Another day, another wedding task… today was the day of the cake. At least cake testing is not an onerous task, especially when it’s a great big chocolate mud-cake that you’ve decided on! Under quarter of an hour, into the shop, check the pictures, point to the preferred shape and decoration, wave arms wildly around the head and leave. Either we’re easily pleased, or we know what we like…
Jo’s movie with friends fell through, so the two of us headed into the city to see the Gleaners and I, something I’ve had on my “to view” list for some time. Unlike a lot of movies on this list, I actually got to see it before the season finished! As the IMDB says:
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director…
I think they mean picturesque1, but you get the idea. A touching film, it struck a lot of resonances with me on the subjects of waste, on recycling, and on the stupidity of a lot of foods’ “use-by dates. One amusing thing I noticed was that with the French dialogue, naturally all the units were metric — or Francs — but the sub-titles had been translated into American, with pounds, inches and dollars.
Footnotes
1 Aha, no they don’t. picaresque is a word and it means what they want it to mean.
