she broke her leg. she needs culling. well, i'm not giving it mine. well, you'd better get up there, hadn't you? i haven't seen you for 15 years. i'll wait with her. now, i am a huge fan of clio barnard, it takes its title from a ted hughes poem and has a surface similarity to the levelling, and yet it is absolutely barnard's film. it's about the way that trauma affects people's memories, about the way trauma affects people's perceptions and it's about people living with the ghost of an abusive past. it's very powerful not least because the performances are very good which is something you expect from clio barnard and also because it is a film located very much in the landscape, like the levelling, it has the feeling of buried family secrets coming up from the ground. it is very atmospheric. although the subject matter is very dark, the tone 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 this complicated situation apart. i saw it twice, first on a small screen a second time projected and i have to say 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 you want to wait until it comes out on dvd, you want to see it in the cinema, it is a cinematic experience and she is 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 can't wait and i love the levelling and god's own country. there is a whole theme going on. the message seems to be not to be a farmer can because it will be really tough. the shape of water. this is my favourite film in the cinema at the moment. i love this film, it's guillermo del toro's best film since pan's labyrinth, and i think pan's 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 shouldn't work, and yet it does. there is something magical about it. super performance by sally hawkins, doug jones is brilliant as the creature, and the thing guillermo del toro always does is he has this great love of what other people think of as monsters. the real monster in this film isn't the amphibious man, it's a very human character, it's set against the backdrop of cold war paranoia and the space race, there are moments when it bursts into song and there is a song and dance routine suddenly in the middle of this. 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 i love this film to pieces. and to look at as well, it is stunning. you should see it on a big screen because it is such a treat visually. how amazing that you could take a story that is apparently so bizarre and strange, and yet give it such mainstream appeal. it is a film that will work for pretty much everyone because it's a fairy tale but also grounded in a strange reality. sally hawkins‘s performance is wonderful. terrific. curious but fabulous. i will accept that. i liked your choice of dvd. the party. it's the party from hell, it has a political backdrop, a group of people together where this political thing is happening and they have secrets that suddenly get revealed. what i love about it, it is a sally potter film, black and white, stripped to the bone, it is 71 minutes long, there isn't an ounce of fat on it, but it is sharp, the dialogue is very acerbic. timothy spall who is in finding your feet and is terrific in almost everything. it has a real brittle humour to it. i thought at the beginning i would find it a bit insular and claustrophobic because it's pretty much in one location. but it really made me laugh. i thought it found its darkly comic tone. yes, it is a good watch. it's like a play for today. and so brief, literally, a five—star running time. thank you, mark. it is a cracking week. a reminder that before we go, you will find the film news and reviews on the bbc website and all of our previous programmes are on the iplayer of course. it's a great week. enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye. good evening. this cold snap has been well forecast for something so it will not come as too much of a surprise to hear we have wintry weather on the cards. is disruptive heavy snow for the weekend, with bitter winds, frost and ice and some sunshine as well. colder air coming in from siberia and northern russia. monday, western parts of the uk will have sunshine, but will be cold. east of england and eastern scotland will have snow showers. first thing, we already have the snow showers, with frost and icy conditions. monday morning, most of the snow showers will be fairly well scattered across parts of eastern england and eastern scotland, with many places staying dry, particularly towards the west. temperatures perhaps a few degrees above freezing for many of us, but when you add the wind—chill, the easterly wind makes it feel more like minus five degrees. a cold day on monday. we will see snow showers in the east,... it will be bitterly cold at the beginning of tuesday morning, with an amber warning. east midlands down to essex, london and kent, some destructive snowfall, likely to cause disruption throughout the day on tuesday, with school closures and temperatures not getting above freezing. we will see further snow showers filtering on this risk wind, for tuesday night into wednesday. further heavy accumulating snow, on wednesday, and will be very cold when you add on the wind—chill. some places could see ten to 20 centimetres of snow, even more accumulating over the higher ground. snow is likely to cause disruption over the next few days, with blizzard conditions over the south later in the week. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. labour shift their policy on europe. the shadow brexit secretary says the party would now keep written in a customs union. obviously it's the only way realistically to get tariff—free access, it's really important for our manufacturing base, and nobody can answer the question how you keep your commitment to no hard border in northern ireland without a customs union. syrian jets continue to pound eastern ghouta despite a un—agreed ceasefire. the west asks russia to put pressure on damascus. china's president xijinping could serve indefinitely, under changes to the constitution put forward by the ruling communist party. also this hour: a k—pop extravaganza brings the winter olympics in pyeongchang to an end. there was show of unity between north and south korea at the closing ceremony, and the north says it will meet the us for talks.

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