{"id":33606,"date":"2013-09-14T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33606"},"modified":"2013-09-14T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:19:43","slug":"belle-toronto-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33606","title":{"rendered":"Belle: Toronto Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movie\/belle\/review\/628483\" target=\"_blank\">Belle<em>: Toronto Review<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><br \/>\n2013-09-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/johndefore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John DeFore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Hoping to use some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Austen\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen<\/a>-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amma_Asante\" target=\"_blank\">Amma Asante&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Belle<\/em> centers on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_Elizabeth_Belle\" target=\"_blank\">Dido Elizabeth Belle<\/a>, the mixed-race child who was sent to be raised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Murray,_1st_Earl_of_Mansfield\" target=\"_blank\">second-highest judge in England&#8217;s courts<\/a>. Though the inventions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0756034\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misan Sagay&#8217;s<\/a> script emphasize concerns over dowries and social rank that will be grating for many contemporary viewers, extracting little of the humor that Austen regularly found in such hangups, the picture&#8217;s sour notes are balanced by fine performances and clear historical appeal. Moviegoers should respond well, if not overwhelmingly, when Fox Searchlight brings it to theaters next spring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movie\/belle\/review\/628483\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belle: Toronto Review The Hollywood Reporter 2013-09-12 John DeFore The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante. TORONTO \u2014 Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,10,20],"tags":[15678,15271,15676,15761,15762,15763,15760],"class_list":["post-33606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-amma-asante","tag-dido-elizabeth-belle","tag-gugu-mbatha-raw","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-john-defore","tag-misan-sagay","tag-the-hollywood-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}