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Speaker 3: to teen on News Talks at B, which means it's

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Speaker 3: time to get your film pics for this weekend. Francisca Radkin,

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Speaker 3: our film reviewer, is here this morning. Hey Francisca, good morning. Okay,

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Speaker 3: we've got two films, both of them showing in cinemas

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Speaker 3: this morning, so let's start off by having a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a listen to the Salt Path. What is

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Speaker 3: it five hundred miles?

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Speaker 4: Oh like six hundred?

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Speaker 2: Are you walking the path yesterday?

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Speaker 3: It's a long old hike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, retired homeless. Actually you're ready. I can't legs, but

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Speaker 2: often that good go.

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Speaker 3: This has the great Jillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs tell

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Speaker 3: us about the whole path.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, you know that I love a good walk,

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Speaker 4: don't you, Jack?

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Speaker 3: You usually run your walks that's the difference.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's absolutely beautiful up in the white taxes,

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Speaker 4: this srning if you look for something to do, if you're.

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Speaker 3: Ant, I mean what I have ridiculous to even start

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Speaker 3: off with a with a brag like that, you've already

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Speaker 3: you've already been out. Yeah, I haven't even broken ten am,

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Speaker 3: and Francis has already made her way up into the

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Speaker 3: white tack and she's done. I'm probably she's probably done,

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Speaker 3: like a half marathon or something like that. It's a short,

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Speaker 3: and there's not all all the regular here's an oxymoron.

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Speaker 3: A short ten a.

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Speaker 4: Short t Now look to the film so but it

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Speaker 4: will make you want to go walking. It's this film

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Speaker 4: is based on the Southwest Coast Path and Southwest England,

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Speaker 4: six hundred and thirty miles, but it's also a film

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Speaker 4: about a middle aged couple who lose their home. They

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Speaker 4: lose their farm through a bad investment. The kids are

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Speaker 4: off studying and working and so the kids are sort

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Speaker 4: of able to look after themselves a bit, but they

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Speaker 4: find themselves homeless and they're living on a benefit which

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Speaker 4: is forty pounds a week, and they have no idea

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Speaker 4: what they're going to do and how they're going to survive,

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Speaker 4: and they come up with this idea they'll go, They'll

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Speaker 4: just walk. They'll walk and they'll camp on this track.

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Speaker 4: Win and Moth are the names of these people. This

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Speaker 4: is actually based on Win's book that she wrote about

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Speaker 4: Sorry Rayner's book ray Want to Win, her book that

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Speaker 4: she wrote about the Walk, and so it's based on

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Speaker 4: a true story. Moth has also just been had a

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Speaker 4: terminal diagnosis and he's actually really struggling to walk. So

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Speaker 4: he's got this kind of very very rare disease and

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Speaker 4: things and it's terminal and things don't look good, and

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Speaker 4: yet they still go, this is our only option. Beautiful

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Speaker 4: performances by the two. There is absolutely no vanity in

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Speaker 4: their portrayal of these characters. You know, they are just

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Speaker 4: You see them become very windblowing and sun burnt as

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Speaker 4: you would expect. The scenery is beautiful, as you would expect.

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Speaker 4: But what I loved about this story is it's kind

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Speaker 4: of really it's a bit of a love story. Actually,

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Speaker 4: it's very touching. It's about two people who find themselves

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Speaker 4: in a really difficult situation, who embrace their adversity and

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Speaker 4: kind of get on with it, and you see all

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Speaker 4: the nuances of this challenge. You see the physical difficulties,

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Speaker 4: you see it, you know, obviously homelessness, and then when

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Speaker 4: winter arrives, the helplessness they feel when it comes to

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Speaker 4: their children and not being there for them and the

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Speaker 4: hopelessness of their situation. And as time goes by, you know,

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Speaker 4: walking they sort of become at one with nature, they

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Speaker 4: break over winter, they kind of look at each other

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Speaker 4: and go, actually, we need to be on this. We

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Speaker 4: need to be walking, We need to be on this part.

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Speaker 4: So not the scenery does do a lot of work

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Speaker 4: for this film, but I think it's the performances that

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Speaker 3: Okay, great, Okay, And that's the salt path. I do

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Speaker 3: love Jillian Anderson so alone.

