S02E13: Exploring Film Festivals: Reviews of South African and German Films

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First on film and entertainment and four
movies to discuss and hopefully a couple of

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musical slash plays. So that's on
the menu today, as is Peter Krause.

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Quite delectable when it comes to cinema, at least your knowledge of sport.

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Peter, would that sort of fit
onto an old one cent piece.

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I was going to say a thimble, But yes, I think that's true.

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Greg, You're a little bit more
attuned to the sporting world, which

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also crosses over as entertainment. But
in terms of do you actually do you

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like any sport other than football?
I'm curious. The main one. Is

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there anything else that you show an
interest in at all in the world of

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sport or not? Well? No, okay, so Olympic games, no

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not. I do tend to watch
some of your strange is competing. But

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yeah, I'm curious in terms of
you know how you Nathan maybe, um,

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sorry, what was that? I
didn't hear that? Swimming? Yeah,

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now, I think swimming is a
terrific sport. It's one of those

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things I'm I'm allergic to chlorine and
I find that I learned to swim,

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but I don't swim well and I
can't say I'm confident into the water or

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in the water. Did you know
in both of you guys similar sort of

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age. Was swimming a big part
of your bringing up or not maturation?

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Greg? Yeah? I also I
used to go swimming all the time,

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especially in some of there. And
when I'm moving Melbourne, you had indoor

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pools. I didn't go swimming there
as well. So when you moved to

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Melbourne, so I'm pretty pretty birth
you know I don't drown. Put it

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that way. Well, so when
you say moved to Melbourne, where were

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you originally from out in the country
country Victoria? Yeah, okay, and

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plead up, what about you swimming
big part of your upbringing or not?

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Really? Not really, I just
had to do it when I was in

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primary school to get my certificate that
I couldn't drown, So fair and reasonable.

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I look, I suppose that the
easiest thing to do is walking,

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Greg, which is what you do, correct, And you can do that

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anywhere in the world at any time. Well, not at any time.

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I remember when I my wife is
South African and we visited South Africa for

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the first time since she left the
country, and it was my first experience

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there as well, and we were
warned that you don't want to go out

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after dark, which was quite sobering, to be quite honest. And when

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we landed, Joe Psburg that there's
a barbed wire everywhere, which was quite

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confronting, I've got to say.
And you know, obviously she came to

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Australia with a family to escape apartheid
and it was yeah, it was interesting

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how the whole country has changed and
changed since of course as well. But

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I suppose the difficulty is I mean, I remember even walking Do you remember

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the first match, even if you
don't follow cricket Greek, there was a

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big big to do because Dave Warner, David Warner, who's our opening batsman,

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was playing. I think it was
either a T twenty or a fifty

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over game. And I walked back
next to the shrine, and this was

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around about ten o'clock at night.
Now, if you know that part of

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the world, both of you and
I was confronted by two or three people,

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one of whom had a knife.
So that was kind of a bad

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experience, which was not far from
the CBD, and the CBD itself can

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be a bit ced Greek, which
is where you live cat it it can

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be, but here, I mean
lives here long enough, I know where

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to avoid and what time to avoid, and you know pretty safe. Well,

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I go, yeah, I just
wonder. I mean, Peter,

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you've got a friend of yours as
well who often comes to cinema and she

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sort of wanders home at night,
and I sort of I'm not trying to

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be sexist here, but I mean
obviously a person on their own walking home

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late at night. You know,
my wife and I were rather concerned,

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shall we say. I don't know
whether that something acrosses your mind. It

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does, but she seems very comfortable. She knows she don't. Yeh had

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a navigate by the way, you
mentioned South Africa to know that the South

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African Film Festival is on right now
at the Classic Cinema. No, I

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didn't. And the interesting thing is
why would they not give Why did we

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not hear more about it? The
promotion of it hasn't been strong. That's

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a good point. It's all done
internally by by the Classic and by the

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people who run it, so they
always contact me. And I went to

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the opening Knive on Thursday, which
was a documentary on Lady Smith Mumbaza.

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I think it's called anyway. So
there's about twenty films, both in cinema

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and online. Many of the ones, Peter, I mean many things,

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many things that are sort of narrative
based, not documentaries, and that are

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sort of original works. There are. There are a number of recent films

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documentaries of course, but also some
feature films, including one I've seen,

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The Fragile King, about a grandfather
son grandson relationship in South Africa. Very

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good film anyway, So no,
no, no, that's good. While

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we're on film festivals, we may
as well start with us, because the

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German Film Festival started on Thursday night, and well, I think at least

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you and I am not sure whether
Greek saw this one, but we saw

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the media preview was Cissy and I, Si, Si and I and it

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concerned it was a rather interesting film. Actually, I mean I didn't know

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the story, but I was kind
of thinking about this story as you know

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how much interest there was in Princess
Diana and unfortunately her untimely passing, etc.

