{"id":29042,"date":"2025-05-23T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=29042"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:43:49","slug":"d-is-for-distance","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/d-is-for-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"D is for Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifteen filmless years have passed since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(if we ignore Petit&#8217;s minute contribution to the omnibus <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Film That Buys the Cinema<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2014). But in a certain way, Petit was always busy with it, as Emma Matthews and he were raising their son, Louis, who suffers from a gruesomely debilitating form of epilepsy that wiped out his whole memory of childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously, they weren&#8217;t thinking about cinema while doing their best as parents, and they surely didn&#8217;t see Louis as the future protagonist of a film; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discontent<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D Is for<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distance <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was originally to be called, was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anyway<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> supposed to be something quite different: a paranoid politics speculation not unlike the performance project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Museum of Loneliness presents Lee Harvey Oswald&#8217;s Last Dream<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2014). But then it became another road movie, this time Finland-bound, during which the parents remember the tribulations of their son&#8217;s younger years through video they taped while creating together new memories in reality as well as on data cards for a future unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many other subjects get mentioned, but what one remembers most in the end is that small family trying so hard to live decently in a world that has turned pernicious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Olaf M\u00f6ller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen filmless years have passed since Content (if we ignore Petit&#8217;s minute contribution to the omnibus The Film That Buys the Cinema, 2014).","protected":false},"featured_media":29040,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29042","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-chris-petit-en","filters-english-dialogue","filters-puhuttu-tai-tekstitetty-suomeksi-en","filters-special-guests-films"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>D is for Distance &#8212; 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