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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from news Talks at.

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Speaker 2: Be Francisca Rudkin our film reviewers here, which it depicts

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Speaker 2: for this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Enough, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we've got two films, both of them showing and

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Speaker 2: cinemas this morning, very different indeed to one another, but

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Speaker 2: let's start off by having a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: Listen to the first one. This is Prime Minister.

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Speaker 3: I have three years to do as much as we can.

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Speaker 3: But in the back of my mind I thought, now,

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Speaker 3: am I going to do this with a baby?

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Speaker 2: I just feel sorry for myself listening to that, because

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Speaker 2: I just have no idea what's coming.

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Speaker 3: There were two groups on the island, those who were

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Speaker 3: evacuated and those close to the eruption. We only have

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Speaker 3: six cases at the moment. This can only be described

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Speaker 3: as a terrorist attack. Crises make governments and they break governments.

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Speaker 2: That is, of course, the voice of JASINDERA durn This

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Speaker 2: is the desindera DRN documentary tell us about Prime Minister Francesca.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think the most important thing you need to

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Speaker 3: know about this film is that if you're looking for

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Speaker 3: an objective examination of her government's policies, the achievements and failures.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to get that here. That wasn't really

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Speaker 3: the intention of the filmmakers or for this film. This

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Speaker 3: is more a This film offers actually something quite unique

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Speaker 3: that we don't see very often. It's very sort of

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Speaker 3: intimate and personal look behind the scenes at the toll.

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Speaker 3: The job takes on a person, and let's be honest,

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Speaker 3: not that you must get to do this job right,

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Speaker 3: so you know, we don't have the experience of what

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Speaker 3: it would be like, and you kind of what we

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Speaker 3: show in here is the unrelenting, cumulative impacts of dealing

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Speaker 3: with some of the biggest tragedies New Zealand's faced in

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Speaker 3: recent times. The film sort of starts off in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four in the US, where the Prime Minister is

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Speaker 3: working at Harvard. She's also starting to work on the

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Speaker 3: memoir and as part of that she's listened to a

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Speaker 3: lot of her political diaries or history projects, and the

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Speaker 3: filmmakers kind of come in and sort of speak her.

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Speaker 3: Lindsay Hoots and Michelle Waltz kind of talk to her about,

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Speaker 3: you know, what it's like for her to go back

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Speaker 3: and listen and reminisce about this and things. I think

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Speaker 3: they could have pushed a little bit further because actually

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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister is pretty candid and it is pretty open,

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Speaker 3: and I think that they could have maybe pushed a

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Speaker 3: little bit further with her to sort of see what

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Speaker 3: else that she would reveal. But and the structure of

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Speaker 3: the documentary is quite straightforward. We kind of go back

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Speaker 3: and we start with, you know, the sort of creating

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Speaker 3: a coalition with Winston Peters, and then we work our

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Speaker 3: way through, you know, her pregnancy in office, the terror attack,

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Speaker 3: you know, the twenty twenty general election for Charlie White

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Speaker 3: Island and of course COVID nineteen. So it kind of

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Speaker 3: texts all those boxes of the things that the Primeister

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Speaker 3: went through, but you know, they were pretty unprecedented things.

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Speaker 3: So but it's quite interesting to go behind the scenes

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Speaker 3: and watch it. I think what makes the documentary is

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Speaker 3: Kurt Gayford very I think, very sensibly kind of when

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Speaker 3: she became Prime Minister, he was kind of looking around,

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Speaker 3: going this is kind of quite crazy. And he's a filmmaker, right, storyteller,

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Speaker 3: and he was walking around. No one's filming this, so

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Speaker 3: he started filming and in little moments behind the scenes

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Speaker 3: and he just kind of kept going and I think

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Speaker 3: that that's the kind of footage and they're the insights

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Speaker 3: that really make this documentary contrary and look, to be

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Speaker 3: honest with you, I quite like having a poke around

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Speaker 3: Premiere House. Quite like seeing you know, the bee hive

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Speaker 3: and what you know. A lot of us were not

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Speaker 3: subjected to that. So yeah, I know that, you know,

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Speaker 3: the potential subjects can be triggering, but if you take

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Speaker 3: a sort of a step back, it is quite an

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Speaker 3: interesting look at the role of leadership and you know,

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Speaker 3: and of what it really entails being a prime minister.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, very interesting. So that is Prime Minister that

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Speaker 2: is showing in cinemas right now. Also showing in cinemas.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the French film Holy cow.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, this is just so delightful. This is a

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Speaker 3: film from a French director, Louise Corvasier, and it was

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Speaker 3: her first, her first feature film, and it was sort

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Speaker 3: of a bit no one sort of really saw it coming,

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Speaker 3: and it turned out to be a huge hat surprise,

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Speaker 3: Hat and Frag that won the Youth Prize it Can

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Speaker 3: and won a couple of season awards and things. It's

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Speaker 3: a social realist drama slash comedy, but it's not grim

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Speaker 3: and gritty. It's actually it's filled with lots of heart

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Speaker 3: and hope and sunshine and things. And we're in the

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Speaker 3: Jura region, so we're in quite a remote rural area.

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Speaker 3: The main characters is eighteen year old teenage boy who's

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Speaker 3: very much an eighteen year old teenage boy as fart

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Speaker 3: as a cheesemaker. He's got a young seven year old sister.

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Speaker 3: His father dies and he is really left to look

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Speaker 3: after this young sister and try and work out how

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Speaker 3: to manage his grief and how to make a living. Essentially,

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Speaker 3: he's really not a ques to deal with what's happened

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Speaker 3: to him. It's a real struggle. But along with some

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Speaker 3: of this friends, he comes up with this pretty unrealistic

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Speaker 3: idea to become an award winning cheesemaker and off we

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Speaker 3: kind of go. What is fabulous about this film, Jack,

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Speaker 3: is that everybody in it none of them are actors.

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Speaker 3: They're non professional actors. Clement for O, who plays touton

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Speaker 3: our main character, he's actually a chicken farmer in real life,

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Speaker 3: and you really get that sense, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: what makes it. There is this sort of authenticity to

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Speaker 3: this story you kind of Yeah, no, it's just really delightful.

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Speaker 3: I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: That sounds really good. Okay, cool here something completely different

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Speaker 2: as well. So that's Holy Cow that is showing in cinemas.

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Speaker 2: That's a French film. Prime Minister as Francisca's first pick

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Speaker 2: for us this week. Thank you so much, Francisca, I

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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