Sunday, March 10, 2024

We were looking forward to a week of movies at the Film Festival – our first movies in about three years. We’ve always enjoyed the Film Festival, even in the early days when we had movies in two different locations sometimes three times a day.

This year’s selection was a disappointment for us. So much so that we opted not to even go to some of them. There were a lot of documentaries shown in prime time; in the past the documentaries were usually shown at the matinees. Some of them could only be called art films where the emphasis was on either the way the film was shot or the landscape in which they were shot. Some of them were focused on specific subjects that weren’t too relevant to us – agricultural diversity and undersea mining.

One of the movies that we really wanted to see showed the afternoon of the big snowfall so, for safety reasons, we chose to stay at home. Fortunately it has been rescheduled for this week so we’ll have a chance to see it.

Pat went to one movie that I decided to skip and I went to a movie that Pat skipped. It would seem like a waste of our full pass but even if we didn’t see all the movies our payment supported the film society.

On a brighter note we had a lovely brunch at our favourite restaurant – The Forest Bistro. Today was the first day of their new feature – Sunday brunch. There was a good turnout when we were there; I hope they had enough business to keep it running.