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that s it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. hello and a very warm welcome to this week s film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week s cinema releases we have, as ever, mark kermode. mark, what delights have you been sampling this week? a very mixed bag this week. we have good luck to you, leo grande, starring emma thompson. we have the new francois ozon film, everything went fine. and lightyear, the ultimate origin story, apparently. good luck to you, leo grande, this had a lot of advance publicity because emma thompson has been talking about body image in the media a lot. yes. there has been a lot of press about it. she stars as a widowed former religious studies teacher who s only intimate encounter in her whole life has been her husband and apparently very mundane and vanilla. she s now single, widowed. and she s decided she wants to find out what all the fuss is about. she makes a list of stuff that she wants to do and being practical to the point
of being brewed, she books a hotel room and hires an escort in the form of leo grande. here is a clip. you don t have to worry. this is just the two of us tonight. so, what is your fantasy? i m not sure you could really class it as a fantasy, - it s a bit mundane for that. 0k, well, what would you most desire? desires are never mundane. to have sex. ..tonight with you. that s about it, - really, for the moment. she s very good in this, isn t she? i think emma thonpson is good in almost everything. it s directed by sophie hyde, written by katy brand. let s do all the positives first. the script is often very funny and both of those performers are terrific and they are welljudge performances because it s a balance between the poignant and comedic and they get itjust right and it s
that s about it, - really, for the moment. she s very good in this, isn t she? i think emma thonpson is good in almost everything. it s directed by sophie hyde, written by katy brand. let s do all the positives first. the script is often very funny and both of those performers are terrific and they are welljudge performances because it s a balance between the poignant and comedic and they get itjust right and it s like watching two performances at the top of their game. great. the film is about a subject which let s be honest, cinema in general and british cinema in particular is considered to be taboo. cinema worries about actually talking about intimacy. on the downside, it s somewhat stagey. it plays out as a series of chaptered encounters in the same hotel room, except for in the very end. and i can almost imagine it as being like a two handed play. it s also performative. leo is playing a role