Tuesday, we slept in a bit, then walked to the St Lawrence Market and bought eggs, butter, ham, bacon, lettuce, little tomatoes, a few more bagels, a few plums. The we came back to the apartment and had breakfast and headed off for our first movie, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her/Him. It’s kind of a twofer – the story of a New York couple’s relationship from both the woman and the man’s points of view, sequentially. It was long to sit through both sides at once – a little over 3 hours – but less repetitious than you might think, since the two lovers were not together all that much during the time span of the movie. And it was really entertaining to see the slight differences in how they each remembered the same scene. Like when one of them says, “I love you” and the other remembers that they said, “I know”. When they finally talk about their baby who died, the guy remembers saying he had my eyes; the woman remembers him saying the baby had her eyes. There was some really good casting – Ciaran Hinds & James MacAvoy made a really believable father and son; William Hurt married to Isabelle Huppert as Jessica Chastain’s parents.
Then we just hung out at the mall and Starbucks till our next film, Tom at the Farm. Which I think is so far both of our least favorite movie of the fest. Creepy rural dysfunctional family, and a young guy falling into a disturbingly abusive relationship with the older brother of his dead boyfriend. But maybe we’re just hicks – Tom was directed by and starred a popular young Canadian, Xavier Dolan, and won a big prize at Venice.
We came back to the apartment and had breakfast for dinner – cheese omelette, salad, little tomatoes, and ice cream with chocolate chips for dessert.
