{"id":14893,"date":"2022-04-09T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14893"},"modified":"2022-04-09T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:21:15","slug":"el-planeta-2021-amalia-ulman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14893","title":{"rendered":"El Planeta (2021, Amalia Ulman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cute low-budget movie, black and white with star wipes, the sound cutting out during close-ups.  Leo (played by our director) is an out-of-work stylist, picking up men online for money (guy at a cafe says he wants to be pissed on this tuesday, and won&#8217;t pay much) while her mom (played by her mom) stays home and puts curses on her enemies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/elplaneta1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When they go out, mom shoplifts and puts meals at the titular restaurant on the tabs of local politicians.  Leo flirts with Chen Zhou (<em>The Cloud in Her Room<\/em>), goes home with him, then finds out he&#8217;s married.  Both women have their pains and need pampering, seem like fun little frauds though they are in real trouble, basically homeless.  Mom doesn&#8217;t tell her daughter when the police finally come for her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/elplaneta2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/elplaneta3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Watched this for being Vadim Rizov&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/110852-sundance-2021-critics-notebook-3-el-planeta-luzzu-taming-the-garden\/\">reported<\/a> highlight of Sundance 2021.  That&#8217;s the one I &#8220;attended&#8221; fourteen months ago, tho it seems longer.  What would be my highlights&#8230; mostly the obvious choices: <\/p>\n<p><em>Summer of Soul<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In the Same Breath<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Strawberry Mansion<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All Light, Everywhere<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cryptozoo<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faya Dayi<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In the Earth<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Sparks Brothers<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Passing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still want to see:<br \/>\n<em>The Pink Cloud<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I Was a Simple Man<\/em><br \/>\n<em>On the Count of Three<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Cursed \/ Eight for Silver<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Judas and the Black Messiah<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The World to Come<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Users<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Flee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute low-budget movie, black and white with star wipes, the sound cutting out during close-ups. Leo (played by our director) is an out-of-work stylist, picking up men online for money (guy at a cafe says he wants to be pissed on this tuesday, and won&#8217;t pay much) while her mom (played by her mom) stays [&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":[2643,2999,189,1246],"class_list":["post-14893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-amalia-ulman","tag-spain","tag-sundance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893","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=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}