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Speaker 4: She's beautiful in that. She really is fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So that's the salt path that showing in cinemas.

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Speaker 3: Also showing in cinemas something completely different. Final Destination, Bloodlines.

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Speaker 2: Family.

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Speaker 4: You don't get to pick the one you get, just

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Speaker 4: gotta love the one you got.

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Speaker 2: It death is coming for our family, right well, it sounds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So normally by the time you get to a sixth

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Speaker 4: film and a franchise, Jack, I'm losing interesting. But interestingly,

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Speaker 4: there might just be life in this franchise yet. This

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Speaker 4: is the sixth film. It's been going for twenty five years.

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Speaker 4: It's been fourteen years without a new movie, so I

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Speaker 4: was quite intrigued to see what they did here. And

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't call it so much a reboot, but they

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Speaker 4: have kind of tried to put a bit of a

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Speaker 4: twist on the formula, the Final Destination formula, and they've

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Speaker 4: also kind of the films have often always been very standalone,

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Speaker 4: but they have made some lovely connections here back to

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Speaker 4: previous films, but you don't need to have seen any

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Speaker 4: of them. It opens in the sixties. This young couple

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Speaker 4: head to this new Skyview restaurant, which is like the

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Speaker 4: Sky Tower in Aukland. They're going up the elevator and

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Speaker 4: they're told that the tower was completed ahead of time,

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Speaker 4: which makes Iris a little bit concerned that maybe that's

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Speaker 4: not such a good thing. And as the night wears on,

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Speaker 4: the dance for in this restaurant gives way Jack, leading

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Speaker 4: to the most gruesome series of deaths as the tower collapses.

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Speaker 4: And I should probably say at this point, look, the

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Speaker 4: Final Destination films are all about how a small series

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Speaker 4: of events like flipping a coin off the top of

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Speaker 4: this tower can lead to massive traumatic accidences, accidents, and

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Speaker 4: you know, and they are known for very creative, gruesome death.

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Speaker 4: This film loves to be gory but also really funny,

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Speaker 4: and death is kind of a main unseen character in

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Speaker 4: these films, so that's kind of that's the way they roll.

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Speaker 4: But this restaurant scene is both a premonition and a dream.

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Speaker 4: A dream. So Iris has this premonition in the sixties

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Speaker 4: many years later, is having the same dream as well.

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Speaker 4: And what happens is that if you cheat death, death

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Speaker 4: does not forget that and death will come after you.

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Speaker 4: And Stefani, like her grandmother, Iris, can see it in

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Speaker 4: the universe and feel death coming. Oh it's totally batty

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Speaker 4: and just great son. So she works out the Iris. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so Iris didn't die, but now the whole family does

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Speaker 4: have to die, and they have to stop trying and

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Speaker 4: find a way to prevent that from happening. They have

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Speaker 4: to cheat death again. Look once again, the deaths are ghastly,

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Speaker 4: really imaginative. I laughed as much as I kind of

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Speaker 4: flail balms around. Right in this film, there's as many

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Speaker 4: frights as there are lives. And actually, I'm going to

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Speaker 4: give them some credit here. I think they've actually done

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Speaker 4: a really good job of bringing you know, bringing this

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Speaker 4: bringing this franchise back and entertaining the audience who have

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Speaker 4: loved it for twenty five years.

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Speaker 3: Oh very good. Okay, that's Final Destination blood Lines, Francisca's

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Speaker 3: first film, The Salt Path. Both of those are in

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Speaker 3: cinemas at the moment, and we'll put all of the

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Speaker 3: details up on the news talks. He'd be website. Thank you, Francisca.

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Speaker 3: You will let you just go and I don't know,

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Speaker 3: do an ultra marathon this afternoon or something just really

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Speaker 3: casual and chill like that. Oh she's gone, there's it,

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Speaker 3: she's on the track. You see, this is the problem.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget if you feel like, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 3: after watching Final Destination blood Lines you feel like something

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Speaker 3: just a little bit different. The French Film Festival is

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Speaker 3: kicking off later this month from Keddy Kendy to duned

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Speaker 3: and there are going to be twenty three films showing

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Speaker 3: French Film Festival twenty twenty five.

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