Francesca Rudkin: Back in Action and We Live in Time

Back in Action 

Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown (Netflix). 

 

We Live in Time 

Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together —falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family— a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.  

As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley's decade-spanning, deeply moving romance (in cinemas). 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at Me.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Francesca Rudkin is here with our film picks for this week. Kilda,
good morning, Hey, thank you very much for holding the
Ford over over the last couple of weeks and doing
all the tough stuff. It's some nasty year always. I
hope you've had a bit of a bit of a
summer in between.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Nice to have you back. I have been loving summer.
But I'm going to take off tomorrow afternoon for a week,
which would be love.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Very good, very good. Okay, We've got a couple of well,
rather different films for us this morning. Cameron Diaz is
back for her first film, her comeback film with first
in a decade, alongside Jamie Fox. Let's have a listen
to Back in Action.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
What is going on?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Wait, Jason boy? Yeah, but we remember stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I knew you guys were lying about something, but another
day you required to be. I mean, that's not why
we're cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, it's Cameron Diaz. So she's back.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, it's been eleven year break. This is her first
sort of throw back into acting. This was also the
film as well that Jamie Fox who Coaster had his
stroke on so it was a bit of a difficult production,
but they got through it in the end. Look, a
lot of people might have gone back to work. It
might the year might be a little bit daunting. You
might be thinking, oh my gosh, here we go again,

(01:35):
back into routine, and you just need some really mindless
fun escapism at the end of the week, and this
film very much ticks that box. It's on Netflix. We
watched it a busy week and my partner laughed a
little bit too much. I thought, Jack, Oh, okay, I'd
like to do it's really not that funny, but yeah,

(01:57):
I just kind of clearly need something really yeah fun
and Celi to watch and I was just like, it
was quite funny watching him. It is wonderfully unbelievable. The
story about these two spies. They fall in love. This
is you know, Cameron and Jamie. She gets pregnant. They
decide to leave the business and they go dark, and
they end up in suburbia and they've got these two
kids and that don't really like them. They're teenagers, and

(02:21):
they are suddenly dragged back into the old business and
they just happen to take the kids with them, So
all of a sudden, the kids think they're quite cool
because they discover that their parents are spies. Look for
all the terrible, fake looking stunts and action, this is
actually a bit of a family comedy. The funniest lines
and things are between Jamie Fox and Kimeronda is when
they're pretending to be normal parents when clearly they're not.

(02:43):
It's quite a good gag and it does present some
very funny lines. And the two of them are awesome together,
Like the chemistry between them is really really good. It's
very very easy to watch this film. But yeah, no,
just good night entertainment from Seth Gordon. He's the director
of films like Horrible Bosses and they watch film and
things like that. So yeah, light and easy and breezy.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Jack's sounds good, like a bit of fun, which is
perfectly reasonable at this time of you. So that's back
in action. It's on Netflix and next film is showing
in cinemas at the moment, So let's have a listen
to We Live in Time.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm so sorry, but do you know each other yet?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I run you over?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Orry?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, that's Florence Pew and Andrew Garfield starring together.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, so this is we Live in Time, This is
on at the cinemas, and this is quite different. This
is a beautiful, a very emotional, heartbreaking, warm film. It's
a romantic drama. Florence Pew and Andrew Garfield once again,
probably the chemistry between them is what makes this film work.
It's just lovely watching these two fall in love. You
kind of heard how they met just in the trailer there.

(04:00):
But they're very relatable, likable characters, but also quite unique
like they have you know, it's not like you're just
being presented with sort of a cookie cut or of
a character. But the film is about more than just love.
It is about becoming a parent, is it about dealing
with what life throws at you. It is about living

(04:20):
with a terminal illness, It is about grief. And the
film is told in a nonlinear structure, so we're constantly
moving back and forward in time, so where throughout the
film learning more about these characters and who they are
as the story progresses, which I think was quite a
good idea because if you sort of strip it back,
the story is quite generic. It's quite a predictable ted

(04:43):
you because that just makes it a little bit more interesting,
But at the end of the day, it's all about
the performances. They are excellent, and through them, I believe
we get very genuine observations of what it is like
to be diagnosed with cancer, the thoughts, the decisions, the
conversations that you have to have with your loved ones
around you. And I suppose in a way, just a

(05:04):
little bit of a warning there if this is something
that you have been through, it maybe a little bit triggering,
take some tissues. There is no way that you cannot
fall in love with these two and go on this
rollercoaster ride with them, and it sure produces a few tears.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, Okay, So that's we live in time, showing in
cinemas at the moment.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
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