Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in the home. From eliza hittman, writer director of the brilliant beach rats, comes another drama that manages to combine the gritty authenticity of a documentary with the poetic sensibility of pure cinema. That looks like a positive. If its positive, is there any way it could be negative . No. A positive is always a positive. In Never Rarely Sometimes Always, hittman investigates an urgent contemporary issue but does so through a coming of age story that presents a perfectly observed portrayal of female friendship. Sidney flanigan is autumn, a 17 year old from pennsylvania who discovers that she cant get an abortion in her hometown without parental consent. Quietly desperate, she travels to new york with her cousin, played by talia ryder, where these young women find themselves effectively living on the streets while waiting for the procedure that autumn was denied in pennsylvania. Wheres the rest of the money . The title, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, comes from the multiple choice answers to a series of questions that autumn is asked for the procedure questions about her health, her history, and most importantly, her safety. Touching upon subjects of coercion and abuse, these questions and responses they elicit which include significant silences speak volumes, not only about autumns experiences but also about those of the many women who, for whatever reason, find themselves in a similar situation. Dont you everjust wish you were a dude . All the time. With reproductive rights currently under attack in the us, hittmans film, which includes scenes of anti abortion protesters, strikes a particularly timely note. But it never wears its politics on its sleeve, focusing instead on the day to day reality of these young womens lives and the growing bond between them. Hittman describes her film as first and foremost, a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and urgent and the loneliness of it all. Unobtrusively lensed by Helene Louvart and combining the melancholy realism of midnight cowboy with the humanist art of the dardennes, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a remarkable film from an Outstanding Film maker honest, truthful and powerful. Its available from wednesday. Today, you will do your first word in the whistling language. Which is . Mama he whistles but first, you will do it separately. Ma ma. He whistles not mamu. Mama romanian director corneliu porumboiu, best known for films like 2009s police, adjective, displays a playful attitude to genre in the whistlers, a twisty crime thriller with a colourfully noirish tinge. Vlad ivanov is cristi, the corrupt bucharest cop whos knee deep in the Money Laundering scandal hes meant to be investigating. His equally corrupt superiors are onto him and he knows it, right down to the location of the surveillance cameras theyve placed in his apartment. Catrinel marlon is the femme fatale who also knows more than she lets on. In fact, all the characters in this enjoyably Double Crossing drama have secrets, many of which can only be spoken in the whistling language which cristi must learn on the island of la gomera a secret code that the cops cant crack. Flipping back and forth in time, with multiple chaptered viewpoints, the whistlers is a rip roaring ride in which everyones playing a role and no one is to be trusted. I enjoyed the heck out of it and you can find it on curzon home cinema, where you can also find porumboius previous film, the 2018 documentary oddity infinite football. Sticking with documentaries, camino skies follows six modern pilgrims from new zealand and australia as they walk the historic 800 km trail that leads to the cathedral of Santiago De Compostela in northwestern spain. Im going to die. Im going to die in the ditch. Each of the walkers is facing their own personal challenges, whether its the rigours of age and failing physical ability or the spectres of grief and loss which haunt so many travellers on this trail. Its hardly Ground Breaking fare, but youd have to be pretty hard hearted not to be moved by these stories of hope in the face of adversity, sensitively gathered by the film makers. You can walk alongside these pilgrims, albeit vicariously, on curzon home cinema. From uplifting truth to grisly fiction, the wretched is a horror film whose title invites critical scorn but which actually delivers a neat mix of character development, narrative tension and selectively deployed monstrous effects. The plot centres around a tree dwelling witch that not only devours their victims but also makes everyone forget they ever existed, a neat narrative device. John paul howard is ben, the sullen teenager who resents his fathers new girlfriend and has little enthusiasm for his summerjob at a marina. But when the neighbours start acting weird to the terror of their young child ben becomes convinced that something wicked this way comes. Nodding its head to a diverse range of sources, from rear window to fright night, via the woodland iconography of the blair witch project, the wretched is an effective genre exercise from the pierce brothers, who made the anarchic zombie flick deadheads and who here conjure up some eerily atmospheric chills and a few skin crawling transformations. Youre a very stupid boy. You think i dont know what people see . Gawking at me, their eyes are like pin balls. Look anywhere but at the gork thats