June 7, 2024 • 7 mins
Marguerite’s Theorem
When a brilliant mathematics student at France's top university presents her thesis, a mistake shakes the certainty of her planned-out life. She decides to quit everything and start over.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
When their late police captain gets linked to drug cartels, wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett embark on a dangerous mission to clear his name.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
News Talks EDB. You were jactating through to midday twenty
five to ten in time to catch up with our
film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin Kildo.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Two films to talk us through this morning. Let's start
off with one that is showing at the French Film Festival.
Tell us about Marguerite's theorem.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So every festival is one or two characters who you
just love a little bit more than the others, and
Marguerite is a character that I absolutely fell in love with.
She's played by Ala Ulf, who is a French Swiss
actress who won the Rising Star Award at the Savar
Awards sort of like the French Film Awards earlier in
(00:51):
the year. Ben in a film she plays as brilliant
young mathematician and her world crumbles when a new student
at a university signs a flaw in her thesis. So
she's presenting this dissitation which she's spent many many years
dedicating her life too, and it's very quickly all falls apart,
and she kind of falls apart as you would, and
(01:13):
she's deemed overly emotional by her professor, she abruptly quits
the university and she kind of heads out into the
real world for the first time of her life. Because
she's always loved math. She's been in this very academic world,
and she's sort of adorably naive really to the real
world and normal relationships and all this kind of things.
And she's very logical, but she's got this really big,
(01:37):
beautiful brain, and it inevitably does bring her back to mathematics,
but with a whole new perspective that she's gained on
what it means to be human by just getting out
in the world and having a job and making friends
and kind of, you know, discovering a bit of love.
So it's just this lovely coming of ague story that's
a really great journey, fabulously acted. As I say, I
(01:59):
just kind of I got right behind her as a
character and really enjoyed it. So that's frending at the
French Film Festival, which will take place across the country
for the next month or two.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Very good. Okay, now for something completely different. I'm not
sure that this one's necessarily festival bait, but let's have
a listen to bad Boys ride or Die. We now
have evidence that the lead, Captain Conrad Howard, of Miami PD,
was working directly with drug cartels for years.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Captain Howard's being friend.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Don't trust anybody. You're my bad boy, you're my name.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You should be goodful Bye, Bam. Will Smith is Beck.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hey is Beck. This is the fourth installment of this
franchise that started in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I went this with my teenage daughter and we
had a lot of fun. But she walked down too
and said, I don't think there's one thing in that
film that is truthful about being detectives. And I said, Darling,
I think you're probably right. And there's the whole point
that is supposed to be fun and over the top
and ridiculous and corny, but they know they put a
(03:17):
little bit of heart in there as well. They've strong
quite a bit of money at this jack that's around
ninety billion US at this so it looks click, it
looks flash. Of course, it's an action comedy. It's a
buddy cop flick, not the most sophisticated storyline, but you
know what, the action keeps coming, the humor keeps coming,
the entertainment keeps coming. You kind of don't. It's okay, Yeah,
(03:38):
you'll you'll take the plot, you'll take kind of what
you get. Really, this film does race. The success really
does rely on that chemistry between Will Smith and Martin
Lawrence who play these two detectives, Mike and Marcus, and
that's a critical component and they actually do have great chemistry.
Do we actually need another one of these films? No?
(03:59):
Probably not. Did Will Smith lead this film? Yes? I
think he did because he plays an incredibly likable character
who reminds us of this amazing star power. It sort
of enables us to kind of forget some of the
stupid nonsense that's been taking place in Israel life, and
we just remember that when he's on stage. You know,
when he's on screen, he has this incredible star power.
But actually it's probably Laurrance who shines the most. He
(04:22):
gets a lot of the comedy. He's had a near
death experience, but here's a different perspective on life, and
he's quite funny about it and ridiculous. So he kind
of steals the show when it comes to the comedy
sides thing. So it is what it is we are
in blockbuster season is when North America just put out
all the amazing you know, these big entertaining blockbusters, popcorn
films for their summer and we're in the middle of this.
