But dont forget that you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. And if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. A big thank you to my guests this evening, rob merrick and anne ashworth. From all of us, thank you for watching. Next on bbc news its time for the film review. Hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. Taking us through this weeks cinema releases, mark kermode. Hello. Hi. Mixed bag this week. We have tell it to the bees, which is a new british drama. We have the lion king. Is it live action or animation . And varda by agnes a film maker looks back on her life and career. Lets start with tell it to the bees, which is adapted from a book by fiona shaw which i confess i have not read. I know you have seen the film. I have not read the novel either, actually. We are both working on just the basis of the film. Holliday grainger is lydia, who is raising her son on her own in rural scotland. She finds herself homeless, and this new doctor actually, returning doctor, jean, played by anna paquin offers her a housekeeperjob because she doesnt have anywhere else to live. So she moves in, and the two women become very friendly. This kind of story is seen through the eyes of the young son. In the beginning, there is a voiceover of what did he see, what didnt he see . He becomes particularly fascinated by the fact, in the garden there is a hive of bees, and hes really interested in the way in which the bees live together in their society, and he is told by anna paquins character, you tell your secret to the bees, which i think is where the title comes from. The bees sort of seem to serve a larger role which is both mirroring and, in some cases, actually moving on the story. Heres a clip. Oi, oi get off oh, its on me get it off me stay still. No. We mustnt. What did you do to the bees . No, nothing, i, erm. So. And this is the 505. Its a period drama but i do think it still has some relevance, because it talks about some pretty tough subjects. It talks about homophobia, it talks about racism, it talks about domestic abuse. It does all of those things quite frankly. It is sort of upfront about them. There are a couple of scenes in the film that did make me wince because they are kind of tough. My problem is this. I didnt that its very well intentioned, and i think its solidly played. Im not entirely sure that, on the screen, the bee metaphor works, because up to a point, there is this idea of the discussion, youre telling your secrets to the bees, the hive mind. Its fine. There are moments, however, in which the bees to start to play an active part in the narrative, in which i did think this is falling apart. It was a bit peculiar, that point, wasnt it . The bee element was quite lovely with the little boy at the beginning, and then towards the end, you think, not sure where this is going the more it was kind of happening in the background, as a counterpoint to the main story, the better it worked. When it actually became part of the story, it was less successful. That said, i think its heart is in the right place, and i think it is at least striving to tell a story in an adventurous way. I would rather watch something try to do something and fail then just simply play it safe. I think some of the performances are not quite as great as they perhaps ought to be, i think thats partly due with actors wrestling with accents which are not their own. Yes, i agree. I kind of wanted to be. I wanted to be better but i think there are still things, and there are individual moments in it which i think, oh, they work really well. Individual moments of real electricity and spark, and kate dickies in it, and i love kate dickie in absolutely everything. She is fantastic. She is flinty in this for them. Very, very stern. She is aggressive and we dont mess with her. No, you dont. The lion king. Why . Why is it being remade . Explain. Well, i think the most obvious reason, live action disney remakes are making a tonne of money. They are doing really well. In the case of this, this is kind of billed as live action. It is not live action. It is animated. Everything youre saying on the screen is animation. The whole thing is done in a Virtual Reality environment in which the cameras are moving around in Virtual Reality but it is all completely computer generated. Its photorealist animation. And what this does is, you can create a photoreal version of an antelope or a lion, or a lion cub. The only thing is, they look like real animals but they are talking in singing, and i have a slight conceptual problem with this. If you see a cartoon talking and singing, it is fine because you understand. If you see the stage production of the lion king, your mind is filling some of the gaps. You cannot fault it technically. It is breathtaking. The environment is the best sort of realised environment on screen you can possibly imagine, but it is. Its like a David Attenborough documentary, and theyre all singing. Its just weird i am personally a great fan of old, traditional animation. I never watched an old animated film and thought, i wish it was more real. This is something very new and it is kind of ground breaking. This is real cutting edge stuff, and its made byjon favreau, who made jungle book, which did have a human character. It is very strange. I am not entirely convinced by it. People might think they would only like if theyre obsessed with cinema i dont know anyone like that this is varda by agnes. Its agnes vardas final film, looking at her life, her extraordinary career. Shes talking sometimes to an audience, sometimes shes talking to the camera, and so we get clips from her films. We get encounters of people who remember working with her, and how tough she was. When you see the film, what comes across as her generosity of