{"id":12020,"date":"2017-05-20T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:46:30","slug":"their-finest-2016-lone-scherfig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12020","title":{"rendered":"Their Finest (2016, Lone Scherfig)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right after I watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11987\">Five Came Back<\/a><\/em>, here&#8217;s its inverse: British documentary filmmaker is asked by the war office to make a rousing feature, since nobody enjoys newsreels.  Columnist Gemma Arterton (<em>The Girl With All The Gifts<\/em>, <em>Byzantium<\/em>) is hired as screenwriter, and washed-up detective-franchise star Bill Nighy as actor, and the movie mostly follows Gemma as she tries to make good work while falling for her cowriter Sam Claflin (a fantasy\/action franchise specialist), while breaking up with her not-really-husband Jack Huston (John&#8217;s grandson &#8211; another <em>Five Came Back<\/em> connection!).<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s fine, with some weird choices (near the end everything gets bright and quiet when Claflin is killed by some rickety film equipment), some in-fashion feminism, and the same old &#8220;yay, people who helped the WWII war effort&#8221; which is starting to give me the sinking feeling that that&#8217;s the last time people worked together for the common good &#8211; since then it&#8217;s been harsh wars and solo heroes.  Original novel title <em>Their Finest Hour and a Half<\/em> was lots better, written by a TV writer\/producer.  Director Scherfig made <em>An Education<\/em>, which I thought was supposed to be good, but apparently not good enough to make my must-see list.  I&#8217;ll be seeing at least one more Battle of Dunkirk movie this year &#8211; wonder how it&#8217;ll compare.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Nighy is great, and refreshingly not dead (I got him confused with Alan Rickman).  Erlich: &#8220;Alas, the lanky British baritone has no business being the standout of a story that exists in order to celebrate the value of female storytellers; Bill Nighy is many things, but a woman isn&#8217;t one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right after I watched Five Came Back, here&#8217;s its inverse: British documentary filmmaker is asked by the war office to make a rousing feature, since nobody enjoys newsreels. Columnist Gemma Arterton (The Girl With All The Gifts, Byzantium) is hired as screenwriter, and washed-up detective-franchise star Bill Nighy as actor, and the movie mostly follows [&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":[1049,1081,91,2270,472],"class_list":["post-12020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bill-nighy","tag-filmmaking","tag-lone-scherfig","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020","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=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12043,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions\/12043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}