{"id":12525,"date":"2018-03-15T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:23:25","slug":"november-2017-rainer-sarnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12525","title":{"rendered":"November (2017, Rainer Sarnet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought we were seeing a one-off screening of a movie that had bypassed our town in limited release, but it turns out perhaps it was an advance screening, and it&#8217;ll open here eventually?  Either way, if cult movies still exist, this one would appear to qualify.  It&#8217;s got the photography of those stark, perfectly-lit black-and-white Eurasian films (see also: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6842\">The Virgin Spring<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7168\">The Turin Horse<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9276\">Hard to be a God<\/a><\/em>) blending mythology with harsh reality, a romantic love story with devil-dealing &#8211; plus ghosts that turn into giant chickens, and farming implements (and snowmen) possessed with slave souls.  And humor!<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s director Sarnet&#8217;s third feature &#8211; his last one was a Dostoevsky adaptation.  Gratified that I didn&#8217;t recognize Baron Dieter Laser from <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4619\">the other shit<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought we were seeing a one-off screening of a movie that had bypassed our town in limited release, but it turns out perhaps it was an advance screening, and it&#8217;ll open here eventually? Either way, if cult movies still exist, this one would appear to qualify. It&#8217;s got the photography of those stark, perfectly-lit [&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":[842,431,110,2388,2387,63],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-devil","tag-estonia","tag-ghosts","tag-mythology","tag-rainer-sarnet","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","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=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12549,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}