{"id":16199,"date":"2024-02-16T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16199"},"modified":"2024-02-16T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:52:53","slug":"queens-of-the-qing-dynasty-2022-ashley-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16199","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indie-stilted drama with amazing music.  A world of screens with <em>Superjail<\/em> pencil tests on every one of them.  Suicidal Star bonds with counselor An.  He passes his citizenship test.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/qing1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Per Adam Nayman in Cinema Scope, &#8220;These characters feel unique to Canadian cinema, contemporary, micro-budget, or otherwise, and the actors inhabit them to the point where they don&#8217;t really seem to be acting at all &#8230; the slightly surrealist weave of images is heightened by the tour-de-force soundscaping of Andreas Mandritzki, who interlaces Autechre-ish electronica with musique concrete and stylized foley work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The director:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With my shorts and with <em>Werewolf<\/em> I was really inspired by my environment, its working-class history and textures.  The logical representation of that was a social-realist film made in a verit\u00e9 style.  That style fit my other movies well, and made a lot of practical sense too, but I did start to feel like it was limiting the way I thought about crafting characters, building scenes, and writing dialogue.  Then Star and An started to emerge as complex, vibrant, and talkative creatures, and naturalism couldn&#8217;t contain them: their creative ways of conceptualizing and expressing themselves necessitated that I find new ways to engage.  The entire movie is a sort of experiment in burrowing into their brains and vibing on their frequency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/qing2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie-stilted drama with amazing music. A world of screens with Superjail pencil tests on every one of them. Suicidal Star bonds with counselor An. He passes his citizenship test. Per Adam Nayman in Cinema Scope, &#8220;These characters feel unique to Canadian cinema, contemporary, micro-budget, or otherwise, and the actors inhabit them to the point where [&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":[2643,3197,391,2978],"class_list":["post-16199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-ashley-mckenzie","tag-canada","tag-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199","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=16199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16199\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}