A Girl With a Sword

summer day

Today was a long, hot Carolina day. All afternoon it looked like rain, so I decided not to walk to campus. Yesterday Hope and I got drenched on our way back from the coffee shop and all the stuff that was in my backpack is now drying on the floor of my apartment. So I tidied the house in between looking up stuff on wikipedia. I do have stuff I'm working on right now, but my brain is so dead. I get this horrible PMS ennui and I just don't know what to do about it, plus, due to the nature of the illness, I have a hard time caring. But I went to see a movie tonight. I love the local indie theater because I just hang the schedule up and go see what looks good, which is almost everything, but usually I don't know anything about the movie (if I'm lucky I know what time it starts . . .) and I love being able to go to a random movie and loving it. Tonight the film was Fauteuils d'orchestre.

It was a beautiful ensemble drama about a theater in Paris and the bar across the street from it. It was mainly about one girl who worked at the bar, played by Cecile De France. At first I was afraid she was going to be one of those "magic girls" like Natalie Portman in Garden State, but she really stayed on the ground and held things together. It wasn't a fantastic movie, but it was quietly good. I had a hard time, though, with the subtitles. There seemed to be a lot of slang or something that made me realize that sometimes subtitles are just inefficient. Damn it, why didn't I learn French?