Of death. What the hell is this place . Ive taken enough voters of mass graves to recognise one. The this place is a real no no. We need to go to the north side. You are welcome to do that alone. I think it is smarter than people think. The director made a small film called kings of summer, wonderful indie fulham film. What he has managed to do is leave his fingerprints on it. So although is a huge franchise film, its got lows of jokes huge franchise film, its got lows ofjokes in it. I think there are even ofjokes in it. I think there are eve n refe re nces to ofjokes in it. I think there are even references to various cult horror forms. Even references to various cult horrorforms. He even references to various cult horror forms. He takes just ten of liberties with how far you can push the characters, but also remembers that people are there to see the monsters. Whats most rewarding is when you see kong, what we are not getting is that it every quarter second. There is genuine but in some showers. There is genuine beauty in some showers. What he has managed to do would and you always get a battle between the director and what the producers want, and its always who winds what. I think as one of more than he has lost. I enjoyed it. I like the soundtrack and the movies it references. I did not get bored. I dont think you have to check your rain before you watch it. Your regime. Imagine all that heaven allows as director byjess franco. It has the early 70s look about it. Its about a white which under whose spell all men are for. Its a bit like one of kenneth angers inca ntations. Its a bit like one of kenneth angers incantations. A lot of attention to detail and makes reference to everyone from hitchcock to dario argento. It is quite like an oddly sincere film, and its also subversive. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was going to be a parody oi thought it was going to be a parody ora thought it was going to be a parody or a pastiche. But it was so much more. Ive met some of the people who thought the same thing, they thought it would be a bit camp or kitsch and it is much more than that. Though it is all of those things as well. Just looking at the poster, im Thinking Isjust not camp enough. Kitsch is the word, isnt it . Theres also a strange sincerity underlying giver makes in just pastiche. Its a strange movie andi just pastiche. Its a strange movie and i light it very much. Now the Talking Point of the week is elle. And as a woman, i feel almost anxious about seeing it. It can be read in many ways and them contradictory. On the one hand, it isa contradictory. On the one hand, it is a boundary crossing tale of sexual violence. On the other, it is a showcase for Isabel Huppert, who is sin ares most fearlessly independent screen presence. She is utterly magnetic in aberdeen. She plays the Title Character is a businesswoman who was attacked at the start of the film and then almost does not seem to respond. She will go to the police, not least because as a child, she was caught up because as a child, she was caught up in the arrest of her monstrous father and was in her mind betrayed by the police. She is so watchable, but i dont know if i have the stomach for it. If you very violent . On the ballot is almost as if she becomes the author of the film. On the one hand, is being described as a Black Comedy Oi is being described as a black comedy or even a social satire or even a rate revenge movie, but it is all in all of these things. Whats extraordinary is that nobody else other than huppert could have done it. It was originally going to be made in hollywood, but he could not get the cast or the financing. As you know, huppert went on to be nominated for an oscar and shes brilliant in this and almost everything she is in. I can remember a role in which she has not been great. If it wasnt for her performance and the extraordinary way in which she just dominates the screen, this will be a different film. It is absolutely a film designed to wrong foot you and make you feel uncomfortable and awkward. It has been interesting scene are many ways in which critics have responded to it, almost trying to describe it and i think the best way is is it is an Isabel Huppert form. Film. Moonlight is back in cinemas as a result of the oscar and it is wonderful, such a marvellous work and an absolute work of art and i love it to pieces. Doctor strange, we have a and it shows what you can do with a soupy burro superhero movie. There are moments when you are watching it when you think, that is an outtake from altered states. I love ken russell and love his work, but what is interesting is seeing incentive as. Thank you. All our previous programmes are on the i play. Goodbye. For much of her career, Lionel Shriver scribbled in obscurity. Then her seventh novel hit the big time. We need to talk about kevin won the Orange Prize For Fiction We Need To Talk About Kevin won the orange prize forfiction in her latest book is called the mandibles and is set in a financial crisis in the states in the near future. Its about a wealthy family who must deal with the loss of their wealth and learn to survive as the Duller Colla Pses learn to survive as the duller collapses and inflation soars. You wrote this novel in 2015 and the picture you paint of america is pretty bleak. Revisiting it now as it comes out in paperback, what are your thoughts . Bred well, it comes out in paperback, what are yourthoughts . Bred well, it it comes out in paperback, what are your thoughts . Bred well, it is bleaker now. One of the striking things about revisiting this book after the release in hardback is obviously that we now have a new president and not the president we expected. There is a feeling of not quite being overtaken by events, because what happens in the books has not happened yet, we havent yet faced economic collapse, quite the contrary in fact, the stock market is going through the roof, though im not convinced it will stay like that, but certainly interests and dystopias has picked up enormously. I think the entire landscape of reality has changed, if thats not being a little overdramatic in that what we consider possible has changed. Donald trump was initially not going to get elected and the idea of his being president was farcical and now look at him. Similar with brexit. Is a Dystopian Novel Set in 2029, but this isnt a future of lizards running down fifth ave and zombies and flying cars, is a world in many ways thats very recognisable to others. All deliberate was that . Very deliberate. In fact i kept the technological innovation to a minimum. Idid technological innovation to a minimum. I did not want the readers to focus on gadgets. I try to keep the changes between now and then quite modest. I did insert things, there was a major cyber catastrophe in 2024, which i think its highly likely. But i wanted you to be able to walk into this book as if from the next room. Is see what happens to one particular family, the next room. Is see what happens to one particularfamily, the the next room. Is see what happens to one particular family, the title family, and what they take for granted and perhaps what many of us ta ke granted and perhaps what many of us take for granted is gradually eroded. The cabbage suddenly costs 20, you cant get hold of olive oil. By the end of the book a cabbage costs 40. I wanted to go on that nitty gritty household level. So theres more than one scene in this book that takes place in a supermarket. And it becomes a strangely political plays. Which it is, rather. Because it has to do with our primitive survival and what people regard as necessary to the primitive survival varies according to income level so that most middle to income level so that most middle to upper middle class people would consider having to live without olive oil and absolute outrage. One of the things people start hoarding and therefore becomes unavailable is toilet roll. This is a major crisis. Indeed, and what you examine in the book. You explore americas collapse through this one family and it is not the first in youve explored the big issues and what the family. Why do you do that . I think it is a good path into an issue and one of the things that happens when an Economy Brea Ks things that happens when an economy breaks down is that civil structures breaks down is that civil structures break down and relationships between people break down. As a nation, you can stop functioning, but as a city neighbourhood, you can stop functioning and as a family you can stop functioning. If you put enough stressors on people, and i do design the plot is so that everyone ends up in the same house, and they dont get along, right . So that is a festival for fiction. There is one character in this book who is a bestselling writer like yourself and has lived away from the United States for several decades and indeed her name is an anagram of line a lot. Why did you want to insert yourself into the novel . Partly for fun. I had written enough by then, i enjoyed a little self reference. Did you enjoy it