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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with Ben Oh on ninety six a FM.

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Speaker 2: Hi Ben, Hello.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a girl, so sorry, and I have noticed

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Speaker 1: so I, like most of the females of the world

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Speaker 1: watched Normal People and there was this young fellow, Paul

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Speaker 1: Mescal who is just this unassuming spunk.

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Speaker 2: There is something about you hot right now that we

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Speaker 2: all fell in love with it. Now he's everywhere he

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Speaker 2: is well. He got an Oscar nomination last year for

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Speaker 2: the indie movie After Stunt After Sun, which is an

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Speaker 2: extremely small movie. Not a lot of people watched it

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Speaker 2: until he got that Oscar nomination, and then I think

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Speaker 2: plenty of people did after that. And you know, he

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Speaker 2: played a sort of a troubled dad who was on

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Speaker 2: a holiday with his young daughter. It's a very kind of,

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Speaker 2: you know, poignant, somber film. But he was fantastic in it.

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Speaker 2: And now he's in a new movie. It's a very

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Speaker 2: adaptation of Carmen. And I know les like, sometimes I

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Speaker 2: bring you these blockbusters and transformers and things like that,

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Speaker 2: and I can tell you know, maybe your eyes gloze

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Speaker 2: over a little bit sometimes, but this one, I know

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Speaker 2: you're going to be very interested in. Honestly, because of

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Speaker 2: Paul mescal yea and I can tell you so he

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Speaker 2: plays and the tenuous link Carmen, well, it is tenuous.

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Speaker 2: So the director Benjamin Milpied, French ballet dancer and choreographer

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Speaker 2: whose claim to fame he got too. Claim to fames

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Speaker 2: one was that he was the bloke who choreographed the

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Speaker 2: ballet in Black Swan fantastic, and that's where he met

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Speaker 2: his wife on Natalie Portman. So there you go. So

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Speaker 2: he's Natalie Portman's hubby and this is his first feature.

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Speaker 2: So he set out to make an adaptation of the

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Speaker 2: classic opera Carmen. But as he got in the development process,

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Speaker 2: he realized that he didn't really like the idea of

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Speaker 2: the tragic end of Carmen, where you know, the men

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Speaker 2: who love her think she's so beautiful they can't let

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Speaker 2: her live basically, and they knock her off. He just

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Speaker 2: didn't think that was that was really something that really

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Speaker 2: really floated his boat. In this modern age. It was problematic,

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Speaker 2: it's problematic, but it was a story of its star.

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Speaker 2: Nineteenth century times are different back then, and so he

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Speaker 2: wanted to write a film where Carmen, the central character,

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Speaker 2: comes out on top. Even though similar similar sort of thing, like,

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Speaker 2: she's very central character and a guy sort of completely

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Speaker 2: falls head over heels and kind of, you know, throws

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Speaker 2: away his life and duty, which is what Paul Mescal's

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Speaker 2: character does. So Carmen played by Melissa Barrera from the

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Speaker 2: last two screen movies and In the Heights the musical

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Speaker 2: adaptation of Lin Manuel's musical, and she was great in that.

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Speaker 2: She plays Carmen, a young Mexican woman who's escaping a

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Speaker 2: drug cartel flees illegally into America across the border, which

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Speaker 2: is where she encounters this group of American militia who

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Speaker 2: were patrolling the you know, the border wall, and one

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Speaker 2: of them is Paul Mescal, a return marine who's dealing

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Speaker 2: with PTSD. Kind of a bit mixed up. There's something happens,

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Speaker 2: someone is killed, and Paul Mescal's aidan character and Carmen

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Speaker 2: have to go on the run together despite not really

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Speaker 2: having a lot of trust and respect for each other.

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Speaker 2: But then over time they sort of of course romantic

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Speaker 2: feelings start to develop. They end up in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: in a flamenco club run by Carmen's kind of estranged auntie,

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Speaker 2: who's played by Rossi Depama, who's one of Pedro Moldova's

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Speaker 2: great muses from a Spanish greats. You know, her face

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Speaker 2: is so see and she's amazing this as well, right,

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Speaker 2: and so then it kind of unfolds from there. It's

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Speaker 2: a very conceptual work. That's the one thing I will

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Speaker 2: say about this film. So I guess Benjamin the director

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Speaker 2: has taken a bit of inspiration from Black Swan, where

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Speaker 2: not everything was as it seems. Occasionally they kind of

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Speaker 2: break spontaneously into dance routines, which is not going to

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Speaker 2: be to everybody's taste. Some people are going to watch

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Speaker 2: it and going to find that a bit frustrating. I

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Speaker 2: think that it's not just a more straightforward narrative. But

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Speaker 2: Melissa is phenomenal as calm, and she really is brilliant.

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Speaker 2: And Paul Mescal if you're a Paul Mescal fan, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, be still your beating heart. Like, all I

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Speaker 2: need to tell is there's a scene where he's sitting

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Speaker 2: by a campfire playing an acoustic guitar, singing a song

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Speaker 2: he will melt hearts. And also he's dancing without his

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Speaker 2: shirt on. So there's a few things going on in

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Speaker 2: this film that you might be interested in and it's

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Speaker 2: beautiful shot. It's beautifully shot as well. It was made.

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Speaker 2: It was made in and around Broken Hill in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales. It was it's meant to be Texas and

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, but shot and broken. Do you know why?

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Speaker 2: Because Portman was here shooting thor Love and Thunder. You

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Speaker 2: brought the family over and so Benjamin, Natalie Portman's hubby

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Speaker 2: is like, oh, I guess making my film here as well.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, how many torry adors are you giving to?

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Speaker 2: What a great song? Yes, so it probably doesn't quite

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Speaker 2: get to where it needs to because of the conceptual,

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Speaker 2: but it's so beautiful and performances are great. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to give this a very solid three star. Just let

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Speaker 2: yourself lose yourself. Yeah, I love it. Ridley Scott also

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Speaker 2: loves Sir Paul lovely Gladiator two coming up next year.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks to Thays, guys,