{"id":510,"date":"2012-12-28T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:36:52","slug":"blessed-thu-17-october-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2012\/12\/blessed-thu-17-october-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"BLESSED, Thu 17 October, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">An intensely serious and accomplished study of errant teenagers and their preoccupied mothers. Finely-acted by a large cast, five intertwined stories are played out on the mean streets of Melbourne. &#8220;a missile of raw emotion&#8221; &#8211; Variety<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Ana Kokkinos. Australia, 2009. 111 minutes. Cert: 18. Language: English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Blessed is a dark, relentless and intensely serious study of errant\u00a0<\/span>teenagers and their preoccupied mothers. Finely acted by a large cast led by\u00a0a jagged, desperate Frances O\u00b9Connor, four thematically linked stories are\u00a0played out on the mean streets of western Melbourne: unhappy mothers\u00a0mistrust their children, drifting children mistrust their mothers.\u00a0Director Kokkinos, known for her sexy, stylised Head On (1998) and The Book<br \/>\nof Revelation (2006), works close to documentary realism here, with much\u00a0hand-held camerawork and a street-weary look.<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Frances O\u00b9Connor, Miranda Otto, Deborra-Lee Furness, Victoria\u00a0Haralabidou, William McInnes, Sophie Lowe<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7ikikJyl1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intensely serious and accomplished study of errant teenagers and their preoccupied mothers. Finely-acted by a large cast, five intertwined stories are played out on the mean streets of Melbourne&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}