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This weekend I made a much-needed visit home. I saw this film at Toronto's new cultural film centre (heavily corporate but at least we have one). The influence of Xavier Dolan's favourite directors like Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai are pretty obvious, but he's still offering something new. I think he is the first director to truly create moments on film (and not patronizingly) that are descriptive of 21st century youth. It feels like a plot - however trivial - straight out of mine or my friends' lives. And he makes use of some pretty killer songs, like The Knife's "Pass This On".
Support French-Canadian cinema. Support young directors. Go see it!
On another note, recently I have been thinking a lot about What I Am Going To Do After School. I am still utterly absorbed with my thesis, but school life is starting to feel a little dull. I'm hit by the realization that I need to be doing more things that make me feel like I'm living a real life. It may also soon be time to change the name of this blog...
Settling in for some bedtime reading. Why is Lefebvre so cool?
You may have guessed correctly that school is in full swing. What you may not have guessed is that I am writing my undergraduate thesis (or maybe you did, but anyway - YIKES!) Getting film developed from the summer is getting piled under a longer and longer list of group meetings, pseudo-intellectual conversations with dearly missed friends, 2304982340932 books from the library and unnecessary spending sprees at farmer's market (it's harvest time!).
The closest I got to Iceland was Keyflavik Airport. I know now more than ever that I must go back.
Two hour transfer at CPH on my way home. I pretended to write my paper while really I tried not to cry.
It feels so strange to be home. Been floating through the last few days; cleaning out my teenage bedroom, eating chilean japanese chinese and mexican food, avoiding my very near birthday, hiding at my parents' house, sleeping way too much. Don't feel like I'm fully here yet...
Two artists I discovered during my travels that I really like and two books that I would really like to read.
p.s. I'm home.
This weekend I made a much-needed visit home. I saw this film at Toronto's new cultural film centre (heavily corporate but at least we have one). The influence of Xavier Dolan's favourite directors like Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai are pretty obvious, but he's still offering something new. I think he is the first director to truly create moments on film (and not patronizingly) that are descriptive of 21st century youth. It feels like a plot - however trivial - straight out of mine or my friends' lives. And he makes use of some pretty killer songs, like The Knife's "Pass This On". 
