{"id":2241,"date":"2010-01-16T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2010-01-17T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:18:41","slug":"seasonal-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier this week I found out that the French director Eric Rohmer (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89ric_Rohmer\">Wikipedia<\/a>) died <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8452993.stm\">at the age of 89<\/a>. Ebert has an elegant <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100111\/PEOPLE\/100119999\">in memoriam<\/a>: additional commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/88232\/Eric-Rohmer-French-filmmaker-dies-at-89\">at Metafilter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>My first introduction to Rohmer&#8217;s movies was (I think)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115940\/\">&#8216;Conte d&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;<\/a> (1996): The other movies in the Tales of the Season series followed soon after. What makes Rohmer&#8217;s movies likable are the long dialogues and the surprising twists his characters have and take: for example, in &#8216;Conte d&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;, the main character evolves from a shy guy into a full-blown womanizer. Rohmer&#8217;s take on relationships in all his movies is quite on the mark: that is, in real life, falling in love and dealing with mixed emotions about loved ones is a lot more complex than what Hollywood movies portray to us. Simplicity sells a lot, obviously, and that was not the business Rohmer was in.\n<\/p>\n<p>With the death of Rohmer, humans have indeed lost one of the greater humanists in the movie industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I found out that the French director Eric Rohmer (Wikipedia) died at the age of 89. Ebert has an elegant in memoriam: additional commentary at Metafilter. My first introduction to Rohmer&#8217;s movies was (I think)&#8216;Conte d&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9&#8217; (1996): &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[139,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}