{"id":7430,"date":"2010-09-20T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2010-09-21T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T06:17:30","slug":"le-tete-en-friche-my-afternoons-with-marguerite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7430","title":{"rendered":"Le T\u00eate en Friche (My Afternoons with Marguerite)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-2parksmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7443\" title=\"Copy of 2parksmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-2parksmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-2parksmall.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-2parksmall-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romantic love is wonderful (sometimes) but love comes in many sizes, shapes, styles and flavors. When it comes to languages, French always works well for a love story, especially when a love of language is part of the narrative. Jean Becker\u2019s \u201cMy Afternoons with Marguerite\u201d (Le T\u00eate en Friche) is captivating in its simplicity, and, in its own way \u2013 almost daring in its premise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-4gdsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7445\" title=\"Copy of 4gdsmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-4gdsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-4gdsmall.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-4gdsmall-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9rard Depardieu stars as Germain \u2013 a middle-aged overweight man, rough and clumsy in speech and manner. He works at odd jobs and spends most of his time hanging out at the local caf\u00e9, and drinking with his buddies. A chance encounter with Margueritte, an elderly woman he meets in the park, leads to a surprising friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Gis\u00e8le Casadesus (b. 1914 \u2013 her first film credit is from 1934 in Marcel L\u2019Herbier\u2019s Raider) is delightfully flirtatious for a bookworm, and her presence illuminates the film throughout. However, the real love interest in this film is neither Depardieu nor Casadesus, but books. Beginning with Albert Camus\u2019 The Plague, hesitant at first, Germain embarks on a love affair with books, and his imagination takes him further than he ever thought possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-1marguerittesmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7446\" title=\"Copy of 1marguerittesmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-1marguerittesmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-1marguerittesmall.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Copy-of-1marguerittesmall-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Afternoons with Margueritte, France 2010, 82 minutes, French with English and Hebrew subtitles. The film is distributed in Israel by Orlando Films, and scheduled for release September 22, 2010 at the following theatres: Dizengof Theatre\u00a0Tel Aviv; Kochav Theatre Ramat Hasharon; Jerusalem Cinematheque, Chen Theatre Rehovot; Amami Theatre Haifa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Romantic love is wonderful (sometimes) but love comes in many sizes, shapes, styles and flavors. When it comes to languages, French always works well for a love story, especially when a love of language is part of the narrative. Jean Becker\u2019s \u201cMy Afternoons with Marguerite\u201d (Le T\u00eate en Friche) is captivating in its simplicity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}