Because even watching the trailer, i felt very tense. The trailer sells it as a horror movie, and it is. In inverted commas. Daniel kaluuya is this keen eyed photographer, to her rich parents house for the weekend, and he says, they do know im black, right . And she said, why would they need to know, they are incredibly liberal people. If he had the chance. And when they arrive at the mansion like house, that is pretty much the first thing he says. I would have voted for obama for a third time. Frankly, rather creepy. Heres a clip. How long has this been going on, this thing . How long . Four months. Faurmm five months, actually. Shes right, im wrong. Atta boy, better get Usedtarsaugng Thau please. Shes right, im wrong. I wanna give you a tour do you want to unpack first . Seems robotic almost. The friends turn up and they are not just attentive, its almost as if they are treating the guest as some kind of trophy. We then move into something that ira levin. Theawriter |, of Stepford Wives and rosemarys baby would have recognised. The really clever thing about the film is, it manages the shift between being just about credible and going into something rather different very, very gradually. At its at its best, i think, when all the horror remains hidden. The way to think of it is as something that starts out as a modern version of guess whos coming to dinner and then it drifts towards Red State Ollileenmom via to sleep with anger. There is humour all the way through, and there are really dark laughs in it. The satire is really sort of piercing, and then when it needs i thought it was a really effective piece of work. I saw it with a full Screening Room of people who were jumping, shrieking and laughing when they were meant to. Its a really. Really smartsotialf overall, is it a satire about race . Not overt racism, obviously. Weirdly, it is about the underlying racism of the liberal elite, to some extent. Its not a film in which rednecks are the bad guys. The liberals, who appear to be incredibly egalitarian, but there is something really sinister beneath the surface. I dont want to give anything away. As you say, the trailer is a real teaser and will get a lot of people going to see it. They wont be disappointed. Really intriguing. The salesman, this won the best Foreign Language oscar. It did. Asghar fahadi, the director, wasnt at the acadamy awards, he was boycotting them as a result of Donald Trumps travel ban. He won before for the salesman. This isnt quite on a par with the salesman. I think this is still a very fine piece of work. Husband and wife, pa rt time actors, putting on the play shes attacked in their new apartment and his thoughts turned to vengeance. The real life Relationship Spills Onto the stage. Some people have complained the film is too schematic, that the bridge between the play and real life is too contrived. I disagree. I thought it slipped from Social Observation Into Psychological Thriller almost unnoticed. The performances are terrific. I think it is a really humane work and you can absolutely believe in the characters and their situations. I think its a film that blends the personal and the political rather beautifully. Its strangely mysterious and rather heartbreaking. Having heard a few lukewarm reviews, i was very, very impressed by it. He won before for a separation. This is not as good as a separation. That is in a league of its own and its not as good as that, but that is a very high water mark. It is a smart, intelligent, melancholic, insightful drama about people you can really believe in. You mentioned good performances in that. That seems to be the overriding theme of your third film of the week. Personal shopper. Kristin stewart is absolutely brilliant in Olivier Assayass film. It juxtaposes the spiritual and material world. It is literally a search for the afterlife and a search for a nice pair of shoes. So she spends her life going round choosing her wardrobe. However, she is also bereaved, having lost a brother, and shes trying to make contact with her brother because she was a medium. Heres a clip. Youre staying here to mourn . Im waiting. I told you i was waiting. What are you waiting for . We made this oath. Whoever died first would send the other a sign. Asign. From the afterlife . You could call it that, you could call it a million things. How do you know if it is a sign . Im a medium. He was a medium. Illjust know it. So, its a really intriguing set up. At the beginning, it looks like being a really creepy ghost story, has her Walking Around the house, attempting to contact her brother. Then, she starts getting text messages, and its almost brother, another spirit, a real life stalker, they are somehow subconscious. The texts are asking, what are you afraid of and ashamed of . The phone almost becomes a confidante. As the film slips between the genres, as far as the supernatural stuff is concerned, it starts to be less sure footed and drifts into territory that eaala a; feffiefffifiliefie ,, the reason that holds it together is because of her performance. She is in almost every shot, and its a really sort of raw performance. She is brilliant, someone who is trying out different identities in the way she tries out different clothes. Somebody caught between this world and the next. I was really impressed with it. For all the flaws of the film, and there are many, she is so good that she just carries it through, and i was mesmerised by her. As i said, i have been a huge fan of hers for a while. I loved the twilight movies, but in this, she is really fine and it silences all the critics. This is a properly brilliant performance. So it is worth seeing it for her . The film is fine, interesting