Very much. Rachel watson and liam thought. Have a great weekend. Thank you. And thank you for watching us here on bbc news. From myself and the team, cheerio. From myself and the team, cheerio. Hello, and welcome to the film review. Look whos here hes real its Mark Kermode really here in the studio, not an avatar it is fabulous to be back in the studio with you, jane. How lovely to see you again. So, we have a packed show coming up. So, weve got reviews of the collini case, which is a german crime thriller. We have respect, which is the biopic of Aretha Franklin, withJennifer Hudson. And we have herself, which is the new film by phyllida lloyd, which i think you and i have different opinions about. Chuckles to be discussed. We start with the collini case. Yes, so, german crime thriller, based on a Book By Ferdinand Von Schirach which i confess i have not read, although its apparently a very famous book. Story is a young lawyer is assigned to a case in which he has to defend a man, Fabricio Collini played by the great Franco Nero who is accused of murder. The case seems fairly hopeless, not least because shortly after the murder, Fabricio Collini presented himself, covered in blood, and now refuses to speak in his own defence. Heres a clip. Hmm. So it then transpires that the lawyer actually knew the victim. In fact, the victim was something of a mentor to him, took him under his wing, you know, almost fathered him. The question is why on earth would anybody want to kill this man, who was a respected industrialist and, as far as the lawyer knows was somebody who was a very good person . The author of The Book, his grandfather was a very high ranking nazi who was tried at nuremberg and one of the things The Book is about is coming to terms with, you know, the past and the ghosts of your own past and accepting the fact that people who seem like one thing may actually be something completely different, so a lot of the story is to do with confronting guilt. Its also a pretty good drama in terms of its a Courtroom Drama. Now, i love a Courtroom Drama, i do understand that Courtroom Dramas are full of things that never happen in real courtrooms, like people producing witnesses Out Of Nowhere that nobody� s heard of, people presenting Papers Ijust happen to have in my bag. I quite like a Courtroom Drama too, you see, so. But. Yeah, im a suckerfor it. I keep expecting somebody to slam the table and say, you cant handle the truth if you accept that the drama itself is fairly contrived and it does, you know, have all those conventions, then i think its very entertaining. But more importantly, it is about something very serious. It is about that thing of looking back into the past, looking back into a countrys guilty past and your own familys guilty past and asking questions about whether people are the people that they seem to be. So its doing quite a clever thing which is its a very entertaining Pot Boiler on one hand but also, its about something far more substantial. As i said, i havent read The Book, but i very much enjoyed the film. Its called the collini case, its in cinemas now. Ok, now, respect. I really want this to be good. Yes. Because Aretha Franklin what a figure, what a Life Story. An extraordinary Life Story. And so the good news is, shes played byJennifer Hudson, who is fantastic in the Lead Role i mean, ithink everybody expected this. Aretha franklin herself effectively appointed Jennifer Hudson. She had, you know she was very controlling on the Project Right up until her death in 2018, and she said toJennifer Hudson, youre the right person to do this so thats great. I mean, she can sing, she can act, she has charisma, she has presence and its a great performance. I think the problem is that the Film Itself isnt quite as exceptional as either its central performance or, indeed, as Aretha Franklin. Its a very sort of tumultuous Life Story and the film wants to play things fairly safe. So theres domestic abuse, there is alcoholism, there is theres a lot of stuff that is quite dark and the film acknowledges it. What it doesnt really know, then, is what to do with it. The musical set pieces are fantastic i mean, really fantastic and it goes from the 19505 In Detroit up to 1972 and the recording of, you know, her record breaking Gospel Album and actually, because thats a very glorious place to finish people will recently have seen amazing grace, the documentary about her doing that, which, you know, was delayed for so long, so i think its worth seeing it forJennifer Hudsons performance because shes terrific. Ijust i wanted the film to be more exceptional and an awful lot of The Rock biopics have got the same beats, theyve got the same story points. A lot of this seems familiar. But she carries it shoulder high and when shes on stage, when shes doing it, shes really great. And its notjust The Voice its the gestures, its the way she holds her head back, its the way she half closes her eyes. I mean, shes got the physical performance absolutely down pat, so thats great. The Film Itself, however, not as good as her performance. 0k, yes, a mixed bag. I mean, Jennifer Hudson is very talented, isnt she . And herself im well, im fascinated to know what you made of it. Ok, so i mentioned that i dont think that respect knows what to do with its themes of domestic abuse. So in the case of herself, this is an irish drama played at sundance in 2020 before everything happened and its co written by Clare Dunne who stars as sandra, who is a mother who has an abusive partner, she needs to get away from the abusive partner with her children to find a house. She cant find a house and then she sees, online, someone saying, look, its possible to build a house for a fairly small amount of money. This sounds ridiculous but then, a Family Friend says well, ill give you my back garden, effectively, to do it in, if you can make the house. Heres a clip. A house . Hmm. Our own house . Hmm. At the bottom of the garden . Like a fairy house. The only thing is, girls and this is really important, right . We cant tell anyone. Not anyone at school, not nanny, not granddad and especially, especially not daddy. Why . Im just going by What Ado The Builder said. I he said thats the rules i and youve seen him, right . You dont want to mess with him, do you . No. So we have to keep this to ourselves, yeah . Our own special secret. Like Black Widow . Sort of. Whats that . 