Francesca Rudkin: Eternity and Twiggy

Eternity  

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with, and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. 

  

Twiggy  

A portrait of international supermodel, actor, singer and iconic British figure, Twiggy. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
That is Alex Warren and Ordinary. That song has just
topped Spotify's list for the most streamed tracks in New
Zealand this year. Lab top the local list with their
song in the year not Bad. I don't think I
would have picked Ordinary. Actually it's been the number one
stream song, but there you go. I'm always about three
years behind the behind the times when it comes to
what's calling the music front. Anyway, twenty two ten, Time

(00:58):
to get your film picks for this weekend. Francesca Rudkin,
our movie reviewer, is here with her two picks this weekend.
Hey Francesca, good morning. Le Ed's begin with a movie
showing in cinemas. This is Eternity.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You've passed away? Larry, who are?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
And I'm your after life cording? That's not a job.
And this is the junction where you choose one place
to spend eternity and who to spend it with?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
John?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
John you did?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh okay, tell us about Eternity.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
This is just such a fun film. I love the premise.
I think romantic comedies fell into a little bit of
a trap of becoming these kind of cookie cut of films,
and they were all sort of the same, and we judged,
you know, a romantic comedy on whether it was as
good as the last one we saw. And what we've
been seeing a little bit recently is some really great
directors going. Actually, there's so much more to this genre

(02:00):
and we can have we can have so much more
fun with it, and we can also have some quite
good discussions, you know, within a romantic comedy. And this
film Eternity is by the director David Freen and he
found it on Blacklist and Blacklist Jack is you probably know,
it's kind of an annual list of the best unsold
new screenplays they're available in Hollywood. So these are the

(02:21):
screenplays that haven't been picked up by a studio or
an independent studio and things and people go on and
they find them and then you kind of bid for
them and you try and get the rights to them.
And David just love the story and I can completely
see why. It's just this really original premise. He's cast
it beautifully, got great performances, it's full of which It's

(02:42):
got some epic love stories as well, and a little
bit of an existential crisis, but it's this nice mix
of both fun and light but as well as being
sort of moving and a little bit different, so it
remains a bit more memorable. So basically, when you die,
you go to a transferred junket in a way, you die,

(03:02):
you wake up on a train. You get to this
massive train station and you get to the center and
your house there for seven days while you decide where
you were going to spend eternity. And it's very cleverly done.
It's like a whole lot of hotels. Then in the
middle it's like a conference. Everyone's got their booths trying
to sell you on their worlds. You know, there's Beach

(03:23):
World or Romance World or Studio fifty four World or
anything goes eternity if you need a safe word. It's
got amusing the Men Free World, but that was already
booked up. You could go to Paris in the thirties,
you could go to Germany in the thirties, but it's
before the Nazis. There are no Nazis, so they created
all these worlds that you might want to go and
spend eternity in. And you've got seven days to choose,
and when you turn up to this junction, this center,

(03:49):
you arrive as you were at your most happiest. So
our two characters here, Larry and Jane. In the nineties,
Larry dies suddenly he ends up at the junction. He
knows Joones really sick and that she's going to arrive soon,
so he gets a job and hang around instead of
choosing an eternity, waits for her. She arrives. Now they

(04:10):
both arrived sort of young when they met, so they're
played by Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Taller. But what and
Miles Taller? Who is Larry? He's waiting for his wife,
Joan to come. They've had sixty five years together, they've
raised kids. Of course they're going to spend a tunaty together.
But this plan has gone into a little bit of
disarray because also waiting at the junction is Joan's first

(04:34):
fiance who died in a war sixty years ago, and
he has been waiting for her. So all of a
sudden she has to make this decision. Do I spend
eternity with this man that I didn't get to live
a life with that we had this beautiful young romance
that I didn't get to experience life with Do I
live that with him? Or do I go with the

(04:55):
man that I've been with for sixty plus odd years
and we've raised a family and I keep sung. And
that's the premise of this film. I watched this film
about a week and a half ago, and I still
cannot pick what Eternity would go and live in. You
can't change eternity, so you get stuck in it. If
you try and escape, you end up in a black void.
So it's just delightful. There's there's there's lots to ponder.

(05:16):
It gets very moving. My only complaint with this film, Jack,
is they just didn't quite know how to wrap it up.
I don't have an issue with how it ended, how
the story ended, it just dragged too long and I
was like, no, no, come on, guys, this is this
is this is beautiful, this is great. This has been
such fun, but we're dragging this out now and we
need to wrap it up. So that would be my
only complaint. But if you like something about different and

(05:38):
great performances by everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, okay, cool. So that's Eternity that's showing in cinemas.
Next up, also showing in cinemas, a documentary this is.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Twiggy, something that we had not ever seen before, and.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Her name came like a lightning. Tweek, Trigg Twiggy Tweek,
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
David Bote just sack right name.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, As the name suggests, this is a documentary about Twiggy.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yes, it is a very warm, celebratory documentary. I learned
a lot about Twiggy. It doesn't matter how old you are.
Everybody knows that she was this massive fashion disruptor of
this model that changed the face of fashion, became world
famous literally in about three to six weeks. It's a
great story. What I didn't know was that she then
went on to do musical film and TV shows and

(06:36):
all sorts of things, and it's had this incredible career
and the attitude that she brings to it is just delightful.
She didn't really plan any of it. She wasn't hugely ambitious.
She just kind of took opportunities, worked really hard, took
everything in her stride. Nothing was a problem. Like It's
just really refreshing watching this film and I learned an
awful lot about her as well. It's a film by

(06:57):
Sadie Frost has put this documentary together excellent.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Okay, cool, So that's Twiggy that's in cinemas. Francisca's first
film is Eternity, that's also showing at the movies, and
all of the details for those films up at NEWSTALKZEDB,
dot co dot MZ.

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