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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Hogg talks about her new film The Souvenir Part II. Mark reviews new animation Sing 2, about an anthropomorphic koala called Buster Moon and his friends who must persuade a reclusive rock star lion called Clay Calloway, played by Bono, to join them for the opening of a new show; Pedro Almodóvar directing Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma in Parallel Mothers, the story of two mothers who give birth on the same day; Amulet, about an ex-soldier, living homeless in London, and is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother; Flag Day, Sean Penn’s film about a father who lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter; Taming the Garden, a documentary following trees that are transported from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister; Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan, about a soldier who, before he is killed in action in Iraq, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father; and the long-awaited The King’s Daughter, about King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leading him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00 Podcast starts 00:28:00 Top 10 00:53:00 Joanna Hogg 01:06:24 Taming the Garden 01:09:20 Amulet 01:23:02 Parallel Mothers 01:30:11 Flag Day 01:37:07 Sing 2 01:48:20 Journal for Jordan 01:51:46 The King's Daughter

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Okay. Yes. I haven't got a hymn sheet yet, so if we're working on magic, magic

0:12.6

air is just stuff. But I tell you what I do have. I have this from screen daily.

0:17.3

Hang on, has the magic started? Have you not, can you not tell? No, I couldn't tell.

0:21.5

Let me just put that away in that case. And I've this, I said to Simon, what are you putting

0:26.2

away? I'm just putting away, I was sending a text because I thought we were doing a thing.

0:29.9

And then I said, Simon Paul, can you send me a hymn sheet? There are two pieces of,

0:33.0

the thing that you tweet is the running order. But we also have a thing called the hymn sheet,

0:38.6

which basically tells us how and where to be funny. Yeah, no, that is what, that is the

0:43.4

hymn sheet is what I tweet. Oh, is it? Okay, fine. Simon Paul tweets, emailed the hymn

0:49.0

sheet to you, but not to me. And we just did the trails. And I said, can you send me a

0:52.8

hymn sheet? Why are you telling everybody this? I'm just for context. And rather than doing

0:57.9

that, what you did was he gave me two pieces of paper, which are now redundant. They

1:04.7

are now in here, my finest Nancy Pelosi impression. Is that the end of your anecdote there? That's

1:13.0

like any other business clarification. No one's got a point of order. No one got any

1:18.8

of those meetings. Point of order. I'd like to read from screen daily. This is not a

1:25.4

phrase you hear often. Jared Leto took a bold approach playing flamboyant black sheep

1:30.6

Paolo in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci. If bold is a kind word for that. The actor tells

1:35.3

screen about how he tackled a role that became one of the film's major talking points.

1:41.2

When Jared Leto signed up for the role of the flamboyant but delusional Paolo Gucci in

1:45.4

Ridley Scott's House of Gucci, he told the director just so you know I'm going to go

1:51.6

completely crazy here. So it was in all him. Of course it was. Of course it was. There

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