At Avenue Open Kitchen, We had big plates of eggs and bacon and toast; eggs and peameal bacon for me, and an omelette for Mark. I asked for an orange juice and it was almost a pint, 500ml, and definitely fresh squeezed, maybe not that moment but for sure that day. The potatoes were fresh too, with skins, there were two tubs of them sitting on the counter, parboiled and cubed, ready to be fried.
Mine looked like this but with 2 big slabs of peameal (Canadian) bacon. I only ate one.
We did a combo of street car and walking back to the AirBNB, stopping at Whole Foods for bananas for the morning & some ice cream to stash for later.
The middle movie of the day was Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater’s remake of Un Bout De Souffle. Definitely our most cinophile, or cineaste, more properly I suppose, movie of the festival. Definitely fun, and possibly the best part was a blond Zoey Deutch playing Jean Seburg speaking a wonderful mix of French with an American accent and English, that one imagines is what the real Jean would’ve sounded like. And she was a lot less tortured than Kristin Stewart who we saw as Seburg in 2019, although of course filming Breathless was probably a happier time in the real Jean’s life.
We added Swiped, with Lily James as Whitney Wolfe Herd, the woman tech entrepreneur who worked on the dating app Tinder and founded Bumble, another dating app. The Hollywood Reporter review called it “unconvincingly uplifting”, which seemed spot on to me. It was just a little too slick and everyone in the movie, especially James, was a little too movie-star thin, and pretty.
In between Nouvelle Vague and Swiped we didn’t have a lot of time, so we walked up to Queen St. and got gelato and walked back to get in line at Roy Thomson Hall eating it, feeling like native Torontonians.