{"id":164,"date":"2006-02-28T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-10-26T19:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:03:17","slug":"the-girl-in-the-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-girl-in-the-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Macdonald and Bill Nighy bond over extreme poverty in The Girl in the Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Richard Curtis and David Yates&#8217; <em>The Girl in the Caf\u00e9<\/em>, a BBC movie aired in the US on HBO, was incredibly cute, and my heartstrings were indeed pulled, but I couldn&#8217;t shake the sense the love story was mere dressing for the real purpose of the film: explicating the issue of extreme poverty to help warm the public up for Live 8. Of course, I feel heartless for criticizing this aspect of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, the age difference between Bill Nighy and <a href=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/tag\/kelly-macdonald\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"575\">Kelly Macdonald<\/a> was so vast that &#8212; forget about their characters&#8217; conflict over whether to battle or defer to stubborn politicians &#8212; it&#8217;s an issue unto itself. But if possible to overlook that, it&#8217;s a perfectly charming and lovely movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reykjavik should hereby pass an ordinance decreeing its name shall heretoforth be spoken only in Macdonald&#8217;s Scottish accent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Curtis and David Yates&#8217; The Girl in the Caf\u00e9, a BBC movie aired in the US on HBO, was incredibly cute, and my heartstrings were indeed pulled, but I couldn&#8217;t shake the sense the love story was mere dressing for the real purpose of the film: explicating the issue of extreme poverty to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[15,2,424],"tags":[576,571,1075,100,575,1330,1331],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-movies","category-tv","tag-bill-nighy","tag-david-yates","tag-hbo","tag-iceland","tag-kelly-macdonald","tag-live-8","tag-reykjavik"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/girl-in-the-cafe-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-2E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/state-of-play\/","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":0},"title":"Cool Britannia: David Yates&#8217; BBC Miniseries State of Play","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2003 BBC miniseries State of Play is nothing less than six straight hours of intelligent drama, liberally spiced with suspense, action, and tasty plot twists. 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