{"id":27684,"date":"2022-02-20T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27684"},"modified":"2022-02-20T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:48:11","slug":"a-review-of-the-2017-film-tulip-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27684","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2017 film &#8220;Tulip Fever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Set in Amsterdam during the 17th century &#8216;tulip mania&#8217;, this is a romantic drama involving interconnecting relationships that looks splendid but suffers from excessive plotting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of talent went into the production of this film: it is based on a novel by Deborah Moggach and the script was co-written by her and Tom Stoppard; it has an ensemble cast including Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Judi Dench and Tom Hollander; and, although it was shot entirely in Britain, the sets and costumes create an authentic sense of time and place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the work was beset with problems: both production and release were much delayed; once out, it lost a lot of money; and it was tainted by being one of the last products of The Weinstein Company.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in Amsterdam during the 17th century &#8216;tulip mania&#8217;, this is a romantic drama involving interconnecting relationships that looks splendid but suffers from excessive plotting. A lot of talent went into the production of this film: it is based on a novel by Deborah Moggach and the script was co-written by her and Tom Stoppard; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27685,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684\/revisions\/27685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}