{"id":17460,"date":"2025-04-14T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17460"},"modified":"2025-04-12T22:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:54:55","slug":"the-empire-2024-bruno-dumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17460","title":{"rendered":"The Empire (2024, Bruno Dumont)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mythology of warring intergalactic races (the evil Zeroes and noble Ones) battling for control of the hearts of humanity is cheesy even for Dumont, but his French countryside weirdos-getting-exponentially-weirder schtick is on point.  Both sides are pretty ramshackle, the antichrist kid Freddy is pretty easily kidnapped then re-kidnapped.  If you follow the characters and story, it&#8217;s all deflated and lame &#8211; the long pauses and awkwardness and mismatched performances are the whole show.  The space forces collide, forming a black hole over Earth which annihilates all of them and the police car belonging to Team <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11105\">Quinquin<\/a> &#8211; Carpentier gets all the dialogue, the Captain now too twitchy to handle anything else.  Elsewhere, the cellphone demon was in the latest <em>Three Musketeers<\/em> reboot, angel Jane in the latest <em>Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/empire1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/empire2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/empire3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/empire4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mythology of warring intergalactic races (the evil Zeroes and noble Ones) battling for control of the hearts of humanity is cheesy even for Dumont, but his French countryside weirdos-getting-exponentially-weirder schtick is on point. Both sides are pretty ramshackle, the antichrist kid Freddy is pretty easily kidnapped then re-kidnapped. If you follow the characters 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":[2643,2066,34,1195,350],"class_list":["post-17460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-bruno-dumont","tag-france","tag-kidnapping","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460","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=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17498,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions\/17498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}