{"id":29,"date":"2013-08-28T23:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robgue.com\/wordpress\/?p=29"},"modified":"2015-02-22T23:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:26:36","slug":"what-did-maisie-know-parents-are-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"What did Maisie know? Parents are idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popped along to the local \u2018World of My Front Room\u2019 to watch \u2018What Maisie Knew\u2019, courtesy of Curzon\u2019s terrific Home Cinema on demand service. While not the same as a full on theatrical experience, this intimate drama worked superbly well on the small screen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WQ5ea24Rn-A?feature=oembed\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Maisie\u2019s hopeless parents, Julianne Moore is fabulous as fading rock chick Susanna, while Steve Coogan moves effortlessly from a Partridge in Norwich to the vain, and rather pathetic Beale in New York. Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd\u00a0 and Joanna Vanderham are also on point as Lincoln and Margo, the surrogates upon whom Maisie\u2019s parents rely. In the centre of the emotional maelstrom of a family life disintegrating is the utterly captivating Onata Aprile as Maisie, through whose eyes and around whom we see events unfold. Hers is an emotionally charged but completely natural performance that thankfully betrays not a trace of Hollywood schmaltz. I am staggered that a child so young can deliver such a fearsome piece of work; she really is breathtakingly good. I had high hopes for \u2018What Maisie Knew\u2019 and I was not disappointed. This is independent film making of the highest quality that rewards infinitely more than much of the major box office release fodder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popped along to the local \u2018World of My Front Room\u2019 to watch \u2018What Maisie Knew\u2019, courtesy of Curzon\u2019s terrific Home Cinema on demand service. While not the same as a full on theatrical experience, this intimate drama worked superbly well on the small screen. As Maisie\u2019s hopeless parents, Julianne Moore is fabulous as fading rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}