{"id":1173,"date":"2008-05-27T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2008-05-27T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:29:01","slug":"film-thought-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/film-thought-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Thought of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you aren’t at least a little bit charmed by The Young Girls of Rochefort<\/a><\/i>, you are a hopeless cynic.<\/p>\n

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(Sorry, couldn’t find any good clips with English subtitles, and not even this trailer has them, but trust me, whatever they’re saying isn’t important. The first ten minutes of music and dancing and almost no talking has me charmed every time I watch it. Pretend the colors are about ten times more vivid than they are in this print, too, because they are.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you aren’t at least a little bit charmed by The Young Girls of Rochefort, you are a hopeless cynic. (Sorry, couldn’t find any good clips with English subtitles, and not even this trailer has them, but trust me, whatever they’re saying isn’t important. The first ten minutes of music and dancing and almost no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[933,932],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17422,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/video-clip-the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1173,"position":0},"title":"Video Clip: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg","author":"Jandy","date":"February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I must be a romantic after all, because every time I see the scene at the train station, I think my heart's just going to break. 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