{"id":182,"date":"2016-12-22T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-12-22T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:03:17","slug":"the-library-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/foreign-language\/the-library-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KayzK7GHj8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Welsh library film! I don&#8217;t think there is a list of Welsh Library Films, but this would probably top it. It centres on twins Ana and Nan (both played by Catrin Stewart), daughters of a local writer Elena, who falls to her death. With her last words she whispers &#8220;it was Eben.&#8221; When the aforementioned Eben arrives at the national library in Aberystwyth where the twins work, to sort through Elena&#8217;s material to write her biography, the twins plot revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The film takes place over one night as the story of Eben and Elena unfolds during the twin&#8217;s plan. The affable night guard Dan becomes embroiled in the mayhem also. We are repeatedly told than Ana and Nan are palindromes, but in case we missed it, &#8220;and Nan&#8221; is also an anagram of Dan Ana. <\/p>\n<p>It features some nicely framed shots, but then twins wearing identical clothes, moving in sync is almost cheating cinematically for a structured image. It makes some comments on the nature of identity, memory and the role narrative plays in the construction of the self. Ultimately it&#8217;s like a long version of Hinterland, and that&#8217;s no bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Welsh library film! I don&#8217;t think there is a list of Welsh Library Films, but this would probably top it. It centres on twins Ana and Nan (both played by Catrin Stewart), daughters of a local writer Elena, who falls to her death. With her last words she whispers&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/foreign-language\/the-library-suicides\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-foreign-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}