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But back sort of more than one
hundred years earlier, there was interest

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in Duchess Elizabeth in Bavaria, which
is what Cissy and I sort of concentrates

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on and The Duchess lived between eighteen
thirty seven and eighteen ninety eight, and

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her nickname was Cissy, hence the
title of the movie, and she was

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Empress of Austria. She was also
Queen of Hungary as a result of her

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marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. The
first She was married Peter at sixteen,

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yeah, rather tender age. She
was married in eighteen fifty four. Now

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she's known, or was known,
is one of the most beautiful and famous

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women of nineteenth century Europe, and
she's played here by Suzanne Wolf. Quite

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a demanding beauty routine that the Duchess
had, including daily care of her long

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and abundant hair. I was thinking
of Rapunzel when I was sort of looking

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at that. Anyway, she maintained
a really rigorous and disciplined exercise regime or

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regiment, and I suppose I admire
that, but anyway, it was she

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was involved in sports like gymnastics,
and she was a rider as well,

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horse rider, and that sort of
helped her keep a slim figure. She

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also became emotionally distant from her husband
as she got older, and she basically

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escaped him fleed from him, and
also escaped duties of life at court,

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so she avoided those duties as much
as she possibly could, and she also

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traveled quite extensively. So this is
a Sissy and I as a wild reinterpretation

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of her story told from the perspective
her lady in waiting, who is known

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as Countess Irma von Saturay played by
Sandra Judea, and she was brought up.

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This is the sort of Irma von
Saturay brought up by her strict and

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overbearing mother Maria, and she's at
the age of forty two. Countess Irma

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was chosen to join the Empress to
join Sissy, who is by then living

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in an aristocratic women only commune at
her summer residence in Greece in Corfu.

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So it's fair to say that at
first Irma has no idea what's just hit

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earth, and the Empress really is
nothing, if not quite eccentric and extravagant.

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She's got this sort of my way
or the highway approach, dismissive,

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I would say, of subordinates,
and very dismissive on a whim. Right,

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if the if the breeze walks one
way or moves one way, she

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might have one approach and then the
next moment she's got another one. And

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this is, as I say,
Sissy's approach to everybody. She can be

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playful, she can be exuberant,
but just as easily quite melancholy and standoffish

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and at times really downright cruel.
Nevertheless, Irma grew to love the Empress

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and become highly protective of her,
and at one point she's clearly jealous of

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the Empress's affections for another person.
The director Frock Fistenwalder has based this film

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Sissy and I, which he wrote
along with Christian Kracht, on Irma's historical

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writings. Quite a fascinating portrait actually
of a woman prone to extremes, to

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excess, to indulgence, and the
relationship between the Empress and her lady in

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waiting. I thought it was very
well formed and quite quite well developed.

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I did appreciate the dynamic between them, and how Irma came to read read

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the Room out of how to sort
of read the mood of the bristl otherwise

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known as Cissy, quite quite adeptly. But my read on the Empress is

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that she's she regarded the people in
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prodded in any way she saw fit. So that that's my quick interpretation.

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What about yours pleader, Cissy,
and I, yeah, I think that's

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that's quite a reasonable interpretation. The
mythology surrounding the Austrian Empress Cissy is quite

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incredible. There were three films made
in the nineteen fifties starring Romi Schneider as

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Emprice Elizabeth, and this whole notion
of this potentially early feminist sort of empress

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and her wanting to be independent and
so on was starting to emerge in the

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third film in the fifties, but
also in the film that we saw recently,

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Corsage that starred Vicki Creeps, who
also played Emperors Cissy much more as

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an independent woman wanting to be free
of the shackles of marriage and of her

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husband. It's I found this version
seen through the eyes of Sandra Hula,

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who plays Irma, a very interesting
take on this whole mythology, because there

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have been a number of interpretations of
the emperors, and this is another version

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of that as seen through another eye
if you like. I like to think

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it's interesting because there's sort of a
dignity and on occasions of desperation about the

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way that Irma conducts herself. And
I kind of like that tuxtaposition. I

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like the way the characters were presented
in the film, and I thought that

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Suzanne Wolf brought this strength and determination
as well as vulnerability to her role as

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the emperors and Sandra Jula well really
runs the gamut of emotions as the due

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to for lady in waiting exactly.
Yeah, and as Sandra Hulo is such

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a terrific actress. She was of
course in Tony DMan and so many other

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films. So yes, that dynamic
is so well developed in the film.

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And it's interesting the way the film
concludes, which of course we won't spoil,

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but quite a contrast to Corsage and
quite a contrast to the original Cissy

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films from the fifties. So but
certainly a highlight of this year's German Film

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Festival. I also quite like George
Frederick. He makes an immediate and really

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favorable impression. Is the colorful friend
of the Empress, sure we say,

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who comes to visit her in Corfu. Yea, he may not have a

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big role, but it's a role
that really stands out or stood out to

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me. Yes, yes, exactly. And it's also nice to see Angelo

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Vincla, the veteran German actress,
playing a small but key role later in

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the film. It's a it's a
really well cast and well acted film.

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It's it's fascinating because what you've got
situation where everybody's constantly on edge trying to

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meet the Empress's demands. There they're
running and scouring is probably the word scurrying

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this way, and that you know
that these demands and expectations had quite seemed

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to be quite outrageous at times.
I've got to say I thought it was

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a bit indulgent, Peter, two
hours twelve minutes, really, I mean

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it sort of look it opens the
door and a cultured but clearly troubled woman

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who back in the day appeared as
intriguing, as I said, as Lady

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Diana was. But did it really
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I didn't worry about the length at
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developed very carefully in terms of her
character and the relationship between her and Erma,

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So I had no problem with that. Greg, you haven't seen this

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one, but you've seen it I've
seen this one. I'm sorry I wasn't

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ignoring you, but I wasn't sure
so were you agnorying me being ignored?

