{"id":1478,"date":"2009-09-17T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2009-10-12T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:29:41","slug":"1478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/1478\/","title":{"rendered":"Il grande sogno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1480 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"ilgrandesogno\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilgrandesogno.jpg\" alt=\"Il grande sogno\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilgrandesogno.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilgrandesogno-62x88.jpg 62w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Il grande sogno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New out this week,<strong> Il grande sogno<\/strong>, the new film from Michele Placido, whose <strong>Romanzo criminale <\/strong>was one of the better Italo-crime films of recent years.\u00a0 This sounds like a slightly less interesting production, being another in the line of movies set around the student protests of the late 60s (such as Bertolucci&#8217;s <strong>The Dreamers<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michele Placido&#8217;s &#8220;Il grande sogno,&#8221; a semi-autobiographical &#8217;68 student-protest movie with Riccardo Scamarcio in the Louis Garrel role, lacks the strong stamp of either Bertolucci or Garrel pere. Instead, it turns the idealistic youngers&#8217; call for radical change into a safely middlebrow, intermittently involving meller that impresses most in the sections furthest from Placido&#8217;s own experience. Less accomplished than &#8220;Crime Novel,&#8221; his previous take on recent Italo history, this pricey historical re-creation with a sexy young cast should nonetheless do OK biz locally and raise a few placards in other Euro territories (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117941004.html?categoryid=1043&amp;cs=1\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.variety.com']);\" target=\"_blank\">continues<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this has been doing very well over its opening weekend, netting just over a million euros.\u00a0 But I can&#8217;t say that the plot of it fills me with excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New out this week, Il grande sogno, the new film from Michele Placido, whose Romanzo criminale was one of the better Italo-crime films of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}