spirit, her enthusiasm forfilm, her enthusiasm for the medium and also her great love of beaches. And she says this thing about a beach is the opposite of a wall, which is a phrase which wins me over. Heres a clip. Its so enchanting, and i did not actually expect to be enchanted, but theres something really. Did you think it was going to be hard work and sort of. . I thought you would have to be really, super knowledgeable about her work to get some thing out of it, and you dont have to, because i am not. And yet, she is delightful to listen to. It shows you just as much as you need of the clips to make you think, i want to see that film particularly the Robert De Niro film. She said, its so great i got Robert De Niro. The film flopped, doesnt matter i got Robert De Niro for a day she says this thing about all film making comes down to three things, and its inspiration, creation and then sharing. Inspiration is where the film comes from, creations how you make it and sharing is showing it to the audience. I love the fact she loves cinema, she loves the audience engaging with the cinema. She does these artworks, installations did, herfinalfilm you get a portion of somebody, her enthusiasm, her intelligence, her empathy. I thought the film was great fun. Theres many laughs in it. Its really funny and playful and witty. I thought it was really, really charming. An absolute delight. Best out this week . I really, really love only you, which is the debut feautre by harry wootliff. I think she has done a greatjob of telling this story. About a relationship between two people, a slightly younger man, a slightly older woman. The woman thinks that their relationship is going to be unbalanced, out of sync, but he is the one who thinks, i think we should start a family. About what happens when something which is an idea turns into a demand. Brilliant. I love the performances. Fantastic, yes. It feels so intimate and so honest i absolutely believed in the characters you loved it, too, right . Not quite as much is you, and we dont have time to explain why, but the performances were fantastic. Fantastic. Captain marvel. Ive watched it this will surprise you. Captain marvel, i did. I married someone who loves superhero movies. What was their verdict on it . She loved it. I loved it for about two thirds of it and then went, oh, is it still on . It felt a little bit long. When it came out, a lot of people saying, it cannot work, it has not enough blokes in it. And how dare they and of course, its been a runaway success. The reason ive chosen it on dvd is, i want to see it again. In cinema, i thought it was fine. I felt the same thing as you. Two thirds of the way. But i want to see it again because its been such a runaway hit. I think theres stuff in there that i probably missed first time around. Brie larson was good. Brie larson is great i think brie larson is really good, and i think shes got a great sense of humour as well. Thank you very much. See you again soon. That is it for this week. See you next time. Bye bye. The many schoolchildren it is the first week of School Holidays and all eyes on the temperature the next few days because things are turning hot and few days because things are turning hotand humid. Few days because things are turning hot and humid. A few days because things are turning hotand humid. A bit of few days because things are turning hot and humid. A bit of rain around particularly in the north west. Later, some thundery downpours with all that heat and humidity. Weve got High Pressure anchored out towards the east because the area is rotating around, this hotair around Continental Europe and in paris, temperatures possibly of 42, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the french capital. We got this cloud streaming in from the atlantic. Some outbreaks of rain earlier on across parts of Northern Ireland and across parts of northern england. Quite windy in the north. Further south, it stays mostly dry but fairly cloudy through tonight. Monday morning, murky first thing but mild from the world go. Not quite as muggy and humid as it will be overnight. Starting monday, the rain will clearfairly be overnight. Starting monday, the rain will clear fairly quickly but will sit across the western half of scotland. Bringing some localised flooding but for the rest of the uk, the sunshine breaks during the afternoon. A bit less breezy than it was. Temperatures 28 or 29 and the warmest spots. For Northern Ireland and scotland, 22 25 celsius. By the time we get to tuesday, we will have lost that rain. Lots of sunshine, gentle southerly breeze. All that hotair, we are likely to see the temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Its not just hot temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Its notjust hot by david overnight as well, if you are heading to bed about ten oclock, look at these temperatures. Not far off 30 celsius. You may also notice a few heavy showers, particularly a few more later in the week. Temperatures will continue to rise by the time we get to thursday. These thunderstorms are fairly hard to pinpoint so over the next few days, keep your eye on the next few days, keep your eye on the forecast. Hello, everyone, and welcome. This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon in singapore. The headlines more violent clashes in Hong Kong Police fire tear gas at protesters during another huge pro democracy rally. Riot police have come in to clear people out of this area. And this is now whats happening every weekend in hong kong. Iran hoists its flag on the masthead of the captured uk tanker despite calls to defuse tensions. Hello. Im ben bland in london. Also in the programme shinzo abe looks to have wonjapans upper house election,
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