Or, TIFF at 40 as they are calling this one. 
We’re 4 movies in:
The first one was Friday, at 6:00 – Bang Gang (A modern love story), about bored French teenagers’ summer of sex & drugs, and posting video of themselves to the Internet. Of course they get caught, with varying levels of repercussions for each kid. I liked how it ended better than it went. Somehow I felt like I didn’t need to be reminded that teenagers do stupid stuff; I can still remember both me as a kid and my kids at 16 and 17 all too well.
Mark did conference on Friday morning, and I worked. We met at our favorite coffee place, Bulldog, which had moved, as their website says, “a 45-second stroll from our old location.” We went and got Thai for a late lunch/big meal of the day. After the movie, we stopped and bought ice cream – and sure enough, adding Nutella makes even grocery store ice cream good.
Next, The Daughter, an update of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck. At 8:45AM, in a nice theater that’s at University of Toronto’s downtown campus. We saw Southcliffe at the same place in 2013. Nice enough that it made up for being there at 8:45 on a rainy Saturday morning. We also admired the architecture at the Museum stop on the subway, and the TIFF line began within feet of where we came back to the pavement after ascending from the subway stop. I think my favorite of the Fest so far. The 16 year old actress who played Hedvig, Odessa Young, was amazing.
Odessa Young
Since we’d started early, we had time to add a film, and we chose a premium showing of Miss You Already – which was fun, but a totally formulaic female buddy movie well-acted by Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, and Paddy Considine.
We got breakfast at the Senator, which was just as good as ever.
We had time to come back and do a little more work before our last film, The Office, directed by Johnnie To. Which was interesting – a play about the financial crisis of 2008, transformed into a 3-D movie musical. It was beautiful to look at, but I couldn’t read the subtitles, and had almost no idea of what was happening. And we got soaked waiting in line.
Today no movies for me – I am going to see Robyn Hitchcock’s last show of a three night stand at the Drake Hotel, this one with the Sadies & Emma Swift. Mark will join me there after our one immovable movie of the day, Families.
My perfect world: grey autumn w/ tram on W Queen, Toronto. Last night @thedrakehotel w/ @emmaswiftsings @TheSadies pic.twitter.com/8kyWtA1BW0
— Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) September 13, 2015
