{"id":1765,"date":"2016-12-18T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:51:40","slug":"the-midwife-france-thursday-28-september-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/the-midwife-france-thursday-28-september-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MIDWIFE [FRANCE], THU 28 SEPTEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_FLOFTvqdQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A tale of two Catherines.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Martin Provost (Violette, Seraphine) unites two of France&#8217;s favourite actors in his tender comedy drama about female friendship and rediscovery.\u00a0 Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot play very different women whose shaky reconnection after a number of decades allows them to learn valuable life lessons from one another. Claire (Frot) is the conscientious Midwife of the title, a single mother whose reservations and self-restraint have left her living an isolated life.\u00a0\u00a0 Until the day her deceased father&#8217;s ex-girlfriend makes contact.\u00a0 Beatrice (Deneuve) is a free-spirited, professional gambler who wishes to reconnect with Claire&#8217;s father.\u00a0 Shocked at the news that he has passed away, she implants herself into Claire&#8217;s life instead, bringing chaos, joy and memories of happier times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A bittersweet delight\u2026rich, thoughtful, frequently funny.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Screen International<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Offering plum roles to Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve&#8230;a crowd-pleaser about friendship, forgiveness and rolling with the punches.\u2019<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Indie Wire<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Provost has once again proven to be a sensitive and sure-handed director of what used to be called \u201cwomen\u2019s films,\u201d with this one somewhat of a cross between Douglas Sirk and the Dardennes.&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Deneuve and Frot excel as contrasting women with an account to settle in a tale that combines realism and melodrama.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/jul\/09\/the-midwife-review-catherines-are-great-deneuve-frot-drama-martin-provost\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SAGE FEMME | France, 2017 | Language: French | 117 minutes | Cert: 15A<\/p>\n<p>Director: Martin Provost<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tale of two Catherines. Director Martin Provost (Violette, Seraphine) unites two of France&#8217;s favourite actors in his tender comedy drama about female friendship and rediscovery.\u00a0 Catherine Deneuve and Catherine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18,20,17,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}