{"id":3396,"date":"2015-05-01T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2015-05-01T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:49:29","slug":"mays-essential-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/mays-essential-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie&#8217;s Story, Welcome to Me, Sunshine Superman, The Connection: May&#8217;s Essential Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Wiig surprises us with a movie that&#8217;s funny and smart, while the story of Marie Heurtin\u2014a young girl born blind and deaf in 19th Century France\u2014tugs at the heartstrings: these and more of May&#8217;s best new movies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome To Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: Shira Piven<br \/>\nStarring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens May 1st<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In one of the most refreshing movie surprises of the year, Kristen Wiig cranks the dial to 11 and delivers a powerhouse performance that is, at once, detached yet affecting, and entirely on point. As a lonely and unbalanced woman who hits the lottery jackpot, Wiig&#8217;s character reinvents herself as a host of a talk show in which she chooses to discuss only herself, or in her own words, \u201cwhat I like to eat, my relationships with animals and who I think is a c\u2014t.\u201d A media satire on the surface, though much more beneath it, <em>Welcome To Me<\/em> reveals a thumping heart as a movie with brains, wit and heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r0KEe-hMsLg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: C\u00e9dric Jimenez<br \/>\nStarring: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, C\u00e9line Sallette<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens May 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin stars as French police magistrate Pierre Michel, who gets cast as part of a six-year operation to bring down the kingpin of a major drug ring. C\u00e9dric Jimenez&#8217; movie\u2014with its quick cuts, jerky camerawork and frenetic montages\u2014pays tribute to William Friedkin&#8217;s 1971 cult classic\u00a0<em>The French Connection<\/em> while remaining entirely its own: shot on 35 mm film with a stylized throwback to the 70s, Jimenez&#8217; <em>Connection<\/em>\u00a0is a throwback with its own modern-era backbone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dx41FbyvSMw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slow West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: John MacLean<br \/>\nStarring: Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Rory McCann<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens May 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For his directorial debut, John MacLean goes back to the 19th century to stage a love story centered around 17-year old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who has travelled from Scotland to Colorado to be reunited with the woman he loves. Confronted with the dangers of the West, he teams up with a wandered names Silas (Michael Fassbender), who agrees to protect him for cash. Described as an American Western with European sensibilities, <em>Slow West<\/em> imbues into the venerable genre dark humor, love and greed for an end result that is refreshingly coherent and engaging. <em>Slow West <\/em>won the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance festival.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFfsTsdJfF8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marie&#8217;s Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: Jean-Pierre Am\u00e9ris<br \/>\nStarring: Isabelle Carr\u00e9, Ariana Rivoire, Brigitte Catillon<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens May 1st<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marie Heurtin was born blind and deaf. Sensible, delicate without being overly melodramatic, <em>Marie&#8217;s Story<\/em> tells the tale of Marie Heurtin (played by newcomer Ariana Rivoire, who is deaf though not blind) as she gets admitted to\u2014though initially rejected from\u2014a convent that teaches deaf girls sign language. The intimate tone highlights the movie&#8217;s emotional voice, respectfully capped by the central unobtrusive, affective performances.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7HG-bDNEumw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunshine Superman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: Marah Strauch<br \/>\nStarring: John B. Macaulay, Marah Strauch, John Long<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens May 22nd<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unreasonable insanity to some, thrill sport to others. Base jumping (the act of leaping from buildings, antennas, bridges and cliffs before saving your life with a parachute) is celebrated in Marah Strauch&#8217;s documentary, a movie that is, in essence, about ultimate freedom, and what it feels like, for a moment, to defy gravity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CsJW3_NqJ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Wiig surprises us with a movie that&#8217;s funny and smart, while the story of Marie Heurtin\u2014a young girl born blind and deaf in 19th Century France\u2014tugs at the heartstrings: these and more of May&#8217;s best new movies. &nbsp; Welcome To Me Director: Shira Piven Starring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini Opens May 1st In one of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[187,188,189,190],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-goodbye-south-goodbye","tag-kirsten-wiig","tag-maries-story","tag-welcome-to-me"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-SM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}