{"id":540,"date":"2022-03-24T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:48:56","slug":"petite-maman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/24\/petite-maman\/","title":{"rendered":"Petite Maman. Hot chocolate in a bowl."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-541\"\/><figcaption>Is that a little camp?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The death of a grandmother, the grief of a parent, the acquisition of a new friend \u2014 these ordinary experiences, occurring over a few weeks in the life of an 8-year-old girl, provide the basic narrative structure of this spare, perfect film. Whether it\u2019s best described as a modern-dress fairy tale, a psychological ghost story or a low-tech time travel fantasy is up to you. What\u2019s certain is that the performances of Josephine and Gabrielle Sanz, real-life twins playing possibly imaginary friends, have a clarity and purity that Sciamma (\u201cPortrait of a Lady on Fire\u201d) deploys for maximum emotional impact.&#8221; (A. O. Scott &#8211; The New York Times)<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <em>Petite Maman<\/em> left us afloat in the sort of warm comfort that a young child might find in their morning bowl of hot chocolate&#8230; a quintessential French breakfast fare.\u00a0 Another fine movie night at NewScreen.<\/p>\n<p>Less well received tonight was our short, which featured Kyiv rapper, Tricky Nicki&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUdc_efbZ8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ride for Ukraine<\/a> (in English). I guess people here have the luxury of being tired of the war already?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13204490\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The death of a grandmother, the grief of a parent, the acquisition of a new friend \u2014 these ordinary experiences, occurring over a few weeks in the life of an 8-year-old girl, provide the basic narrative structure of this spare, perfect film. Whether it\u2019s best described as a modern-dress fairy tale, a psychological ghost story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/24\/petite-maman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petite Maman. Hot chocolate in a bowl.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}