{"id":1202,"date":"2005-08-07T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/08\/return_to_sende\/"},"modified":"2005-08-07T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T16:59:52","slug":"return_to_sende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/return_to_sende\/","title":{"rendered":"Return To Sender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0396190\/\">Return to Sender<\/a> is a very Scandinavean film, that seems to have been inadvertantly set in the USA. Given that the film&#8217;s about death row prisoners, the US setting (Oklahoma) is correct, but everything else about the film shouts &#8220;Nordic&#8221;.<br \/>\nThat feeling is obviously aided and abeted by the fact that it&#8217;s directed by Danish director Bille August, known to British audiences as the director of Pelle the Conqueror and Smilla&#8217;s Feeling For Snow. It also stars the wonderful Connie Nielsen (Russell Crowe&#8217;s wife in Gladiator) who&#8217;s also Danish.<br \/>\nThe film revolves around Aidan Quinn&#8217;s character, a former death-row layer who now earns a disreputable crust by befriending who seem likeliest not to have their sentence commuted, in the hope of getting given their last letters for valuable publication purposes.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s chasing Connie Nielsen&#8217;s baby killer, but it slowly becomes clear that despite her lack of denial, there are other factors at work.<br \/>\nThe film is slowly paced, and although a thriller in name, it&#8217;s not a rushed affair. An interesting and well made film.<br \/>\nWhether it gets a proper UK release remains to be seen &#8211; it was made in 2004, and despite being a British co-production (Stephen Woolley is the executive producer), there&#8217;s very little sign of it going &#8220;wide&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to Sender is a very Scandinavean film, that seems to have been inadvertantly set in the USA. Given that the film&#8217;s about death row prisoners, the US setting (Oklahoma) is correct, but everything else about the film shouts &#8220;Nordic&#8221;. That feeling is obviously aided and abeted by the fact that it&#8217;s directed by Danish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}