As of Thursday, Sept. 13, we’ve been here one week. I still have that “we just got here” feeling, though.
Thursday’s movies didn’t start till 3:00. We paid a visit to Bulldog for coffee, and then I came back to the apartment to work, and sent Mark off to shop. He went to the Eaton Centre, Toronto’s big downtown shopping mall, and came back with a Terry Pratchett paper back. The Roots long-sleeved Ts, though nice & soft, were too pricey at $60 Canadian.
We saw our first movie of the day in one of the TIFF Bell Lightbox cinemas – very nice space, good screen, comfy seats, $4.50 bottled waters. Augustine – about Belle Epoch hysterics and a doctor who studied them, based on a true story – was beautiful to look at and a little too unspoken and mysterious. I liked what the director, Alice Winocour, said at the beginning probably better than the film – we know that both Dr. Charcot and Augustine existed; we don’t know what happened between them. After watching the film we still don’t really know – we just got to observe from the outside in a lovely way.
Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière – André Brouillet – 1887
Before Augustine, we went to eat at the Chew Chew’s Diner. I had their eggs Florentine – the eggs were poached perfectly and there was lots of spinach and the potatoes were greasy and good, but I didn’t really like the food service style, mayonnaise-y Hollandaise that was liberally applied.
Our closer for the night was The Thieves, a Korean thriller about jewel thieves, with lots of car chases and explosions and people jumping across the roofs of high rise apartment buildings. Everyone was double crossing everyone else, and it certainly kept us awake until 11:15. We bought a carton of Ben & Jerry’s on the walk back, and were full of ice cream and in bed by 12:30.