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So what did you think of Cissy
and I? Look? I thought Cosage

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recently as well in this film shares
a few similarities with it, and I

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thought this Room paled in comparison.
It lacked the bolder vision and style of

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Marie Krutzer there. Um this one, I thought it was a bit episodic

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in nature as well over the two
two and a bit of hours there,

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but it's got that modern sensibility here
which Peter alluded to as well. Um

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Elizabeth is shown as a radical woman
with a modern sensibility, but she's also

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shown as a flawed person, vag
and capricious. But I thought, um,

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Sandra Halla did a good job of
conveying this complex character there as beautifully

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shot. Has got great um costumes
and production design there, and some EVO

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image from the Cinems holder for there, but I thought it lacked any real

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jepth or insight into the characters.
As I said, a little bit episodic

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in nature, and I found over
two hours it was a little bit uneven

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and drags at times. Here two
strong central performances there. Obviously Wolf had

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a lot of fun playing her.
Um, yes, oh yeah, you

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could get you to her credit.
That's to her credit the way that there

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was a sort of almost little in
her step at times, and I thought

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that worked very well. Yeah.
So what would you give it? Out

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of ten? Great? Probably five? Really the bare parts that goes Cissy

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and I think Petter, you and
I are going to do better than that.

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What have you given them? I
should mention Corsage was set during her

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fortieth birthday and that time period,
whereas Cissy and I is much more developed

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over a longer period. But anyway, I really liked it. I think

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the characters were well developed and well
acted. Eight out of ten for me,

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Wow, okay, yeah, I'm
giving it a seven. So you

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know, I thought it was a
worthy film. It's not going to be

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everybody's cup of tea, but it's
the German Film Festival has got some Greg

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you've seen others and competer. Have
you seen others already within the festival?

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Not yet. I wasn't invited to
opening night. I surely be not Film

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without of Lies and now don't tell
us I want to see that. So

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we we'll perhaps discuss it later.
Is it a worthwhile film? Is what

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I'll ask you about it. Yeah, it's interesting your idea champion into all

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that stuff about ethics of journalism and
everything, and remind me a little bit

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of that two thous and three drama
Shattered Glass at start Hayden as a journalist,

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your fabricated stories. So yeah,
interesting story doesn't quite hang you together

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completely, but yeah, it's interesting
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What we just give us a score
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have given it? I'd probably do
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female expression. We need to be
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feel like we're worthy of your support, then go for it. Now your

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uncle, how about with Burtish?
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maybe maybe we need a new expression
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work. Talking about politically correct,
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me to talk about polite society.
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but there we go. And this
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name of it, that's it m
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what I'd call a disruptive cultural comedy
greg that fair enough. Yeah, crosses

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um Mollywood with a roll English comedy. Yeah, and at movie and coming

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of age story and rompom and Yeah, it's got a lot thrown into the

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at the cinemas, and it deserves
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way, it has a television background. Her name is Nida Manzoor, and

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I reckon she's crafted a kick up
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film, Deboos, So I'll be
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interest. It's set in London,
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a character called Ria played by Pree
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martial arts Ago Greg there's another sport
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dreams of becoming a stunt woman.
Ria. At every opportunity she prevails upon

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her older sister Lena played by Ritu
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her martial arts training, and she
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does time and time again, and
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hero, a woman called Yunus.
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at school. Ria is well,
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best friends Clara played by Sophina Bay
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the two best mates. And she's
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by Schina Baba Yemi. Meanwhile,
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page, quite frankly. She's dropped
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she's doing nothing. All ambition appears
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from working class stock. Unexpectedly,
then the girls and their parents Fatima played

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group, shall we say, And
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and yeah, the invite comes along
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I should say, affluent friend called
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a handsome and talented son called Salim
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who really can seemingly have any any
woman he wants, but he argets Lena

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quickly turns her head. The problem
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doesn't buy it, especially not when
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arranged marriage and in Lena's best interests, in the interests of her older sister.

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Even though she encounters fierce opposition,
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sabotage the union. That's what it's
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fun. We you and I,
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What Film Festival. Fantastic film Festival
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The alliteration works too. And mind
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Gnomes, which I can never get
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get a chance to see, you
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same light if you ever to see
the short, Is that correct, Peter?

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It is a wonderful film. Oh
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ingesting some gnomes. I think you've
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if you names, and we're just
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wife was ready to run, kicking
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we go. It is quite something
anyway, We're not we're on about names.

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We're on about polite society, heaps
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no doubt it's going to resonate with
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say, Greek pre aken Sarah.
I want to find in the lead role

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fierce and funny and those expressions of
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give her extra gravitates. Did you
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she had put it herself well in
a very physical role as well, very

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good um well in the role there. But this is a sort of unique

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film, you know. It stands
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reboots, sequels and superhero movies in
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across something always a little bit different
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of fun. As you said,
Alex, I like rheas two side kicks

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at school. I thought they were
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those scene where they're trying to find
the dirt on Salim there, and I

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liked the mother an Interati there right, Nimra Busher, I thought she was

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really good there, and she relishes
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every opportunity as a malevolent metriarc there. M really well done. I thought

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there was some great fight choreography here
as well spectacular costumes. The music was

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good. Um yeah, it looked
really good. And it carries a strong

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feminist message as well, jelly with
themes of family, sisterhood, culture,

