Tea with Fannie and Don, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
After spending time grading and doing administrative work for my classes, I spent a wonderful afternoon with Fannie and Don in their magnificent apartment with the Views south and west of Oakland. We enjoyed
Black Turkish tea with sugar and lemon juice;
tea sandwiches with cucumber and mascapone cheese OR
savory chickpea spread;
Auntie Belle's slivered almond tea bread;
homemade applesauce (from local apples and Vietnamese cinnamon);
and lively conversation.
We spoke about GASP, a local group, our observations of Oakland and Pittsburgh, politics in general, and Pittsburgh visitors' groups. Tom was supposed to join us for high tea, having acknowledged the event early the in week but never getting back to me, after a reminder Friday morning.
We chatted until after dark, then I called Maureen and Karina and we watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg). A lovely movie, with tunes familiar to me through their English lyrics. I commented how the movie, from just a generation ago, showed the social issues of the day in broad, bold brushstrokes: How the condition of the protagoniste resulted in responses from her family and others that were typical of that day, and how similar conditions today would elicit very different responses, be they of the conditions of characters/actors or of the actors themselves.
Labels: cinema, citizenship, dining, friends, international culture, philosophical
posted by Grace @ 11/16/2008 04:00:00 PM
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