{"id":89605,"date":"2022-10-05T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=89605"},"modified":"2022-10-05T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:50:09","slug":"review-david-o-russell-goes-to-war-in-amsterdam-but-this-historical-farce-nether-comes-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/review-david-o-russell-goes-to-war-in-amsterdam-but-this-historical-farce-nether-comes-together","title":{"rendered":"Review: David O. Russell goes to war in &#8216;Amsterdam,&#8217; but this historical farce Nether comes together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of &#8220;Amsterdam,&#8221; the typically busy and discombulating new movie written and directed by David O. Russell, refers to the events of a memorable Dutch idyll in 1918, toward the end of the First World War. For two wounded American servicemen, Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) and Harold Woodman (John David Washington), and a nurse, Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie), overseeing their recovery, the city of Amsterdam becomes a temporary refuge and playground. The French New Wave may still be decades away, but there&#8217;s an invigorating dash of Truffaut (but really, true-friend) energy to these proceedings. For a few tender, spirited moments you might be reminded of &#8220;Jules and Jim&#8221; or perhaps Godard&#8217;s &#8220;Band of Outsiders,&#8221; even when Burt&#8217;s shot-up face is wrapped in bandages or when Valerie, an aspiring Dadaist, is molding sculptures from the bloody bullets and shrapnel she&#8217;s extracted from her patients&#8217; wounds. Russell himself pushed the carnage of war to aesthetic extremes in 1999&#8217;s &#8220;Three Kings,&#8221; when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington headline David O. Russell&#8217;s star-studded madcap history lesson set during and after World War I.<\/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":[314,19,21],"class_list":["post-89605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-army","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605","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=89605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}