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tradition. M yeah, I like
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Arria. She has a moment as
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to deluded, doesn't she really?
She goes yeah, but yeah, as

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presum the center of the film,
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well. I really also liked um
the sort of the characterization, not only

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of the You've got You've got a
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m Bouka, But I also like
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girls. I thought she she just
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plays it straight but comedically, and
it works. It really works very very

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well, doesn't it. Yeah,
And I like Jeff Murzer as the father

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too. It's a familiar role to
him because he played the father in Blinded

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by the Light as well, so
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I've already bought a lot of her
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great, and look the I mean, the many standout features in this as

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far as I'm concerned, You've already
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persona of Nim Rabuka. I've thought
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was very strong, and Ashley Conin's
cinematography was worth a mention. Really quite

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a lot of wonderful, colorful scene
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and that's where the best of Bollywood
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I just thought the costume design by
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and Chares manz Or they also hit
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it better? I really enjoyed it
as a cultural satire, especially revealing a

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lot about Pakistani culture, and also
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including from the director and writer and
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it worked extremely well. I loved
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be a stunt woman and was rehearsing
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that there were some occasions when there
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they were flying through the air with
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of thing. Look, this is
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cultures can work together very well in
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funny in many respects. The cartoonish
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actually very well presented. And yes
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type film, but more of that
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those The wedding scene was certainly a
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yeah, But the martial martial arts
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and seeking revenge when they are treated
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an inherent silliness about it, but
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a large part of the plot.
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this is a film that's got Sassin
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regard, and it's I reckon,
it's I suppose i'd call it a lose

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yourself in the moment crowd pleaser.
There's going to be a lot of people

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who enjoy this, so I hope
it does well. It is called Polite

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Society. It's one hundred and form. It's rated M your score out of

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ten. Peter loved it. Even
the ironic title is amusing. I also

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gave this one eight out of ten. Good on you, what about you?

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Greg? Yeah, it's quite silly
at times about it's a real queer.

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Please. I gave it seven out
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and a half. So we've spend
we've spend seven away, so the average

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is seven and a half. Go
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going to do very, very nicely. Quite a contrast. And by the

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way, you are on jare eighty
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seven if you want. I mean, you should get a little bit of

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shadow every now and again. But
there's programming to stimulate you. The inspection.

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It's m A rated. It's ninety
five minutes, inspired by the writer

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and director a person called Elegance bretton
his own story of overcoming fierce odds to

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become a US marine. Now,
Greg, have you ever wanted to become

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a member of the Armed Forces?
No? Okay, Peter, definitely not.

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I have to say that. Very
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He actually fought for Australia and Afghanistan
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know, he's been serving this country
from the age of eighteen. So you

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know, some people are destined to
do that sort of thing. Anyway,

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we get off the path of the
inspection, but we're talking about New Jersey.

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I think it's two thousand and five, isn't it that two thousand and

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five, And you've got twenty five
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leading a well, a threadbare existence, and he's a strange from his

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mum Inez played by Gabriel Union.
He's been on his own since the age

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of sixteen. The one thing he
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proud. He's down and out though
things that really haven't gone well, and

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he determines that he's going to sign
on to become a marine. Problem is

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that boot camp is hardly what he
counted on. Of course, it's tough

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on all new recruits who have to
meet harsh requirements, in this case of

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a very rough taskmaster, a desert
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But this man, ellas French,
is especially singled out. And I

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should say at this point openly,
gay men are not allowed in the armed

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services, so they keep quiet about
their sexuality when they enlist. Now that's,

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of course not to say that there
aren't gay men and women in the

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military. Of course there are.
But what's that expression? If you don't

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if you don't say anything, don't
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Yeah. But after Laws and the
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discover that French is in fact gay, they give him hell. They

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constantly step over the line. They
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as that. But despite the challenges, several of which are illegal, he

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keeps coming back for more. Now, as for the mother, the confrontation

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between mother and son happens late in
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and it lays out just why the
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those things it's hard to watch at
times. And Branton as the writer and

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director, I've got to say I
thought he took a sledgehammer approach to the

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material, painted really ugly portraits as
the men are exposed to this heady,

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testosterone filled environment, and you got
pride in service on the one hand,

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but it's counterpointed with the dirty tactics
used to undermine the recruits. So look,

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although it is an important story to
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I felt the all or nothing approach
was too heavy handed when a bit

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of nuance was warranted or a lot
of nuance was warranted. Still, Jeremy

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Pope Pope makes quite an impressive feature
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who's really the easiest option would be
to bail And the other one, of

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course that stands out is bachim Woodbine
plays up that tough, unrelenting demeanor of

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a man used to getting his own
way. There's also a bit of a

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thuggishness and a lot of thuggishness about
McCall lombardi's portrayal. Looking to see French

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broken, I also quite like the
when we talk nuance, There is a

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bit of nuance about the squadron leader's
deputy, whose name is Rosalez, played

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by Raoul Castillo. He recognizes he's
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training the recruits, but he can
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French finds himself. And I should
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the fact that we don't know exactly
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near the end of the picture.
I thought that worked very, very well.

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So that was my take on it. Peter, what about yours?