and adventurous, but it is flawed, but i would rather something aimed of the mark than just settled for something. This isnt something that youve seen every day. 0k. We always like to talk about film of the week. You and i could still be talking about moonlight, and its still on, because it won the best picture oscar. It is great, go and see it. We should perhaps pick out something else. There is another choice, this anime Called A Silent Voice released hot on the heels of your name. It is a schoolyard Drama Dealing with serious subjects, bullying, isolation, loneliness, self harm, suicidal thoughts, disability, in a way that is uplifting. And deeply sympathetic. A beautiful score, the animation is really well done, and it is one of those films that is all about learning to look the world in the eye, about learning to apologise for your mistakes. It is a film with a lot of crying in it, and i dont just mean on screen. I thought it was very touching, very impressive, and done with honesty. Good. Moonlight is still the best film we are taking that as a given. Dvd of the week is, and anyone who follows me on twitter knows that i detested nocturnal animals. I really struggled with it. Looked clever visually. And a lot of people have said that. I do, too. I have to say, i dont think it is, but i understand that point of view. Its stories within stories. There is an la art dealer who receives a manuscript from her ex husband, which is a violent story which seems to have parallels with their life together, and the way in which one reads that Story Within A story, the fiction within a fiction, affects the reading of the film. I know that a lot of people really dont like it, and i utterly respect that they dont. I have to say that i dont think that it is offensive in the way that some people do, but it is worth flagging up the fact that there are some people who have seen it and thought, in its defence, on the violence issue, there is very little that you see. I mean, i think that one of the reasons it is powerful is because its ideas are powerful, and unpleasa ntly powerful. Youre right, you dont actually see that much. But its so powerfully conveyed that its deeply unsettling. And that may account for the fact that it is only a 15 as well. It would be less unsettling if it was not as well made and you could just switch off. It is a 15 because there is very little actually displayed, but you think it is worse because it is tense. I absolutely understand your reservations, i just dont share them. Fair enough. Thank you very much. Before we go, you will find all ourfilm news and reviews on the website. And all our previous programmes are there, and on the iplayer, of course. That is it for this week. Enjoy your cinema going. Bye bye. Good evening. Quite a bit of rain and cloud spreading its way from the We St And Cloud Spreading its way from the west overnight tonight. That is thanks to a couple of Weather Systems coming in from the atlantic. A squeeze on the isobars on the northern west of the uk turning quite here. Gusts getting to about 50 mph, six demise per hour on the western side of scotland. And if errol breeze with this rain over the southern half of the uk. At least with increasing cloud, it will keep temperatures up most places. Ioii degrees in some parts of uk for the morning. But it will the colder and windy on monday, with rain around, that italy quite wet through the morning. And windy, too, and the western side of scotland, gusts of about six mph, at least a time. Which is rain through pretty which is that rain through pretty quickly, and that it brightens art. What weather to be had in northern scotland. Northern is scotland. Northern england is whether it in morning. Take care on the roads because of Service Water and spray. Similar in wales and the south west. Behind the main area of rain, spells sunshine, but also showers. The rain has not got to the far south east just yet. Here, showers. The rain has not got to the Farsouth Eastjust yet. Here, it showers. The rain has not got to the far South Eastjust yet. Here, it is cloudy and quite windy, but relatively mild at about ten. Ii relatively mild at about ten or ii degrees. Going through the day, this area of wind and rain will make its way across east anglia and towards the south east. Some sunshine coming in behind it, but also showers. Wintry over Higher Ground in scotland. Relatively mild, i suppose, in the south eastern gt; irirrigir suppose, in the south eastern garner; 13 or 14 suppose, in the south eastern am 13 or 11; degrees suppose, in the south eastern am 13 or 11; degrees with f suppose, in the south eastern am 13 or 11; degrees with wind. Ii rain. The colder air rain. The wider air will] tailors . Or rain. The colder air will follow a man band of rain, and i think we will see the cold air getting in across all Parts On Monday Night into tuesday. And wintry showers getting down to lower levels as that cold air spreads its way ever eastwards. By tuesday, it will really be quite cold and showery across the united kingdom. And some of the showers on tuesday will be wintry. Cold and frosty start through the day on tuesday. Frost the really from Northern England northwards and to go with the frost, ice and snow hazards as well. Any north and west, heavy showers around on tuesday. Under, lightning, so getting down to lower level is quite readily. So will really only be over Higher Ground further south. Further east, sunshine. They cool started the day on wednesday. Cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Elsewhere, a chilly day. Chilly in the breeze, and a scattering of showers to be had. 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