{"id":9931,"date":"2015-07-04T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9931"},"modified":"2015-06-30T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:19:02","slug":"la-distancia-2014-sergio-caballero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9931","title":{"rendered":"La Distancia (2014, Sergio Caballero)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Caballero&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5875\">Finisterrae<\/a><\/em>, putting it in my <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7123\">top five<\/a> of the year.  Didn&#8217;t feel the magic with this one.  Maybe it&#8217;s me and not the film.  I feel like I&#8217;m being too harsh, but everything felt contrived, jokey and pandering &#8211; a conscious desire to create a cult success.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/distance3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Three psychic dwarfs are hired by an imprisoned performance artist to steal a macguffin from an abandoned factory, which is guarded by a solitary man and his haiku-spouting bucket.  I love the clay-faced artist, baby foxes, matching cars and campers.  But there aren&#8217;t enough of these moments of pleasure &#8211; mostly it&#8217;s slow, talky, committed to its pointless plot.  Still holding out hope for his 25-minute horror\/comedy also released last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lynch, but with more crotch-sniffing:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/distance2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>All three of the dwarf actors appeared in <em>Blancanieves<\/em>, Pablo Berger&#8217;s <em>Snow White<\/em> movie, obviously.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/distance1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Caballero&#8217;s Finisterrae, putting it in my top five of the year. Didn&#8217;t feel the magic with this one. Maybe it&#8217;s me and not the film. I feel like I&#8217;m being too harsh, but everything felt contrived, jokey and pandering &#8211; a conscious desire to create a cult success. Three psychic dwarfs are hired [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","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=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}