{"id":17042,"date":"2024-12-26T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17042"},"modified":"2024-12-25T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T19:51:17","slug":"curling-2010-denis-cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17042","title":{"rendered":"Curling (2010, Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cote loves shallow-focus shots (so do I).  Watching this reminds me that his <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14811\">covid movie<\/a> came out a hundred years ago, and Soderbergh&#8217;s is still not out?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/curling1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Odd-jobs guy is over-sheltering his 12 year-old.  Each of them finds dead bodies in the snow and keeps it as a secret: dad hides his body in the abandoned motel like <em>The Wire<\/em> season 4 and the daughter hangs out and chats with hers in a frozen field.  They seem nice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/curling2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Director and actor won prizes at Locarno, where it played with fellow chilly films <em>Winter Vacation<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14116\">Cold Weather<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4t\u00e9 in Cinema Scope 44:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People ask me, &#8220;Why curling?&#8221;  Well, first of all, curling is a collective sport, so he could get closer to his community if he would curl. The moment he hears about curling, there&#8217;s a spark in his eyes &#8211; the only positive thing in his life during the whole film is curling &#8230; The film is very simple: how do you connect with the world of the living?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cote loves shallow-focus shots (so do I). Watching this reminds me that his covid movie came out a hundred years ago, and Soderbergh&#8217;s is still not out? Odd-jobs guy is over-sheltering his 12 year-old. Each of them finds dead bodies in the snow and keeps it as a secret: dad hides his body in the [&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":[1049,1219,391,3359,1719],"class_list":["post-17042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bowling","tag-canada","tag-curling","tag-denis-cote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042","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=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17129,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions\/17129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}