Today I woke up at 1pm on account of my nasty cold. After some lounging in bed and gobbling of spaghetti, I went out with Margaret and Sarah to see a movie. We were trying to go see this Truffaut movie at the good old filmotheque, except so were about 34598734230975 other people, so we didn't get in.
Luckily, there are a lot of other cinemas in the neighborhood, so we popped into one down the road. One of my secret movie fantasies is to just go to a movie knowing nothing about it. Not who is in it, what it is about, anything. When we walked into the Champ0 (quite a deal might I add, only 3.5 Euro), Parfum de Femme was starting and that was that.
The movie started, and there were subtitles and the charachters were speaking in Italian. After about ten minutes we realized that this was not going to be a temporary thing, but rather that the entire movie was definitely going to be in Italian. Of course, we pick the only movie not in french so we can hear the italian, read the french, and pray for our english to translate. Suprisingly, it was actually very easy, but still laughable.
We also realized about ten minutes in that this is the original Italian version of scent of a woman. I had only vaguely heard of the American re-make and I don't know much about Italian film, but this movie was phenomenally amazing. Basically it is about a man who was injured in the war who is on a journey to meet his friend in Naples and carry out a pact. At time it is heartbreaking, at others hilarious, but it has quickly escalated to one of my favorite movies of all time. I reccommend it for anyone!
Anyways, its now a relaxing Sunday night and I am about to take care of some last minute homework and tidy up my room.
Goodnight!
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Now you are tri-lingual! If you take a Jack Street class upon returning to Beloit, you will experience more Italian and French mixing (I know from personal experience)
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