{"id":15636,"date":"2023-04-21T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:57:46","slug":"ramona-2023-victoria-linares-villegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15636","title":{"rendered":"Ramona (2023, Victoria Linares Villegas)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landlady aka Abstract White opened with a nice improv set, as we sat down in front at the Blue Note.  Solid film, made by professionals, unlike certain other things we&#8217;ve seen this week.  Fiction about a pregnant teen runaway hoping to become a movie star.  Lead actress Camila wants to meet actual pregnant teens and have discussions to understand her character.  In the second half of the movie the actually-pregnant kids take over and start playing the roles.  Dominican Republic, all lower-class girls whose moms also got pregnant young and were hoping to break the cycle, but it&#8217;s established that all the local males are shits.  Victoria&#8217;s second feature after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14946\">It Runs in the Family<\/a><\/em>, which she brought back to the fest this year along with a key influence, Makhmalbaf&#8217;s <em>A Moment of Innocence<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landlady aka Abstract White opened with a nice improv set, as we sat down in front at the Blue Note. Solid film, made by professionals, unlike certain other things we&#8217;ve seen this week. Fiction about a pregnant teen runaway hoping to become a movie star. Lead actress Camila wants to meet actual pregnant teens and [&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":[2643,2529,91,2245],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-dominican-republic","tag-filmmaking","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","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=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15650,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/15650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}