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Our last day in Toronto… All packed up and ready to go home to Cambridge. This morning I mostly slept through Palimpsest, a detective film with an unsatisfyingly typical twist. been done too many times. This afternoon was a bit better with Retrieval, about a young guy who gets work with the Polish mafia, loses [...]

Today we slept in… I’ve been travelling now for nearly two months solid, so it was nice to get the full 8 hours finally. we discovered a great cafe near the hotel called Il Mercurio that has excellent coffee and croissants. Then we went to see another Romanian film, How I Spent the End of [...]

Four more movies! The first was a Tajik film that came off surprisingly well, To get to heaven first you have to die. I love hearing the Tajik & Russian and noting all the language subtleties. The story played well too. Next was Lights in the Dusk, a Finnish film that had some Russian at [...]

This evening we didn’t have tickets to anything so we stood in the “rush” line for Ten Canoes. I bailed though when someone offered a ticket to another film, Climates, which i’d wanted to see more. David & Nick did get into Ten Canoes, read David’s blog for his review. Climates was a beautiful Turkish [...]

It’s annual canada time. This is my second time in Toronto and the first time i had one of the best meals of my life. Well, last night we had an even better meal! Opus, like the review said, is a work of art… several in fact, as every dish presented was beautifully presented and [...]