by margo robbie, who also produces. And dark river, the new film by clio barnard. Finding your feet even the poster looks like a quintessential british gathering. Yes. Im not sure the poster does it a lot of favours. So it is kind of aimed at the same audience that made best Exotic Marigold Hotel a huge hit. The story begins with Imelda Staunton as Lady Sandra Abbott on the eve of her retirement she has got her whole retirement all planned out, she leads a posh life suddenly discovers her husband has been having an affair. Heres a clip. 0h what the hell is going on . we were just. It is not what it looks like, sandra. Sandra. Sandra wait get off me how long has it been going on . Lets not do this here. How long, mike . Since we all went to sorrento. 0h, bloody hell. Thats nearly five years ago ive had enough of all this hide and seek, mike. How could you do this to me . Youre supposed to be my friend we even took you to the palace i i didnt mean to this to happen, sandra. Oh, really . You knew precisely what you were doing now, please calm down, sandra. Remember where you are. I know exactly where i am in my bloody own home i have spent my married life putting you and your career first. What got me through was knowing when you retired, we would share our golden years together. But instead, you have traded me in for a newer model. And let me tell you, mike, she has had more than one previous owner. And her body work is mainly filler now, you laughed at least twice. Im sorry, i laughed several times. Exactly because it is funny so then what happens is she walks out, she goes to stay with her sister, played by celia imrie, with whom she is like chalk and cheese, and her sister basically tells her look, this life that youve been leading is an artificial life. You have to learn to enjoy things more. She teaches her swimming in hampstead pond, she also takes her to dance lessons where she meets characters likejoanna lumley and a character called charlie played by timothy spall. Hence, finding your feet. Now, you know from the outset that what is going to happen is that character will soften and discover there is more to life than material possessions and this ridiculous dream of her husbands retirement. You know from the outset that when she first meets tim spall and she finds him abrasive and difficult, that shes going to warm to him. You also know from the outset that amongst the comedy, there is going to be tragedy, there are going to be tears. So the question then is how well does this all play out . And i have to say rather better than i expected. I thought it was charming and funny, not least because its a great cast, they are throwing them self into it, and having a very good time. It is well directed by richard loncraine. Yes, no cliche goes unturned. Funnily enough, it owes a certain structural debt to nativity , the debbie isitt film, and in fact, funnily enough, it would have made more sense to release this in the run up to christmas because there is a slight christmas theme to it. Its a bit odd that its coming out now. But, overall, and despite your reservations about the poster which i understand entirely i thought it was funny, i thought it was charming, i liked the performances and my heart went with it enough that when my head kept going but hang on hang on my head went just let it be. And i did, and i enjoyed it. 0k. All right, 0k, 0k. Now, i, tonya. Now, youve seen i, tonya as well . Its a good watch. It is. Its a good watch. Margo robbie, she also produces, she stars as Tonya Harding, whose career imploded after she was implicated in an attack on a fellow skater. Robbie has been nominated for awards. Essentially, the film takes the structure of telling contradictory stories. It says at the beginning based on the totally true and utterly contradictory testimonies of its central characters and during the narrative, we see each of the central characters talking to the audience either through faux interviews or by breaking the fourth wall by turning towards the audience and going this didnt happen. But essentially, it is a story of somebody who has come through an abusive background she was beaten by her husband, she is also attacked by her mother although Allison Janney is the mother, who is an award winner, as we know she says oh, for heavens sake, show me a family that dont have their ups and downs, and it manages to balance, in my opinion, the serious subject matter of Domestic Abuse which is it about with also being a film which is playing with post modern conventions in a way that it reminded me of that film 2a hour party people, in which characters would literally turn up and go this didnt happen so its a film about a story being told from lots of perspectives with a brilliant central performance but i know that you i mean, youve. Well, ifound it hugely watchable, im not gonna lie, and the story is fascinating. It was that thing of turning to camera and being veryjokey about something precisely at the moment when theyre talking about Domestic Abuse. He hasjust punched her, you know, and she the first man who comes along, and he beats her up for years, and unfortunately, that is not a subject for comedy. And her mother says, you know, at one point well, the thing is you think you deserve to be beaten and she says id never be with a man who beats me and she says but you beat up ourdad and shes well, thats different and theres one moment in which Tonya Harding has a shotgun and she turns to camera and says this absolutely never happened. I mean, i think the triumph of it is that it does deal with that serious issue whilst also being entertaining and funny and sharp and essentially giving you a kaleidoscopic portrait and saying, you know, you decide. But i think everyone watching it would come out with the same opinion that she is a survivor. Whatever else you think, she is a survivor. For sure, absolutely. And allisonjanney is a genius. That is the other thing you come out saying. She is. And she just eats that role for breakfast i mean, it is fantastic. It is herfilm, isnt it . She is just fantastic. The shape of water, wonderful. Dark river. In completely different ways. Dark river. I am jumping ahead, no, sorry actually, weirdly, you know, because of river and water, easy enough to confuse. So dark river, again, another film dealing with abuse in a very different way. This is the latest from clio barnard, who made selfish giant, which i loved. So ruth wilson plays a character who returns to the tenant farm on which she grew up. Shes been away for 15 years. Her father, her abusive father, has died, and she comes back to the farm which she feels she has a right, now, to take on the tenancy. Her bother, however, is there and disagrees. Heres a clip. Really, i mean, it is too