{"id":1542,"date":"2013-02-27T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2013-02-27T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:22:55","slug":"foreign-film-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Film Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/10\/Il_Divo_poster.jpg\/220px-Il_Divo_poster.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just watched &#8220;Il Divo&#8221;, an Italian political thriller about Giulio Andreotti. Fantastic, mesmerizing portrayal of the seven-time PM of Italy, complete with his alleged ties to the Mafia, neo-Fascists, the Vatican, crooked bankers that wound up murdered, and even a goodly dose of clandestine Masonic lodges. Crazy thing is, this ain&#8217;t no Dan Brown novel: this is reality in Italian politics. &#8220;Il Divo&#8221; thrills all right, but it&#8217;s a biopic, not a fiction created from whole cloth.<\/p>\n<p>The acting is top-notch, the soundtrack frequently delights, and the suits are AMAZING. First rule of Italy: look fantastic. Morals and ethics can come after that&#8230; The cinematography deserves a special mention for its stylization. It creates the proper feel for the film and never lets up. As a whole, the film is immersive, compelling, and &#8211; at the end of the day &#8211; great entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>I had the film on my shelf, but hadn&#8217;t watched it until now, when the Vatican came under fire in its latest scandal, coupled with the election turmoil in Italy. I can&#8217;t say that I totally understand Italian politics now, but the insights from this film are most welcome and relevant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched &#8220;Il Divo&#8221;, an Italian political thriller about Giulio Andreotti. Fantastic, mesmerizing portrayal of the seven-time PM of Italy, complete with his alleged ties to the Mafia, neo-Fascists, the Vatican, crooked bankers that wound up murdered, and even a goodly dose of clandestine Masonic lodges. Crazy thing is, this ain&#8217;t no Dan Brown novel: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}