Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Since Bridget Jones made her big-screen debut in 2001, newspaper think pieces have looked to Helen Fielding\u2019s creation as a gauge of the condition of contemporary women \u2014 a metric of anxieties about social pressures, body image, the difficulty of choosing suitable partners or the right size knickers. A quarter of a century on, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy turns its attention to issues of child-raising, bereavement and pulling hot younger men.Here, Bridget (Ren\u00e9e Zellweger) has recently lost her husband Mark (a briefly glimpsed Colin Firth), killed in Darfur. Raising her son and daughter alone, Bridget is worn down by her friends\u2019 well-meaning but contradictory advice. Eventually, though, she moves on \u2014 and into the arms of hunky young parkkeeper\/biochemist Roxster (Leo Woodall). As with Nicole Kidman in Babygirl and Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You, younger men are the match of the moment, provided they\u2019re intelligent, super-presentable and \u2014 in this case \u2014 able to impress their date\u2019s chums with tricks like the show-stopping rescue of a small dog. Meanwhile, don\u2019t discount schoolteacher Mr Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), stern, over-disciplined but under whose unchic jacket may beat a tender heart.This fourth movie in the series is predictably smug, taking place in a hermetically sealed, dirt-free Hampstead of the soul. But it offers the odd snappy line, such as Bridget\u2019s response when Roxster makes a polite advance: \u201cAh, the generation that asks.\u201d There are nice sober performances from Ejiofor and Emma Thompson. Best of all is Hugh Grant (who by now must have \u201cvalue for money\u201d inscribed in Latin on his coat of arms) as Bridget\u2019s old beau, Daniel, now an avuncular, rather sad rou\u00e9. Zellweger, though, is distractingly mannered and given to bizarre facial contortions, as though Bridget is these days taking her Chardonnay with a ketamine chaser.\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606In UK cinemas from February 14 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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