{"id":8975,"date":"2013-12-19T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2013-12-07T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:23:59","slug":"the-suitor-1962-pierre-etaix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8975","title":{"rendered":"The Suitor (1962, Pierre Etaix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etaix is a young shut-in astronomy obsessive. Thanks to an earplugs gag, he barely hears his dad&#8217;s speech about how the son should go find a wife, but takes it to heart anyway, immediately tearing down his star maps and proposing to Ilka the Swedish au pair.  She can&#8217;t understand him, so he goes out, watches how other men meet and deal with women and attempts to imitate them, getting caught up with a vivacious neighbor, mooning after a singing star, then finally returning to the au pair.  It all hangs together pretty well, not as constantly funny as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8878\">As Long As You&#8217;ve Got Your Health<\/a><\/em>, but pretty excellent for a first feature, a graceful comedy full of cinematic framing gags as well as standard behavioral humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etaix is a young shut-in astronomy obsessive. Thanks to an earplugs gag, he barely hears his dad&#8217;s speech about how the son should go find a wife, but takes it to heart anyway, immediately tearing down his star maps and proposing to Ilka the Swedish au pair. She can&#8217;t understand him, so he goes out, [&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":[410,1752],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-pierre-etaix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975","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=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9006,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}