{"id":522,"date":"2010-04-08T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:39:56","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-8th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"The Double Life of Veronique. Grey Goose or Belvedere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-551\" title=\"The French one.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/veronique.jpg\" alt=\"The French one.\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/veronique.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/veronique-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the mail[person] unknowingly disappointed us, failing to deliver the feature we had expected to show, Krzysztof Kieslowski&#8217;s <em>The Double Life of Veronique<\/em> was selected to fill the opening.\u00c2\u00a0Polish films, tending to be a bit thought-heavy, have a history of not playing too well to our fun-loving MovieNight audience, but this one managed to pull in and satisfy a healthy number of people. I&#8217;m uncertain that any of the audience (including myself) came away from this with a clear idea of what had just happened, but <em>Veronique<\/em> was a feast for the eyes and ears&#8230; perhaps a complete understanding of Kieslowski&#8217;s concept of the metaphysical connexion between Veronika and Veronique is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes&#8230; as for the vodka question&#8230; You might be aware that there are two well-established premium-deluxe vodkas (and several new wannabees) on the market. The two have a similarly designed bottles. One is Polish, and one is French. Are you seeing the connection now? We&#8217;ve been keeping Grey Goose on our top shelf for quite a while, but change is good&#8230; and since our top shelf isn&#8217;t so big, it&#8217;s Belvie time at MovieNight!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101765\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the mail[person] unknowingly disappointed us, failing to deliver the feature we had expected to show, Krzysztof Kieslowski&#8217;s The Double Life of Veronique was selected to fill the opening.\u00c2\u00a0Polish films, tending to be a bit thought-heavy, have a history of not playing too well to our fun-loving MovieNight audience, but this one managed to pull &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Double Life of Veronique. Grey Goose or Belvedere?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}