WFC Belgium: Le tout nouveau testament

This is what it looks like at the Arctic Circle.

This film is such a shameless crowd pleaser. I can easily see how some people would find it just unbearable. But I really enjoyed it. Forced whimsy and all.

I haven’t seen Forrest Gump, but this is how I would imagine a French version would be like.

So, so French.

I mean Belgian. Belgian!

I’ll rate it on the number of hankies needed to watch this film:

The Brand New Testament. Jaco Van Dormael. 2015. Belgium.

Bianca Castafiore

  • 1 part amaretto
  • 1 part Sambuca
  • 1 part Galliano

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

I thought this would be just horrible. It isn’t!

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My New Concert Blog

I put the SD card into my Ubuntu laptop, copied some files over, and then unplugged the SD card without ejecting it.  I thought it would be safe because I hadn’t altered anything.

But when I replugged the card, it was invalid.  And fsck.exfat on Linux knows nothing.  It’s worse than John Snow.

I plugged it into an OS X machine, though, and said “fsck_exfat /dev/disk3s1” or something, and it said that it fixed it.  Except all the MP4 files were truncated at 128KB.

So there’s no second set.

Oh, well.

 

WFC Turkey: Kış Uykusu

Excellent actors. It’s almost annoyingly real. The (many, many, many) discussions and arguments are just like being there.

Aydın is such a reasonable monster.

This is a very good film. Almost every scene is a pleasant surprise. The scene with the money, though, was so clearly signalled I could read it from space.

So not totally cliché free. But still…

Winter Sleep. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 2014. Turkey.

Golden Slipper

  • 3 parts Yellow Chartreuse
  • 1 part apricot brandy
  • 1 egg yolk

Shake with ice and train into a cocktail glass.

Very interesting flavour. It’s like an anisey egg nog. I think.

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WFC Portugal: Cavalo Dinheiro

This is a very original film. If it reminds me of anything, it’s the films of Marguerite Duras from the 70s. Somehow.

But I’m not quite feeling it. Sorree.

Horse Money. Pedro Costa. 2014. Portugal.

Portuguese Daisy recipe

  • 12 parts port
  • 6 parts brandy
  • 6 parts lemon juice
  • 1 part caster sugar
  • 1 part grenadine

Shake with ice and strain into a low glass. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

Man, that’s sour. I dumped some more sugar into it, and it became drinkable. But not, perhaps, good…

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