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I found this quite an impressive film
because it because it's clearly autobiographical and of

404
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course the first time filmmaker as well, and he's telling the story of being

405
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:12.720
gay in the Marines and having a
disaffected mother at the same time. I

406
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:20.279
think the scenes are very realistic and
understandable rather than over the top, especially

407
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:24.839
when you consider do you not yet
I know? Well? O? Great

408
00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.240
better for that very reason for the
wrong reason. To be honest, Look,

409
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:37.000
if you've seen films like Full Metal
Jackets and Bow trava clear denise film

410
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:43.319
about the foreign legion and the tough
male rivalry and as you say, testosterone

411
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:50.200
filled situation that these men find themselves
in and have to overcome to try and

412
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move forward and achieve something. I
think it is presented quite realistically. The

413
00:32:54.680 --> 00:33:01.519
Marines would not be backward in coming
forward in training their men although we don't

414
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:08.519
see any women unfortunately, but training
their men to be as tough and as

415
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possible to be able to resist the
enemy. So I think that sort of

416
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:20.000
personal reflection by the filmmaker works very
well for me. And with the final

417
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.160
scene where the lead character, the
lead actor Jeremy Pope, looks in the

418
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:29.839
mirror, the whole idea of I
think the ideas that we the audience look

419
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:34.319
at the whole training method, look
at the way men deal with one another,

420
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and look at the way gays in
particular gay people are treated in the

421
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:43.279
military. I think there are a
number of aspects to this film that really

422
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worked for me. Oh that's interesting, Leah. I mean I really would

423
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:51.039
have liked more subtled in the storytelling. I think that would have added belief

424
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.079
for me. And I'm not doubting
that there was the barking instructions from the

425
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:59.160
moment they get off the bus.
I don't doubt any of that. I

426
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:05.440
just it was most of the characters
were single dimensional, and that troubled me.

427
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:09.320
Peter, that didn't trouble you.
I didn't find so much the single

428
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:14.280
dimensional I think. I think they
were on the surface and early on they

429
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.559
seemed to be like that, but
there were some characters that developed and changed

430
00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.719
over that time period. So no, it didn't bother me at all.

431
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.480
Okay, Greg, you are yet
to see this one, are you nice?

432
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.000
Yeah? Okay, so that No, that's well, it's it's going

433
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.119
to be an interesting one for you, given that Peter and I have got

434
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.559
in a vastly different views. So
okay, it's m a rated. It's

435
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.719
called the Inspection runs for ninety five
minutes. Score from you, Peter,

436
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:43.840
I really liked it. Seven out
of ten. From me, Oh,

437
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.440
well, that's interesting. I'm not
giving it a bad mark. I'm giving

438
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.599
it a six and a half because
I still think it had an important message.

439
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.800
So we're not far apart, but
I suppose our narrative on it is

440
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.159
somewhat different. So yeah, well, Greg, maybe next week if you

441
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.480
get the chance to see it,
you can aid you your two penneth worth,

442
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:04.320
so to speak, and give us
your opinion as to which way,

443
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.679
which way you go on it.
I mean, I think the biggest problem

444
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.880
that I have with movies is something
I suppose the script when when they don't

445
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:16.199
work for me. The other thing
is you want to believe, you actually

446
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:22.559
want to lose yourself in the characters, and I always felt that they were

447
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.000
were acting. That's that's my sort
of problem with it. Anyway, let's

448
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.519
let's turn it to Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three. Now, Okay,

449
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:37.119
Greg, you're quite vocal in saying
superhero movies are over them, right,

450
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.800
You've been saying that for a long
time on this program. Okay, I

451
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.920
just get toward them. They're the
same old, same old, great special

452
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.639
effects, but yeah, no I'm
over them. Yeah. Now you haven't

453
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:51.639
seen Guardians of the Galaxy. I
had to put you at three o'clock on

454
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:53.800
a Tuesday afternoon, which I can
get to know because you're of course teaching.

455
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:59.199
So yeah, which is highly meritories
in and of itself. So once

456
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:02.000
again I'll be curious as to whether
you think this sort of breaks them old

457
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:07.840
or maintains it looks it's full of
action, it's got the humor that we're

458
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.559
used to with The Guardians of the
Galaxy got a ripping soundtrack, and that's

459
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.239
one of the things that really stands
out about the franchise, and it's really

460
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.639
what I liked about this. It's
got a great heartfelt backstory, so it's

461
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:24.880
quite an appealing package. It's the
third film in the trilogy. The only

462
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:29.639
problem, Peter, each one's fifteen
minutes longer than the one before. I

463
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.840
mean seriously, I looked at it. I think two hours one, two

464
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.280
hours fifteen and two hours thirty.
I mean really. Now the fan favorites

465
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:44.280
return. They're pitted against a megalomaniacal
arch villain who's searching for perfection at any

466
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.679
cost. There's nothing terribly original about
that, though, but there we go.

467
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.800
That's what the plot line is.
And at the start of the movie,

468
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.599
the Guardians of the Galaxy are adjusting
to life on Nowhere and Peter Quill

469
00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:01.760
Chris Pratt is struggling to deal with
the loss of his beloved Gomorrah Zoe's Saldana's

470
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.280
character, and he's constantly drunk.
Um does that ring a bell for you,

471
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:12.280
Gregory? No, I'm not warning
anybody on the distance planet, and

472
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:17.679
I'm not constantly drunk. Despite what
you might think in your just Yes,

473
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.280
you know that they are purely meant
as as a gentle dig nothing further.