late now, isnt it . Hes gone. Ive been driving all night. Wheres the key . Ill cover it. Ive got to get my head down. I cant do this now. The girl broke her leg, she needs colin. Im not giving you mine, though. Well, youd better get up then. I havent seen you for 15 years you. Ill. Ill wait with her. Can you call them . Now, im a huge fan of clio barnard. This takes inspiration from rose tremain, it takes its title from a ted hughes poem, it has a surface similarity to the levelling and yet, it is absolutely barnards film. Its about the way that trauma affects peoples memories, about the way that trauma affects peoples perceptions, it is about People Living with the ghost of an abusive past. It is very powerful, not least because of the performances are very good, which is something you actually always expect from clio barnard, but also because its a film which is located very much in the landscape and like the levelling, it has a idea of buried family secrets coming up from the ground. It is very atmospheric. The tone, although the subject matter is very dark, is totally unexploitative. It feels like a film which wants to understand the psychology of its characters. It is a very sympathetic film. And it takes its very complicated situation apart. I saw it twice the first time on a small screen and the second time projected, and i have to say that it is a film you have to see in the cinema because so much of it is to do with the immersive atmosphere of it. This is not a film that you want to wait until it comes out on dvd, you want to see it in the cinema. It is cinematic experience. Shes a really brilliant film maker and i thought it was a very powerful piece, dealing with difficult subject matter but dealing with it very intelligently. I cant wait, actually, and i loved the levelling and gods own country, and theres a whole theme going on there, isnt there . The message of british films at the moment seems to be dont be a farmer. Itll be really. So. The shape of water. Now, the shape of water. This is my favourite film out in cinemas at the moment. I love this movie. Guillermo del toro for my money, Guillermo Del Toros since pans labyrinth which, incidentally, i think pans labyrinth is the best film of the 21st century so far. The shape of water is on one level the creature of the black lagoon meets splash, which sounds like it shouldnt work and yet, it does. Oh, it does theres something magical about it. Superb performance by Sally Hawkins, doug jones brilliant as the creature, and of course, the thing that Guillermo Del Toro always does is he has this great love of what other people think of as monsters because the real monster in the film isnt doug jones amphibious man, it is a very human character. Its set against the backdrop of cold war paranoia and the space race. There are moments it bursts into song and there is a song and dance routinejust suddenly, in the middle of this i mean, ijust loved it. It made me laugh, it made me cry. I thought it was beautiful. I think Guillermo Del Toro is a modern day orson welles and ijust love this film to pieces. And to look at as well it is stunning 0h and i guess again, see it on a big screen because it is such a treat visually. How amazing that you can take a story which is apparently so bizarre and strange and yet, give it such mainstream appeal . It is a film that will work for pretty much anyone because it is a fairytale but it is also grounded in a strange reality. And Sally Hawkins performance, her voiceless performance, is so absolutely wonderful. Yes, terrific, yes, absolutely terrific, yes, yes. Curious but fabulous. Curious but fabulous yes, i will accept that, yep. And i love your choice of dvd, actually. I hugely enjoyed it. The party. The party, yeah. The party is a really strange the party from hell, basically. It has a sort of political backdrop. Its a group of people together in a party when this political thing is happening and they all they have secrets that suddenly get revealed and what i love about it is its a sally potter film, it is black and white, its stripped to the bone its like 71 minutes long theres not an ounce of fat on it but it is sharp, the dialogue is very acerbic, tim spall again, of course, who is in finding your feet, and is terrific in almost everything. But its got a real brittle humour to it. I thought at the beginning i would find it insular and claustrophobic because it is pretty much in one location but it really made me laugh, i thought it really found its darkly comic tone. Yes, it is a good watch. Its like a play for today. And so brief i mean, like, literally. So thats a 5 star running time thank you very much, mark. It is a cracking week. Just a reminder before we go, all of the film news and reviews from across the bbc online. And all our previous programmes are on the iplayer, of course. Its a great week. Enjoy your cinema going. Bye bye. Hello there. At least it will be warm in the cinema because for ourselves as the cold week ahead, it was cold enough today, it will be cold again tomorrow but it will be colder still as the wind strengthened and pushes the cold air across Eastern Europe across the path to there are warnings on our website, it will be cold enough as website, it will be cold enough as we start tomorrow morning anyway, we are already 1i in the glands of scotland, 5, 6 widely in the countryside and a little bit of frost and low cloud around first thing, it should clear, and we have cloud the eastern coast of counties of north east england and eastern scotla nd of north east england and eastern scotland compared with today but less cloud the northern ireland, southern parts of cornwall compared with today is it is likely some time for most of us. Outside the wind, the wind will be a factor, it will not feel as bad, but then it strengthens bring in a risk snow showers through saturday, sunday night even in the monday and they will be falling as snow because they are coming in to another very cold night of falling into the cold air, so we night of falling into the cold air, so we think monday, the risk is starting to increase that we will see some disruptions from snow showers, a few centimetres monday night in the tuesday, interesting, oui night in the tuesday, interesting, our warnings on this is bbc news. Im duncan golestani. Our top stories after days of wrangling, the Un Security Council passes a resolution calling for a 30 day ceasefire across syria. The it took as to the this resolution, how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and shelling . In the three days it took last to adopt this resolution. Democrats in the us release a long awaited memo, which counters republican claims of fbi surveillance abuses. 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