how long, mike? since we all went to sorrento. 0h, bloody hell. that's nearly five years ago! i've had enough of all this hide and seek, mike. how could you do this to me? you're supposed to be my friend. we even took you to the palace. i didn't mean for this to happen, sandra. oh, really? you knew precisely what you were doing! now, please calm down, sandra. rememberwhere you are. i know exactly where i am, in my own bloody home! i have spent my entire married life putting you and your career first, and what got me through was knowing that when you retired we would share our golden years together. but instead, you've traded me in for a newer model. and let me tell you, mike. she's had more than one previous owner. and all her bodywork is mainly filler! you laughed at least twice! exactly, because it's funny. and her sister basically tells her, this life you have been leading is an artificial life and you have to learn to enjoy things more. she teaches her to go swimming in the hampstead pond and dance lessons, where she meets characters likejoanna lumley and a character called charlie played by tim spall. you know from the outset that that character is going to soften and discover more to life than material possessions and this ridiculous dream of her husband's retirement. you know from the outset when she meets timothy spall and she finds him abrasive and difficult, she will warm to him. and you know from the outset amongst the comedy, there will be tragedy and tears amongst laughs. the question is, how well this all plays out? i have to say rather better than i expected. it was charming and funny, not least because it's a great cast. they are all throwing themselves into it and having a very good time. it is well directed. no cliche goes unturned. funnily enough, it owes a certain structural debt to nativity, the debbie isitt film, and in fact, funnily enough, it would've made more sense to release this in the run—up to christmas because there is slight christmas theme to it so it is odd that it's coming out now. despite your reservations about the poster, which i understand, i thought it was funny, charming, i liked the performances. and my heart went with it enough that when my head kept going, hang on, my heart went, just let it be, and i did and i enjoyed it. all right. 0k. you have seen i, tonya as well. it's a good watch. margot robbie stars and also produces. tonya harding, implicated in an attack and her career fell apart. robbie's been nominated for awards. the film takes the structure of telling contradictory stories. at the beginning, it says, "based on the totally true and utterly contradictory testimonies of its central characters" and during the narrative, we see of the central characters talking to the audience, either through faux interviews or breaking the fourth wall, turning to the audience and going, "this didn't happen." but essentially it is a story of somebody who has come through and abusive background. she is beaten by her husband. she is also attacked by her mother although the mother who is allisonjanney, says for heaven's sake, show me a family that don't have their ups and downs. it manages to balance, in my opinion, the serious subject matter of domestic abuse, which it is about, with also being a film playing with post modern conventions in a way that reminded me of the film 2a—hour party people in which characters will turn up and go, "this didn't happen." it's a film about a story being told from lots of different perspectives with a brilliant central performance. i found it hugely watchable, i'm not going to lie, and the story is fascinating. it was that thing of turning to camera and being veryjokey about something precisely at the moment when they are talking about domestic abuse and he hasjust punched her. she marries the first man who comes along and he beats her up for years. unfortunately, that is not a subject for comedy. her mother says to her at one point, "you think you deserve to be beaten," and she said, "i would never be with a man who beat me," and she says, "you beat up our dad," and she says that's different. there is a scene when tonya harding has a shotgun and she says, "this absolutely never happened." the triumph is it deals with the serious issues while also being entertaining and funny and sharp. essentially it gives you a kaleidoscopic portrait and saying, you decide. everyone watching it would come out with the same opinion that she is a survivor. whatever else you think, she is a survivor. absolutely, and allison janney is a genius. that is the other thing you come out saying. she just eats that role for breakfast. she is just fantastic. the shape of water. wonderful. dark river. i'm jumping ahead, sorry. easily confused. dark river. it deals with abuse and in different way. ruth wilson plays a character who returns to the tenant farm on which she grew up. she's been away 15 years, her abusive father has died and she comes back to the farm, which she feels she has a right to take on the tenancy. her brother, however, is there and disagrees. here's a clip. i'm here now. what good is that? really, i mean it's too late now, isn't it? he's gone. i've been driving all night... where's she gone? i've got to get my head down. i can't do this now. 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. this takes its title from a ted hughes poem. it 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, and like the levelling, it has the idea 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 very complicated situation apart. i saw it twice, first on a small screen, 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. 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. 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, which, i think pan's labyrinth is the best film of the 21st century so far. 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. superb performance by sally hawkins, doug jones 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 doug jones' 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. again, 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 it's also grounded in a strange reality. and 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 sort of political backdrop, a group of people together where this political thing is happening and they all have secrets that suddenly get revealed. what i love about it, sally potter film, it's 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 again, 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 before we go, you will find all 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. there's been an awful lot of talk about this cold wintry weather on the cards. and that is certainly going to be the story as we head through much of this week. temperatures really are going to be plummeting over the next few days and we are set to see some pretty disruptive snowfall on the way combined with bitter easterly called winds, frost, ice. a little bit of wintry sunshine on offer as nobody temperatures are going to be so low because we are drying in the winds from the east rate from siberia, northern russia across the uk. across the rest of the night, cloudy with a few snow flurries around here. could see a centimetre or two accumulated by monday morning. it is going to be subzero wherever you are to start the day. a sharp frost. watch out for some icing is around. through monday morning, it is cold and frosty but most start the day right, just a few snow showers around. some of those scattered showers will drift away further west through the day, so it could be the odd seamus power —— snow shower. temperatures just getting above freezing but feeling subzero and you add on that wind—chill. with the easterly wind committee will fuel more like minus five celsius. a cold day and then through monday evening and overnight into tuesday, heavier, more persistent snow showers work their way into eastern areas. a very cold start to tuesday morning and during tuesday as that's no —— those snow showers fall, there could be disruption. in fact, we've got an amberwarning. disruption. in fact, we've got an amber warning. some of those showers will make their way further west, through wales and it will feel cold. temperatures just about getting above freezing, feeling millie clode with the wind—chill. through the course of tuesday evening and overnight into wednesday, we've still got that bitterly cold wind bringing in further snow showers. wednesday, again, another day of some heavy snow. deeply for north east england in eastern scotland on wednesday. but wherever you are, temperatures are going to struggle to get above freezing all day and feeling colder than that. if we look ata feeling colder than that. if we look at a few of the relations of snow, we could well see around 10—20 cm of snow, particularly towards the east. and then it looks like later in the week, the next area of low pressure moves in from the south as it bumps into that cold air in place that could well see a smell a particularly heavy and widespread snow through thursday and into friday. do keep tuned to your latest forecast. this is news today on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines. smiles at the closing ceremony — but a reported offer of talks from north korea is pushed back by washington. it comes as the winter olympics — which mixed sport and politics right from the start — draws to a spectacular close. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: two murders as tensions rise at a rohingya camp in bangladesh. we have a special report. the complaints are growing in number. a fight between neighbours overfood number. a fight between neighbours over food and shelter, enter camp rivalries over a that's arriving almost daily. could he rule for life? china's xi jinping might continue as president indefinitely — under changes proposed by the communist party.

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