whats in their minds. But out of their mouths, were special needs. One must be pc after all. At the opposite end of the spectrum, more beautiful for having been broken is a very personal passion project from writer director nicole conn. Cale ferrin is terrific as freddie, the precocious young boy with a rare genetic condition whose mother becomes unexpectedly involved with an fbi agent, on the run from the ghosts of her past. A strange blend of televisual intrigue, romantic drama and unexpectedly adventurous dance, conns film suffers somewhat from a superfluity of contrived backstory plot which threatens to get in the way of the characters, the most interesting element. But its hard to fault the sincerity of the film making, which clearly mixes personal experience with dramatic invention. Poorjojo. Whats wrong, little man . Hi, adolf. Want to tell me about that rabbit incident . What was all that about . They wanted me to kill it. Im sorry. I couldnt. Dont worry about it. I couldnt care less. But now they call me a scared rabbit. Let them say whatever they want. People used to say a lot of nasty things about me. Oh, this guys a lunatic oh, look at that psycho hes going to get us all killed ill leave you with news that jojo rabbit, for which Taika Waititi won a best adapted screenplay oscar, is coming to dvd. We need somebody to walk the clones. Following in a great tradition of films like chaplins the great dictator and roberto benignis life is beautiful, this uses comedy to address and deflate the horrors of nazism, with waititi playing a slapstick version of hitler, the imaginary best friend of a young boy growing up under the third reich. Despite the potentially incendiary premise, i found jojo rabbit to be rather bland neither sharp norfunny enough to cut to the heart of its controversial subject. Many others disagree, and the film has provoked heated debate since first opening in cinemas. You can make up your own mind about it on dvd from monday. Thats it. Thank for watching the film review. Stay safe and ill be back next week with more home viewing treats. You arent eating. No, i am not that hungry. I might eat later. For now, im just going to chew on these grapes. Hello. There are lots of weather changes on the way as we go through the rest of this weekend. Still some warmth in the day ahead, but it will be turning colder in northern scotland and much colder elsewhere across the uk by sunday. And windier as well. Now, whats going on . Cold air lurking close to northern scotland saturday night into sunday will surge south. Not a huge amount of rain at least towards england and wales, and with that cold air, a stronger wind coming down from the north or north east as well. We start saturday with temperatures well above freezing, a lot of dry weather around, but in that colder air we have a weather system near to northern scotland and that will bring the rain heavier and more widespread across northern scotland during the day with a strengthening wind. Elsewhere in scotland and Northern Ireland, sunny spells, one oi two showers. We could see a few heavy and thundery showers developing through parts of wales, northern england, the midlands and lincolnshire into the afternoon. Across east anglia and southern england, largely sunny, temperatures could be as high as 25 degrees celsius, just 9 or 10 degrees in northern scotland with the rain. Now, we know the cold air is going to win out through the weekend. This is the process overnight and into sunday morning. By the way, channel islands, maybe close to the south coast of england, there could be a few heavy showers. But its wet weather coming south through scotland and Northern Ireland with the colder air going into sunday morning. Look how mild it is, though, to start sunday in the south, where therell still be some early sunshine around. Now, there could be some snow following the cold air in scotland to start off on sunday, a few wintry showers around as well. Cloud, not a huge amount of rain left as the weather system works south across england and wales, introducing the colder air on sunday. And for all, it is going to be much windier as well. Strong, gusty north northeast winds, 35 45 mph or so, at their strongest along these north sea coasts. Just seven, eight, nine degrees celsius, temperatures 10 15 degrees colder by sunday compared with saturday. And then on monday morning, a frost for many of us to start the day, so gardeners and growers, take note of that. Now, it is High Pressure close by into next week. That does mean a lot of dry weather, but still the air coming down from a chilly direction. And the wind is going to gradually ease as the week goes on. So, for next week, High Pressure, a lot of dry weather, frosty night at first, the wind easing. Becomes a little bit less chilly eventually. This is bbc news welcome if youre watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. Im lewis vaughanjones our top stories marking the 75th anniversary of victory in europe. The queen leads tributes to past sacrifices as the uk remains under lockdown. Many people laid down their lives in that terrible conflict. They fought so we could live in peace, at home and abroad. On a day that should have been filled with parades and street parties Prince Charles holds a moving tribute at his familys balmoral estate. The uk government is expected to impose a two week quarantine on almost everyone entering the uk from the end of the month