{"id":2517,"date":"2011-04-15T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2011-04-15T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:46:59","slug":"rasputin-by-louis-nero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/rasputin-by-louis-nero\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasputin by Louis Nero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago Louis Nero made <strong>Hans<\/strong>, a strange pyschological, well, thriller I guess, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2194\" >reviewed just here<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a flawed but interesting film, experimental and moody, and it&#8217;s interesting to see that the director is back with a new project, <strong>Rasputin<\/strong>, which also looks to be rather idiosyncratic.\u00a0 It begins with the last hours of the protagonist&#8217;s life, before flashing back to flesh out the story with detail about the doomed world of the Romanov dynasty, Russian occultism and how Rasputin came to be such an infamous character.\u00a0 An interesting story.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not exactly a big release, opening in just two cinemas and pulling in a grand total of \u20ac14,000 in its first week.\u00a0 The cast is headed by Francesco Cabras, who also appeared in <strong>The Passion of Christ <\/strong>and <strong>Captain Corelli&#8217;s Mandolin<\/strong>, but don&#8217;t hold that against him, and it&#8217;s narrated by Franco Nero.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JWxrG52yYw0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JWxrG52yYw0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago Louis Nero made Hans, a strange pyschological, well, thriller I guess, and it&#8217;s interesting to see that the director is back with a new project, Rasputin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[814,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}