{"id":1571,"date":"2004-03-31T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/piecesofapril.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T20:54:04","slug":"independent-us-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Independent US-style."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I saw <em>Pieces of April<\/em> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinoblowup.de\/docs\/fs_index.html\" title=\"Blow Up homepage\">Blow Up<\/a> here in Berlin. (I haven&#8217;t been in this movie theater since ages &#8211; the last time I&#8217;ve been there must have been in the late nineties &#8211; the backyard is totally renovated, there is a whole big apartment building that I did not know, and the popcorn contained to many unpopped corns.) This movie seems to try to be a mix of dogma style cinema and sit-coms. It works pretty well though. Casting and characters are convincing (perhaps with the exception of Beth the perfect daughter and Wayne the neighbor with the perfect stove) and I liked the way their small stories were told. Perhaps there was a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0911061\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Wayne Wang\">Wayne Wang<\/a> in this movie too, although this does not really compare to <em>Smoke<\/em> or <em>Blue in the Face<\/em>. You might want to watch this movie &#8211; it was better than expected.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0311648\/\">IMDb entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/mgm\/pieces_of_april\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I saw Pieces of April in the Blow Up here in Berlin. (I haven&#8217;t been in this movie theater since ages &#8211; the last time I&#8217;ve been there must have been in the late nineties &#8211; the backyard is totally renovated, there is a whole big apartment building that I did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-wayne-wang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}