{"id":9208,"date":"2013-11-29T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/review-about-aida-ballmanns-performance-in-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:54:54","slug":"review-about-aida-ballmanns-performance-in-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/review-about-aida-ballmanns-performance-in-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of A\u00efda&#8217;s performance in Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11263112_475117612637580_2495008186301720056_n-e1460716564592.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7345 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11263112_475117612637580_2495008186301720056_n-e1460716564592.jpg 835w, https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11263112_475117612637580_2495008186301720056_n-e1460716564592-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11263112_475117612637580_2495008186301720056_n-e1460716564592-768x375.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>Unnamed, gawky She (the strikingly clear-eyed Aida Ballman, debuting here) lives an isolated existence in a very peculiar house. Happy but lonely, she has typed out and sent 1,212 letters in 1,212 days with no reply until one day, she receives one from the like-minded He (Spain-based American Ken Appledorn). (\u2026)<\/em><br\/><em>Her German-inflected voiceover apart, the effervescent Ballman is basically doing a heightened, complex version of a circus clown. But the viewer never forgets that this is a lively, radiant young woman too, entirely innocent of the world, fragile and damaged by her relationship with her mother, who rather than tell her fairy stories as a child recited times tables to her \u2014 hence the title, and the resulting psychological damage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/extraordinary-tale-film-review-665094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the review on Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Holland, critic for The Hollywood Reporter, writes the following about her character in &#8220;The Extraordinary Tale&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919],"tags":[800,811,812,803],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-cinema-and-documentary","tag-hollywood-reporter-en","tag-jonathan-holland-en","tag-the-extraordinary-tale-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12403,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions\/12403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidaballmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}