{"id":933,"date":"2022-02-26T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:12:03","slug":"film-review-book-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Book of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Book of Love.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Book-of-Love.jpg\" alt=\"Book of Love\" width=\"204\" height=\"302\" border=\"0\" \/>This is a weird hybrid of a &#8220;modern&#8221; love film and a Mexican telenovella.<\/p>\n<p>Made in Mexico, it features Sam Clafin as the uptight Englsh author, and Ver\u00f3nica Echegui as his Mexican translator and co-author.<\/p>\n<p>Clafin&#8217;s character, Henry, is generally unlikeable, and exploits Maria in a self absorbed, narcissistic way throughout the film.<\/p>\n<p>Maria is too good for him, too clever, too talented. This film is broken and cliched in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p>A disappointing 4.0\/10.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a weird hybrid of a &#8220;modern&#8221; love film and a Mexican telenovella. Made in Mexico, it features Sam Clafin as the uptight Englsh author, and Ver\u00f3nica Echegui as his Mexican translator and co-author. Clafin&#8217;s character, Henry, is generally unlikeable, and exploits Maria in a self absorbed, narcissistic way throughout the film. Maria is too good for him, too&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}