{"id":15029,"date":"2012-05-12T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15029"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:07:31","slug":"scott-feschuk-on-the-cannes-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/scott-feschuk-on-the-cannes-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Feschuk on the Cannes line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much with the accuracy in titles, but certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2011\/05\/16\/its-french-for-blockbuster\/\" target=\"_blank\">accurate on content<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Cannes Film Festival is once again showcasing its usual fare of upbeat, crowd-pleasing entertainment. I\u2019ve not entirely been paying attention, but here\u2019s what\u2019s playing so far as I can tell:<\/p>\n<p><em>Despair and Isolation<\/em> &mdash; Several orphans struggle to comprehend the human condition in a cruel world where the only constants are heartbreak and suffering. Running time: six hours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Isolation, Despair and also Anguish<\/em> &mdash; Several thinner orphans struggle to comprehend the human condition while wheezing in a crueller world where the only constants are heartbreak, suffering and their leprosy (the skin kind and the social kind). Running time: six hours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Despair, Anguish, Further Anguish and a Shaky Hand-held Camera<\/em> &mdash; Several orphans struggle to comprehend the human condition, but without going outside, because the film\u2019s budget is only $19. Running time: 33 hours (couldn\u2019t afford fancy \u201cediting\u201d machine).<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p><em>The Triumph of Love<\/em> &mdash; Turns out the title is pretty misleading. This \u201cLove\u201d guy is a serial killer who targets orphans whose parents were murdered by other serial killers who themselves were orphans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much with the accuracy in titles, but certainly accurate on content: The Cannes Film Festival is once again showcasing its usual fare of upbeat, crowd-pleasing entertainment. I\u2019ve not entirely been paying attention, but here\u2019s what\u2019s playing so far as I can tell: Despair and Isolation &mdash; Several orphans struggle to comprehend the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1117,57,28],"tags":[122,463],"class_list":["post-15029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Up","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}