474
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.679
So I hope you take them in
the right vein nothing, nothing further your

475
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.400
worship. And I've got you on
health kicks in the past, So there

476
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.159
we go. I'm not sure that
was me or whether that was you,

477
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.480
but being me, I was jodding
long before I met you, Alex,

478
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:42.880
and that that's it. Sorry,
I'm not I'm not trying to push too

479
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.639
hard on this Greek so I apologize
on air if it sounded like it.

480
00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:52.440
Um. Then out of the blue, this colony is attacked by Adam Warlock

481
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.679
played by Will Poulter. Is this
powerful artificial being created? This is sort

482
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:00.880
of AI related again, And I've
got to say to you, and AI

483
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:04.559
is scary, is it not?
Peter? I mean, you know the

484
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.960
prospect for AI, if it's used
for good, I think it's going to

485
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:14.079
be brilliant. But the counter is
rather scary. Do you do you agree?

486
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:19.119
Look? I agree it's when it
becomes humanistic, like it does in

487
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:23.000
X McKenna and other films, that's
where it becomes scary. Well, also,

488
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:28.199
it's always been scary in movies even
as far back as two thousand and

489
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:34.079
one of Space Odyssey, Ye Gamon
Seed and Skynet and de Terminated movies,

490
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:39.360
all the Terminator movies. Terminated two
was what a brilliant film. I just

491
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:44.760
I never most people who've seen Terminated
two are blown away by it, and

492
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:49.159
all these years later, I think, yeah, anyway, that it's one

493
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.760
of those films. Having said that, let's get back to Guardians of the

494
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:58.360
Galaxy volume three. So you've got
the colony being attacked by It and Warlock

495
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:05.519
and the whole idea is that they're
out to destroy the Guardians. And this

496
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:09.880
guy reeks Havoc almost claims the life
of Rocket because this film is all about

497
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:15.280
Rocket, voiced by Brad Cooper.
His only hope for survival rests on the

498
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:21.760
Guardians infiltrating the layer of a character
known as the High Evolutionary. And I'm

499
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:27.400
going to mispronounce his name, so
I apologize. Chuck Woody Iwujie. That's

500
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.960
the best I can do. Chook
Woody Iwujie plays the High Evolutionary. He's

501
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:37.559
a sociopath Psney looking to create a
perfect race of highly evolved in intelligent beams

502
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:45.559
in a nutshell and his great tesque
experiments because he experiments very very liberally expose

503
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.840
Rocket's heart wrenching backstory. So at
the same time, an old flame steps

504
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:54.599
back into Quill's life, but she
no longer recognizes him. She seems quite

505
00:39:54.920 --> 00:40:00.960
cold and distant, quite calculating as
well into early Because you've got the future

506
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:07.079
of the galaxy at state. The
Guardians continue to snipe amongst themselves. I

507
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.639
mean that's been a constant through the
three chapters. Shall we say. Nebula

508
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:17.519
played by Karen Gillen, Gamura's adoptive
sister is hard nosed and anything but sentimental.

509
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:24.800
Mantis pom Clement Tief, whose Quill's
half sister, is adept at using

510
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.599
her empathetic powers to try to strike
an a chord. And you've got to

511
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:35.679
say a high intelligent quotient isn't high
on Draxx the Destroyer Dave Battista's agenda.

512
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.280
He just wants to use his muscle, but he's always fiercely loyal to Peter

513
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:45.320
Quill. Then you've got Groots,
the Vin Diesel persona who is always ready

514
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.199
to shall we say, branch out
Greek? Can I use a dead joke?

515
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:52.280
When Trouble learns so you can use
it. I'm not I haven't got

516
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.880
a copyright on it. James Gunn, Well, he's at the head of

517
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.719
the franchise. He's been doing it. He's been doing when did it start?

518
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:06.800
Quite more than more than a decade
ago, And again proves that you

519
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.719
know he's good at He's good at
doing this sort of stuff. Several compelling

520
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:13.679
features and at the core of the
story, of course, as a dysfunctional

521
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:17.920
but loving family. The Guardians themselves, So, Peter, did you did

522
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.079
it rock your socks or not?
Guardians Volume three? No? I kept

523
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:28.800
my socks on, but I didn't
mind it. I thought it was a

524
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.639
nice way to conclude with a question
Martin. Next to it, the Guardians

525
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:36.559
of the Galaxy franchise. I liked
the first one, which had that sort

526
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:40.800
of tongue in cheek quality to it, and I am grouped almost every ten

527
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:45.440
minutes. And we get that in
this version as well. Group speaks a

528
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.159
lot, doesn't he he does.
His vocabulary needs to be expanded a little

529
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:53.079
bit. Perhaps he needs to branch
out a bit, but anyway, it

530
00:41:53.360 --> 00:42:00.760
looked I quite liked it because it
had that nice melancholy backstory for Rocket,

531
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:07.599
and I like the way the characters
interacted occasionally with some amusing lines here and

532
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:12.280
there. And it was amusing also
to see Sylvester Stallone in the film.

533
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:15.159
I thought, Wow, what's he
doing in there? Not lost, but

534
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:21.679
he was there. But that's true. And even though I'm not a huge

535
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:28.599
fan of these these superhero type films, I thought the Guards the Galaxy franchise

536
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:32.000
does work reasonably well. I should
also point out at Possession I went to

537
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.440
see a few days ago, there's
a mid credit, end credit sequence which

538
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.760
a lot of people had already walked
out of. Yes, and they would

539
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:44.519
I mean, there were very few
people left in the cinema. In fact,

540
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.960
we've got to say, Peter,
that there's two elements here. You

541
00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:52.320
there's while the credits are rolling,
and then after the credits exactly. Yes,

542
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:55.880
these films should know that. By
now it's sort of, um,

543
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:02.559
you think so, Yeah, I
would have thought so too, Greg's I

544
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.920
reckon, well, how many people
would have been left in the cinema?

