This was an interesting watch. Brutal, dark secrets that everyone both conceals and knows, the desire to hurt and be hurt, betrayals, taboos, for a bit you might suspect it's satire, but it's not - if you're paying attention. Like - "The Office", by which I refer to the original - was satire only if you had never worked in an office.

I was intrigued by it, a little bit baffled, certainly Verhoeven's richest work that I've seen, driven more by the people and circumstance, less "2-D" and richer characters than his other films.

It reminded me how much I like, how I need to watch more European cinema.

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Category: Film

I found this again, in my little walks downtown. Closed now - indefinitely, but I'd forgotten they existed - perhaps I'd discovered about 15 or 20 years ago, was pleasantly surprised at the quality and selection, the knowledgeable proprietor, then - somehow or another - it got removed from my mental map and rounds, my active mental map at least, somehow I see it and know it's shown up in dreams, dream-ja-vu...

Seeing it again was a bit of a jog for my memory - the cafe beside it looks like it would be a cozy place to hunker down with a fine discovery, but there's no place to hunker down now but at home, I have the books, but not the atmosphere...

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Category: Calgary

A partial list of events that are definitely not happening in Calgary anytime soon.

 

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before the Covid-19 Pandemonium, walking on 8th (Stephen) avenue - the few independent restaurants, empty, but oddly enough Cactus Club is full...Anyways, the pictures tell the tale...

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Category: Calgary
  1. Bunnies
  2. of you in the rose garden...
  3. Which personality are you?
  4. Bad Actors, remember your friends...