(04:44):
So you know what it is. What it is, You
know what you're going to get when you walk into it. Yeah,
if that's what you're in the mood for, go for it.
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think you can lean in a bit. You can
lean in just for a bit of dumb fun.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Actually, Jack, if you do remember the original, this is
probably closer to the original than the last two films,
which kind of didn't really quite fire. So they've kind
of they've found them. They've got in my Joback.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Is fifty million too much?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh? Of course it is, no, But I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So yeah, if the choice is
fifty million or nothing, you go with the fifteen million. Thanks. Okay,
what about this? If the choice is fifty million or
ten million, what do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You do.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This all? Do you know what I'll take. I'll be honest,
I'll take the fifty because what I could do with
fifty million could be incredible, and I would I would
be the kind of I would probably still tune up
into the Sunday session because I love my show and
I think it would be very good for me to
be grounded to work. But I but there's what I
could do with that, and the people I could help,
And you know, I've got a list of things in
(05:55):
my head that i would absolutely put that money into.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I sort of pictured you behind the wheel of
a late model McLaren or something like that. You know, well,
you know, something under status.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Maybe maybe I would take by Formula one obsessed teenage
daughter to a couple of Formula ones. Okay, that's I
probably would. Actually ten would be absolutely fuck Do you
know what, Jack one million? Absolutely great right now. I'll
take a couple of hundred downs.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. Look, you know, if anyone out there who's listening
right now, who feels burdened by exactly a couple of
volunteers here who are happy to assist anyway they can, Hey,
thank you so much. Those films sound, yeah, diverse at
the very least, but like a lot of fun this morning.
So Bad Boys Ride or Die is the new Will
(06:47):
Smith Martin Lawrence One, the latest in the series of
Bad Boys films, and that showing and cinemas at the moment,
it feels like the kind of movie you do want
to watch in cinemas. You know, it's like bag and
kind of popcorny. The other one, Marguerite's Theorem, is showing
at the French Film Festival at the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen Live
News Talk Set B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
News Talks EDB. You were jactating through to midday twenty
five to ten in time to catch up with our
film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin Kildo.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Two films to talk us through this morning. Let's start
off with one that is showing at the French Film Festival.
Tell us about Marguerite's theorem.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So every festival is one or two characters who you
just love a little bit more than the others, and
Marguerite is a character that I absolutely fell in love with.
She's played by Ala Ulf, who is a French Swiss
actress who won the Rising Star Award at the Savar
Awards sort of like the French Film Awards earlier in
(00:51):
the year. Ben in a film she plays as brilliant
young mathematician and her world crumbles when a new student
at a university signs a flaw in her thesis. So
she's presenting this dissitation which she's spent many many years
dedicating her life too, and it's very quickly all falls apart,
and she kind of falls apart as you would, and
(01:13):
she's deemed overly emotional by her professor, she abruptly quits
the university and she kind of heads out into the
real world for the first time of her life. Because
she's always loved math. She's been in this very academic world,
and she's sort of adorably naive really to the real
world and normal relationships and all this kind of things.
And she's very logical, but she's got this really big,
(01:37):
beautiful brain, and it inevitably does bring her back to mathematics,
but with a whole new perspective that she's gained on
what it means to be human by just getting out
in the world and having a job and making friends
and kind of, you know, discovering a bit of love.