545
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:13.079
Maybe twenty? Yeah about that about
that? Certainly by the time the end

546
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:16.239
credits concluded, in that final scene
came up, which is amusing in itself.

547
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.400
Look overall, I quite liked the
film I like the Rocket character.

548
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.360
I think was so beautifully developed.
I think that was a highlight of the

549
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:28.400
film. Hmm, yeah, I
agree, I thought. I mean it

550
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:30.239
was quite emotional, which is great. I mean, that's what you really

551
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:35.159
want. The vulnerabilities of many of
the key characters are also exposed, aren't

552
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.480
they, Peter Like? And that
works well. I thought the key players

553
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:42.719
are strong. Each installment, as
I mentioned, did not need to be

554
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.760
longer than the one before it,
and I've got to say at two and

555
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:49.480
a half hours, it did feel
a bit strung out. The music choices

556
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:52.840
though, aren't they basket of all? They do that so darn well,

557
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:57.199
pat don't they Absolutely the music is
terrific and the way they feed off the

558
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.199
scenes that they are based on works
extremely well. And I also, I

559
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:07.679
must admit, the CGI was absolutely
incredible, especially the multitude of animals and

560
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.800
other characters that were emerging in the
film. Yeah. Look, the numbers

561
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.559
had me up and about. And
the humor, well, for the most

562
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:16.760
part, it's quite corny, let's
be honest, but very much in keeping

563
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.800
with what we've come to expect from
the Guardians. It's a pair of safe

564
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.320
hands, That's how I describe it. And it Look, there's another element

565
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.440
here which I think is interesting.
If you haven't seen the other two,

566
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:32.280
the question is can you go along
and see this and enjoy it? Absolutely,

567
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.000
you can pick up the threads.
Of course, it would help if

568
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:38.719
you know the characters, but I
reckon you could. What do you think,

569
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.039
Peter? I agree you can easily
pick up the story without having seen

570
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:47.639
the other two episodes. Yeah,
so, I mean, look, a

571
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.920
few reservations, but generally speaking,
by and large, Oregon it it's the

572
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.159
Mark and it's a film worth seeing, and just be prepared to give up

573
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.800
two an a half hours of your
life. It's rated m's called Guardians of

574
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:07.159
the Galaxy Volume three, And even
though this trilogy has ended, there's reference

575
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:12.480
to what happens next, correct at
the end of the film. So that's

576
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.760
that's why I said, question mark
about the ending. Yeah, yeah,

577
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:17.559
very good. Yes, Well,
you know, if it's a money making

578
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.719
machine, Hollywood is not known to
suddenly drop the bundle, So no pun

579
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:28.400
intended score out of ten, Peter
I gave it a solid six out of

580
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:32.159
ten. Solid six. Okay,
I'm not sure that there is such a

581
00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:37.480
thing that's a that's a rather disappointing
score for a film that you've quite enjoyed.

582
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:42.320
Yes, but considering that I give
many of the superhero films less than

583
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:47.480
five, this was a great fair
enough reason I'm giving it a seven out

584
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.000
of ten. So there we go, folks. You are on JARE and

585
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.960
I referenced earlier today that we love
your money. No, it's not like

586
00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:00.960
that. We actually want we'd love
you to support us speak because we are

587
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:07.519
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gets you a year's subscription to the station

588
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.000
and hopefully you and others will be
encouraged to do that. So just go

589
00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.880
to jay Dashair dot com dot au
and listen to programming twenty four seven if

590
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:20.559
you want to. Now, I
want to talk a little bit about a

591
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:25.559
couple of play slash musicals. One
of them is actually it's going from Melbourne

592
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.760
to Sydney and then they're doing a
reading in New York. So it's nice

593
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.719
to have an Australian production where you
know it's going to go beyond our shores.

594
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:40.400
It's called Driftwood the musical. It's
on at Chapel Off Chapel, which

595
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:45.119
is well a really favorite venue of
mine, as you know, Greg at

596
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.320
in Peran. There you've gone a
few times, haven't you to chapel a

597
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:54.519
few times? Yes? Yeah,
I really there's something nice about a beautiful

598
00:46:54.679 --> 00:47:00.840
church that's been turned into a venue
for the people, and there's something fitting

599
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:06.599
about that. Isn't there for you
the as you releas experience anyway? Alex?

600
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.440
Quite right, it's interesting, Greg, because I suppose the hard part

601
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.679
is there's not enough hours in the
day. I think all of us find

602
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:19.519
that because Peter, you go to
more movies than anybody on the planet.

603
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:22.800
Greg, you try to go to
more movies than anybody on the planet.

