Green Guide's Critical View
The Age
Tuesday March 22, 2011
FREE TO AIRRAISING HOPEEleven, 8.30pmTHIS delightfully nutty comedy from the creator of My Name Is Earl also does its bit to give white trash a good name. The loving Chance family is happily, proudly working class and observations of their values and lifestyle are both acute and affectionate. Single dad Jimmy (Lucas Neff) is doing his best to raise his adorable baby daughter Hope. In a gem of a story, Jimmy decides a home-video camera to record milestone moments of Hope's life is essential and a typical Chance clan brand of madness ensues. DEBI ENKERPAY TVSUPERSIZE V SUPERSKINNY KIDSLifeStyle You, 9.30pmCONCERNED doctor Christian Jessen is back for another diet-intervention series, this one focusing on children. Turns out that one in six kids in Britain is obese. Welsh lad Leuan is one of them at just 15, he weighs a whopping 107 kilograms. His mother is seriously ill with diabetes and he knows he's headed the same way. Leuan is paired with Jess, 13, who, at about 42 kilograms, is seriously underweight. Leuan and his mum and Jess and her dad learn about nutrition and taste-test foods they'd usually avoid. The show is well thought out and Jessen holds the parents to account, too. BRAD NEWSOMEMOVIEBREATH (2007)SBS One, 11.35pmYEON (Park Ji-a) stays at home all day, descending deeper into depression. She feels remote from her little daughter and even more so from her husband. Writer-director Kim Ki-duk takes audiences to places most movies never consider, with Yeon becoming obsessed with the coming execution of Jang Jin (Chang Chen) and visiting the prison where he lives in spartan horror. The surprise and joy of the film are best experienced with no foreknowledge. That way they have a chance of engaging the viewer's senses as much as Jang Jin's. A challenging film, not to be missed by lovers of art cinema. SCOTT MURRAY
© 2011 The Age
