{"id":12096,"date":"2017-06-12T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:08:40","slug":"orleans-2012-virgil-vernier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12096","title":{"rendered":"Orl\u00e9ans (2012, Virgil Vernier)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ancient maps and drawings and texts about Joan of Arc &#8211; good timing, since I was just reading about Bruno Dumont&#8217;s new Joan movie before putting this on.  Then a half hour spent at a strip club (or exotic pole-dancing, if there&#8217;s a difference).  The girls spend most of their time trying to uncomfortably (to me) hard-sell patrons to join them in the expensive private cabins.  In private conversations we learn this is a job where girls tend to stay too long, as we&#8217;ve recently seen in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11923\">LoveTrue<\/a><\/em>.  &#8220;But in my case I know this is only temporary,&#8221; says the new girl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/orleans1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>New Girl and her mentor finally venture out into town and meet the girl playing Joan in the town celebrations, spending a moment alone with her horse in the woods.  They go to the parade to see their new friend in all her glory, then wander to a church&#8230; it&#8217;s all pretty low-key, a pillow-film between more substantial <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12090\">LNKarno<\/a> screenings, but it ends the way all movies should end: telling secrets to a falcon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/orleans2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A hybrid-documentary, it turns out.  Vernier looks prolific, and his <em>Mercuriales<\/em> appears to be a similar sort of movie.  Of the actors, I&#8217;m only seeing that Damien Bonnard later starred in <em>Staying Vertical<\/em>&#8230; but who was he, a strip club patron?  If so, you could barely make him out under the murky red lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ancient maps and drawings and texts about Joan of Arc &#8211; good timing, since I was just reading about Bruno Dumont&#8217;s new Joan movie before putting this on. Then a half hour spent at a strip club (or exotic pole-dancing, if there&#8217;s a difference). The girls spend most of their time trying to uncomfortably [&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":[1049,239,236,93,927,2289],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-birds","tag-dance","tag-documentary","tag-joan-of-arc","tag-virgil-vernier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","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=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}