{"id":10761,"date":"2016-01-16T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2016-01-15T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:07:00","slug":"queen-of-earth-2015-alex-ross-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10761","title":{"rendered":"Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine (Elisabeth Moss of <em>Top of the Lake<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9789\">Listen Up Philip<\/a><\/em>) and Virginia (Katherine Waterston, the troubled ex in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9761\">Inherent Vice<\/a><\/em>) spend a week at Virginia&#8217;s lake house to bond while Cath is recovering from a breakup.  They&#8217;re shitty friends though, and the presence of neighbor Rich (Patrick Fugit, main rock groupie kid in <em>Almost Famous<\/em>) makes Cath crazy &#8211; although she doesn&#8217;t seem to need much outside help to go crazy.  The movie flashes back to the previous summer when they were joined by Cath&#8217;s ex James (Kentucker Audley of <em>Christmas Again<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Great atmosphere, shot by Perry&#8217;s usual DP Sean Price Williams and edited by Robert &#8220;<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10740\">Actress<\/a><\/em>&#8221; Greene, and the actors are fun to watch even if their characters are unbearable.  More enjoyable on a moment-to-moment basis than <em>Listen Up Philip<\/em>, I suppose, without the sharp power of that one&#8217;s ending.  Cameo by Kate Lyn Sheil towards the end.<\/p>\n<p>M. D&#8217;Angelo called it <em>Random Creepy Affectation: The Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>J. Cronk in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At once a character study in the guise of a psychosexual thriller and a parable of friendship filtered through a prism of horror tropes, the film is, perhaps more significantly, a harrowing depiction of depression and the debilitating effects of hereditary paralysis. &#8230; Like a lot of Perry&#8217;s characters, these women are almost comically mean-spirited as they verbally disarm the opposing party with exceptional eloquence.  &#8220;One of the worst tendencies of human nature is to assume the best of one another,&#8221; Virginia matter-of-factly states in the film&#8217;s centrepiece sequence, an unbroken six-minute shot which subtly interrogates each woman as they painfully detail instances of past romance and betrayal, effectively encapsulating Perry&#8217;s entire worldview in one bravura gesture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine (Elisabeth Moss of Top of the Lake and Listen Up Philip) and Virginia (Katherine Waterston, the troubled ex in Inherent Vice) spend a week at Virginia&#8217;s lake house to bond while Cath is recovering from a breakup. They&#8217;re shitty friends though, and the presence of neighbor Rich (Patrick Fugit, main rock groupie kid in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1689,1924],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alex-ross-perry","tag-elisabeth-moss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10809,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}