0h, itsjust a code word. Its better you dont know. Yeah. So. No telling, 0k . Hmm. Pinkie promise . Both one. Two. Three. Pinkie promise 0h, girls. Oh, and thats a fantastic clip, ithink. Its beautiful . Because that summarises so much and reminds us how brilliant the three of them are when theyre on screen together. And you completely believe in them as a family. Yes, yes. And, so, its directed by phyllida lloyd, Mamma Mia , which was a huge smash hit, iron lady, which of course you know was oscar feted. This feels like a smaller project. But heres the interesting thing half the film is about the nightmare of domestic Abuse And Half of it is about the dream of building your own home which is, you know, almost a fairytale. In fact, at one point, they actually do refer to it as a fairytale home. And i think the thing that the drama does really well for me is that on the one hand, its got that stuff that you get from something like witness remember the Barn Building Scene in witness . Which everyone loves, its everyones favourite scene of Course Everyone loves watching a home being built and it uses that to tell a much darker story about the plight of a woman who is being failed by the system, who is looking everywhere for help and is not receiving it. And i think that what the drama manages to do is to tell that darker story, that more difficult story, but in a way that looks like its a heart warming, uplifting movie. I know that you were quite surprised by how tough some of it was. I felt for me, i felt it was more a film about the Domestic Violence than the House Building even though there are some quite joyous scenes with the House Building and the way her neighbours come to help and all that sort of thing. Just that i thought it was a clever undercurrent but a real a Real Knot in your stomach constantly because you are constantly worried about the abusive man who you know is still out there. So heres the fascinating thing. If you actually look at the amount of screen time that you see, you know, its flashbacks, its fairly little and theyre fairly discreet. Yes but this its like a kind of a tension in your gut all the way through because theyre interspersed as flashbacks and you feel that they are the background to everything. I think thats whats clever about the film. I think that what the film is doing is kind of, you know, its sugar coating the pill by making it apparently about putting a house together. And theres all this stuff will it happen . Will it work . All that stuff but underneath its about something more serious. And i think if youre going to make a film about this kind of story, the challenge is to make it acceptable. To make it yeah will i enjoy watching it . Well, yes, there is plenty to enjoy in herself. There is also plenty to be alarmed by, but i think thats a pretty good balancing act. Yes, i would agree with that. Also good performances. And great to see in cinemas because it was going to go you know, it had a Streaming Release because its Cinema Release was messed up and it should have won awards but it was eligible last Year And Nobody saw it, so now its great that its in cinemas. Yes, go see it. Absolutely go see it. Whats your verdict on best out . See, i love annette, which is the musical by Leos Carax with music by sparks. I love sparks partly an Age Thing but i love sparks, absolutely love sparks. This is a story about a cynical comedian who marries a much loved soprano and they have a baby, which is portrayed by a puppet, and the baby inherits The Voice of its mother. And its like its a fable, its a very dark fable in many ways. It sounds like a completely bonkers idea but it works for me because there is a kernel of truth in there. Ive seen it three times now. Ive played the soundtrack over and over again. Its got some real earworms i mean, sparks are great at kind of earworms songs but i thought it was really wonderful. Its. It looks wacky beyond wacky it is, but its like the thing about quirky, you know . Theres a very thin line between quirky and irksome. Wacky makes it sound more zany which i never like zany. Its strange and weird and experimental but its also it made me cry. I love films that make me cry. Oh, well, so do i the servant i really, really want to see, though. It wont make you cry. 0h the servant was described this is a19605joe Losey Film with a screenplay by harold pinter, and dirk bogarde, sarah miles, james fox, Wendy Craig and its about people stuck in a single place, essentially, in which Servant And Master relationships are turned on their head. You can see it as a film that influenced everything from er, i mean, parasite, i think, takes an awful lot from it. Theres a Steve Woolley Film called stone which takes a lot from it, performance. Its in ak, back in cinemas now for a couple of weeks, then you can get it on Dvd And Download from the 20th. Really worth seeing. You loved the trailer, right . Yes, yes, yes, and i liked parasite, and echoes and yes, yeah. Yes, but very cold, very cold very chilly not a lot of laughs chuckles. Thats ok, thats ok. Get to the cinema nonetheless, thats what we have to say. So lovely to have you back. Thanks very much, mark. Great to be back, thank you. See you very soon. 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