{"id":10938,"date":"2015-09-13T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:06:55","slug":"tiff-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/tiff-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, TIFF at 40 as they are calling this one. \"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re 4 movies in:<\/p>\n

The first one was Friday, at 6:00 – Bang Gang (A modern love story)<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Mark did conference on Friday morning, and I worked. We met at our favorite coffee place, Bulldog<\/a>, which had moved, as their website says, “a 45-second stroll from our old location.” We went and got Thai<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Next, The Daughter<\/a>, an update of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck<\/a>. At 8:45AM, in a nice theater<\/a> that’s at University of Toronto\u2019s downtown campus. We saw Southcliffe<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a>, was amazing.<\/p>\n

\"Odessa<\/a>

Odessa Young<\/p><\/div>\n

Since we’d started early, we had time to add a film, and we chose a premium showing of Miss You Already<\/a> – which was fun, but a totally formulaic female buddy movie well-acted by Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, and Paddy Considine.<\/p>\n

We got breakfast at the Senator<\/a>, which was just as good as ever.<\/p>\n

We had time to come back and do a little more work before our last film, The Office<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

<\/a>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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My perfect world: grey autumn w\/ tram on W Queen, Toronto. Last night @thedrakehotel<\/a> w\/ @emmaswiftsings<\/a> @TheSadies<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8kyWtA1BW0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) September 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n