{"id":570,"date":"2007-01-04T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/banlieue-13-district-b13\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T00:37:29","slug":"banlieue-13-district-b13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/banlieue-13-district-b13\/","title":{"rendered":"Banlieue 13 (District B13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editors of Time Magazine that picked District B13<\/a> as one of the 10 best films of the year [update: link no longer online], I can only ask, dude, Que la baise vous pensaient-elles? Yes, granted, it touches on some extremely sensitive and timely issues in a racially and culturally divided Paris, but those moments are bolted-on and heavy-handed, serving as mere filler between admittedly awesome parkour<\/a> sequences. I had more fun at The Transporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the editors of Time Magazine that picked District B13 as one of the 10 best films of the year [update: link no longer online], I can only ask, dude, Que la baise vous pensaient-elles? Yes, granted, it touches on some extremely sensitive and timely issues in a racially and culturally divided Paris, but those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5598,"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":[22,2],"tags":[35,39,1126,1162],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-stars","category-movies","tag-action","tag-france","tag-paris","tag-parkour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/district-b13.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-9c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3610,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/district-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":570,"position":0},"title":"Apart Hate: District Neill Blomkamp’s District 9","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is an old story told many times in fiction and history: an undesirable group intrudes upon the space and resources of privileged power possessors. 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