{"id":5666,"date":"2019-08-16T06:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2019-08-16T06:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:50:31","slug":"our-souls-at-night-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/08\/our-souls-at-night-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Souls at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017, USA, 103 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a sleepy Colorado town, widow Addie (Jane Fonda) visits her withdrawn, widower neighbor Louis (Robert Redford) with a proposition: they should sleep together. Not to have sex but for the company. Soon, the almost-strangers step into a conversational rhythm that unexpectedly blooms.&nbsp;Ritesh Batra\u2019s adaptation of Kent Haruf\u2019s novel wraps us up in Addie and Louis\u2019 story by not rushing a thing. Every night, these two sheltered, shattered souls relearn intimacy and trust, so the film, by favoring a slow and steady pace over quick and easy dramatics, gives every interaction heft. The little gestures\u2014holding a hand, a head on a shoulder\u2014feel meaningful as a result. Redford and Fonda, acting together for the first time since 1979\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Electric Horseman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, deliver understated, lived-in performances that wash over us. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Souls at Night <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revels in the realities and pleasures of awakening, destroying the myth that rebirth is only a young person\u2019s game. Older viewers will cherish that message; younger viewers will have their eyes opened. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a sleepy Colorado town, widow Addie (Jane Fonda) visits her withdrawn, widower neighbor Louis (Robert Redford) with a proposition: they should sleep together.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/08\/our-souls-at-night-3\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Souls at Night<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,73,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-friendships-cinema","category-single-widowed-or-divorced"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}