{"id":11983,"date":"2017-05-12T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:42:55","slug":"american-honey-2016-andrea-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11983","title":{"rendered":"American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking off Cannes Month with last year’s jury prize-winning tale of misfit youth, shot in the People’s Aspect Ratio of 4:3. After finding love in a hopeless place (wal-mart), Sasha Lane dumps two kids onto a woman line-dancing to Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” (“they ARE yours”), sneaks away from her boyfriend (husband? stepdad?) and joins hottie Jake (Shia LaBeouf, last seen in Nymphomaniac<\/a><\/em>) on the road, selling magazines for group leader Krystal (one-note villainous Riley Keough, of Fury Road<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

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The characters are all useless, but as far as capturing a certain vibe\/mood and creating visual energy with the camerawork, it’s a pretty swell movie, keeping me going for all three (!) hours despite some groanworthy choices (“Dream Baby Dream” when they talk about their dreams – later the new girl in Sasha’s place is named Drema).<\/p>\n

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Time Out:<\/p>\n

There are so many extraordinary moments, beautiful shots and intoxicating rushes of pure teenage adrenalin, that it’s all the more frustrating when … American Honey<\/em> stops short of being more than a fitfully exciting, occasionally trying and undoubtedly overlong experiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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M. D’Angelo:<\/p>\n

It works best as a rowdy ensemble piece \u2014 sort of a co-ed, mobile, present-day version of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some<\/a><\/em>, examining the frayed bonds created among newly formed adults with few responsibilities and a dynamic torn between loyalty and rivalry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kicking off Cannes Month with last year’s jury prize-winning tale of misfit youth, shot in the People’s Aspect Ratio of 4:3. After finding love in a hopeless place (wal-mart), Sasha Lane dumps two kids onto a woman line-dancing to Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” (“they ARE yours”), sneaks away from her boyfriend (husband? stepdad?) and joins […]<\/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":[1049,2262,2048],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-andrea-arnold","tag-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","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=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12017,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}