{"id":8761,"date":"2013-09-07T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2013-09-03T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T03:22:53","slug":"our-beloved-month-of-august-2008-miguel-gomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8761","title":{"rendered":"Our Beloved Month of August (2008, Miguel Gomes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-documentary that eventually focuses on scraps of stories: Paolo, who jumps into the river every year during carnival, and a couple of young lovers (actually cousins). Other pieces of the movie include the filming of the movie itself, camera turned upon its own crew, Gomes tryin to explain why he&#8217;s not making the film he was supposed to make, and a series of concerts, letting awful pop songs half play out before abruptly cutting away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/ourbelovedmonth1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/ourbelovedmonth2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so in favor of the semi-doc, fiction\/doc blend, experimental narrative, etc, but couldn&#8217;t get into this one, not nearly as much as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8374\">Tabu<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s kinda beloved though, and won a prize in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/ourbelovedmonth3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>M. Peranson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organically constructed and impressively humble, <em>Our Beloved Month of August<\/em> shows the fantastic, mythic elements present in everyday life, and the mundane realities present in filmmaking, presenting the two as links in a neverending chain of dominoes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Gomes:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/ourbelovedmonth4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-documentary that eventually focuses on scraps of stories: Paolo, who jumps into the river every year during carnival, and a couple of young lovers (actually cousins). Other pieces of the movie include the filming of the movie itself, camera turned upon its own crew, Gomes tryin to explain why he&#8217;s not making the film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1670,534,370],"class_list":["post-8761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-miguel-gomes","tag-pop-music","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}