{"id":557798,"date":"2023-01-22T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=557798"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:03:51","slug":"the-antisemite-downstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-antisemite-downstairs","title":{"rendered":"The Antisemite Downstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Man in the Basement,&#8221; the new film by French director Philippe Le Guay, is a gripping entertainment that is nonetheless oddly unsatisfying, perhaps even a bit timid &#8212; which is saying something, given that its subject concerns the Holocaust. The picture opens in New York City on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A purposeful date, to be sure, but given the peculiar byways in which the Holocaust is evoked and elaborated upon during the run of the film, the timing seems curiously applied. The plot concerns Simon and H&#233;l&#232;ne Sandberg (J&#233;r&#233;mie Renier and B&#233;r&#233;nice Bejo), an attractive young couple who live in a Parisian co-op, a Byzantine edifice of winding staircases, generously scaled apartments, an interior courtyard, and a basement that seems as dank as it is labyrinthian. Simon is selling the family&#8217;s storage room and he assures an interested buyer that the space is, in fact, cool, dry and suitable for stowing one&#8217;s belongings. Jacques Fonzic (Fran&#231;ois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a gripping entertainment, the most compelling scenes in &#8216;The Man in the Basement&#8217; are the most queasy, wherein personal and historical truths are rendered malleable enough to waylay common<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}