604
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:27.719
But basically work share, we say, it gets in the way and I'm

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always torn between Like this coming week
there's the opening of Once, which conflicts

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with the opening night well the media
invitation to the story about John Farnham,

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who's my favorite Australian performer. So
you know, you want to split yourself

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into not literally, so it's always
a juggling exercise. So the one thing

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that I would like to see as
well, and maybe you guys can help

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orchestrate this. We need a diary
that combines theater and film. Now I

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keep one, but I want a
professional one done by the publicists, can

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we ever orchestrate that, Peter,
what do you reckon? Good luck with

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that? The film area, the
central diary isn't used properly anyway. Yeah,

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I know it's a pipe dream,
so I'll continue keeping my own diary.

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So Driftwo the musical, it's set
against the backdrop of the Holocaust and

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it's a deeply moving tale of tribulation
and triumph. The starting point for the

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creator Tanya de Jong. Tanya DeJong
basically she's an am I should say it's

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her mother, Eva DeJong Duldig's memoir
that was written in twenty seventeen and is

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called Driftwood, Escape and Survival through
Art and what you've got here is a

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musical that focuses on the true story
of Eva's mother. That's Tanya's grandmother,

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whose name was Slava, Horror of
its Duldick. Slava Horror of its DULDI.

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You got the Horowitz and you've got
the Duldig families. They moved from

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Poland to Vienna before the start of
the First World War. Slava played by

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Tanya to John who lived with and
was very close to her sister Rella.

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Mikaela Berger married Karl Anton Berezen.
So once again Slava married Karl and Slava

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and her sister Ella are very very
close. So both husband and wife.

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Slava and Karla were artists and Rerella
was an actress. Now Slava had a

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brilliant idea to create and patent and
this actually happens. Yes, indeed true

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story. The foldable umbrella. What
a great invention, foldable umbrella. So

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you see how that goes down with
the within the musical. So this is

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a woman who Slava really appreciated fine
design. Filled their home with practical and

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beautiful furniture. The Rise of Hitler
though that with the jack Boots coming,

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their lives and those of their extended
families were in peril. Slava and Carl's

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daughter Eva, played by Bridget Costello, acts as the narrator to Driftwood the

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musical, and events start to unfold
as Eva celebrates her eighteenth birthday. All

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her life she's noted and unexplains sadness, a secretiveness about her parents. And

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then her father gifts her a treasure
trove of documents, of letters, of

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photos and more than that, right, and that explains why why the sadness,

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why the secretive nature? Also among
the five performers is Nelson Gardner,

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who has, among other roles well, He's cast as Karl's brother Ignaz and

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Rella's husband Marcel. You think about
it, so many families were torn asunder

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or destroyed by the Nazis. Accordingly, this personal story cuts to the quick,

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but it also is one of hope
and inspiration. The playwright is Jane

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Body, while the score by Anthony
Barnhill has been influenced by the music of

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the era and also by Jewish melodies. There's a great deal too Driftwood.

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The musical so much in the lives
of the protagonists. The first act that

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establishes the relationships, but I found
the second particularly impactful because the revelations just

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keep on coming. Tears, they
were rolling down my cheeks. The pick

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of the performance to me Mikhaela Berger. She's got a real richness of tone,

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and that's matched by her authenticity,
which is what we talked about Beta

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with regards to what I don't like. When I don't like a movie,

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often it's because I don't have the
belief that I want to have, So

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that's really important here. Tenure to
John. She's an opera singer and this

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operatic excellence is really noteworthy throughout.
Anton Bereson is this constant and assured presence,

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is very much a safe pair of
hands. And Bridget Costello, she's

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got this really sweet rounded voice,
beautiful vocals, very much ear pleasing.

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Nelson Gardner jack of all trades,
assuming numerous personas and accordingly he adopts several

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accents the sets and props. The
set designer is Jacob Battista, highly evocative.

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The furniture of the furnishings along with
personal items established the time frame and

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I really liked this element that I'm
about to share with you. A large

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jagged parchment like screen above the stage, a really fine showcase for visuals.

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Then you've got sound and lighting design, yes they enhance the experience. And

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a three piece band comprised of piano, violin and cello really excellent. First

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rate direction is from Gary Abrahams and
he has continued to successfully work on the

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production since its premiere last year,
and the choreography is by Sophie Lochran.

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There's also a brilliant program, please
get that when you go along to see

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Drift with the musical highly informative and
insightful, well worth purchasing. So it's

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on drift with the Musical at Chapel
of Apple until the twentieth of May.

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Then it moves to three venues in
Sydney and if you're interested buying tickets,

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it's pretty easy just go to Driftwood
the musical dot com do au. That

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is a Driftwood. So I've seen
it now two years in a row,

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and they have developed the story,
there's no question about that. I thought

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there was a lot of a lot
of changes that worked very very well in

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the second act. Maybe it was
just my impression, but that's how I

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saw it. That is Driftwood.
Now I'm just cognizant that we are running

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very short of time, so I
am going to mention just in passing that

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next week i'll give it a full
review. Happy Days is on Melbourne Theater

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Production Company production, which I saw
on Friday night at Southbank Theater the Sumner.

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This is the Irish playwright Samuel Becketts. It's considered to be a master

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work and the yeah The Independent in
Britain called it one of the forty best

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plays of all time. It's on
at Southbank Theater The Sumner until the tenth

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of June. Directed by Petra Kalieve
and starring Judith Lucy. Wow. Great

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performance by her and also Hayden Spencer. I'll talk more about it next week.

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Peter, thank you for your participation. Laser and Greg likewise, pleasure

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to have you with us. Thank
you, good on. We'll catch you

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next week on First On Film and
Entertainment.