{"id":4152,"date":"2015-09-18T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rigaiff.lv\/2015\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T08:40:46","slug":"le-chat-dans-le-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/le-chat-dans-le-sac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat in the Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claude is twenty-three; he reads and cycles a lot, is interested in politics, and tries to live aesthetically, but he is also lost in his own life. Barbara will soon turn twenty, she studies acting, believes she\u2019s an optimist, wants to travel and live in Paris. <!--more-->Sometimes they eat brunch with their friends, a children\u2019s book artist and a magician. Barbara would bring coffee and croissants, while Claude doesn\u2019t take off his sunglasses even when reading a paper. They could be our contemporaries, but the young couple are the protagonists of Canadian director Gilles Groulx\u2019s film \u201cThe Cat in the Bag\u201d (1964) in which Claude and Barbara take turns to tell us the story of their separation. This \u2018mockumentary\u2019 is a bright example of \u201cdirect cinema\u201d, the genre Groulx himself established, but it is also almost like a love letter to the revolutionaries of the French New Wave, especially Jean-Luc Goddard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude is twenty-three; he reads and cycles a lot, is interested in politics, and tries to live aesthetically, but he is also lost in his own life. Barbara will soon turn twenty, she studies acting, believes she\u2019s an optimist, wants to travel and live in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[89,76,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}