So it's just this lovely coming of ague story that's
a really great journey, fabulously acted. As I say, I
(01:59):
just kind of I got right behind her as a
character and really enjoyed it. So that's frending at the
French Film Festival, which will take place across the country
for the next month or two.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Very good. Okay, now for something completely different. I'm not
sure that this one's necessarily festival bait, but let's have
a listen to bad Boys ride or Die. We now
have evidence that the lead, Captain Conrad Howard, of Miami PD,
was working directly with drug cartels for years.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Captain Howard's being friend.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Don't trust anybody. You're my bad boy, you're my name.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You should be goodful Bye, Bam. Will Smith is Beck.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hey is Beck. This is the fourth installment of this
franchise that started in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I went this with my teenage daughter and we
had a lot of fun. But she walked down too
and said, I don't think there's one thing in that
film that is truthful about being detectives. And I said, Darling,
I think you're probably right. And there's the whole point
that is supposed to be fun and over the top
and ridiculous and corny, but they know they put a
(03:17):
little bit of heart in there as well. They've strong
quite a bit of money at this jack that's around
ninety billion US at this so it looks click, it
looks flash. Of course, it's an action comedy. It's a
buddy cop flick, not the most sophisticated storyline, but you
know what, the action keeps coming, the humor keeps coming,
the entertainment keeps coming. You kind of don't. It's okay, Yeah,
(03:38):
you'll you'll take the plot, you'll take kind of what
you get. Really, this film does race. The success really
does rely on that chemistry between Will Smith and Martin
Lawrence who play these two detectives, Mike and Marcus, and
that's a critical component and they actually do have great chemistry.
Do we actually need another one of these films? No?
(03:59):
Probably not. Did Will Smith lead this film? Yes? I
think he did because he plays an incredibly likable character
who reminds us of this amazing star power. It sort
of enables us to kind of forget some of the
stupid nonsense that's been taking place in Israel life, and
we just remember that when he's on stage. You know,
when he's on screen, he has this incredible star power.
But actually it's probably Laurrance who shines the most. He
(04:22):
gets a lot of the comedy. He's had a near
death experience, but here's a different perspective on life, and
he's quite funny about it and ridiculous. So he kind
of steals the show when it comes to the comedy
sides thing. So it is what it is we are
in blockbuster season is when North America just put out
all the amazing you know, these big entertaining blockbusters, popcorn
films for their summer and we're in the middle of this.
(04:44):
So you know what it is. What it is, You
know what you're going to get when you walk into it. Yeah,
if that's what you're in the mood for, go for it.
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think you can lean in a bit. You can
lean in just for a bit of dumb fun.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Actually, Jack, if you do remember the original, this is
probably closer to the original than the last two films,
which kind of didn't really quite fire. So they've kind
of they've found them. They've got in my Joback.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Is fifty million too much?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh? Of course it is, no, But I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So yeah, if the choice is
fifty million or nothing, you go with the fifteen million. Thanks. Okay,
what about this? If the choice is fifty million or
ten million, what do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You do.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This all? Do you know what I'll take. I'll be honest,
I'll take the fifty because what I could do with
fifty million could be incredible, and I would I would
be the kind of I would probably still tune up
into the Sunday session because I love my show and
I think it would be very good for me to
be grounded to work. But I but there's what I
could do with that, and the people I could help,
And you know, I've got a list of things in
(05:55):
my head that i would absolutely put that money into.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I sort of pictured you behind the wheel of
a late model McLaren or something like that. You know, well,
you know, something under status.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Maybe maybe I would take by Formula one obsessed teenage
daughter to a couple of Formula ones. Okay, that's I
probably would. Actually ten would be absolutely fuck Do you
know what, Jack one million? Absolutely great right now. I'll
take a couple of hundred downs.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. Look, you know, if anyone out there who's listening
right now, who feels burdened by exactly a couple of
volunteers here who are happy to assist anyway they can, Hey,
thank you so much. Those films sound, yeah, diverse at
the very least, but like a lot of fun this morning.
So Bad Boys Ride or Die is the new Will
(06:47):
Smith Martin Lawrence One, the latest in the series of
Bad Boys films, and that showing and cinemas at the moment,
it feels like the kind of movie you do want
to watch in cinemas. You know, it's like bag and
kind of popcorny. The other one, Marguerite's Theorem, is showing
at the French Film Festival at the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen Live
News Talk Set B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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