February 16, 2017
Whirling in Circles (from The Splendid Sampler series) sounds just about perfect for a seven-year old!
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Party tonight
Thursday, February 16, 2017
I skipped the very first film of the Festival yesterday morning. There was very little information about it and the little I knew told me that it was a series of short films. It didn’t sound all that interesting so I chose to stay at home. I worked on a few Bingo blocks but spent the afternoon hand stitching bindings, sleeves and labels on a couple of my quilts.
I’m missing the film tonight too because it is the Guild’s 30th Anniversary dinner. I think it will be fun but I also would have liked to have seen the film, Almodóvar’s julieta, based on an Alice Munro short story.
Instead, I’m getting dressed up (dress, nylons, new boots) for a catered dinner and trunk show. We were asked to bring one of our oldest quilts. I’ll be taking my Mariner’s Compass, from the first quilting class I took at the Guild.
Happy Birthday Kevin
February 10, 2017
With the name Traveler, this card might have been better suited to Brody. But I’m hoping that Kevin may have a chance to travel to some exotic places again this year as he follows the water polo circuit.
2017 Film Festival – Day Two
Birds of Passage
This is a beautifully told story of two young friends. When Cathy is given an un-hatched egg from her father as a birthday present, she is told she must be present when the shell is cracked open. But instead, her friend, Margaux is the first to see the duckling and from then on the duckling considers Margaux to be its mother.
When the parents feel it best that the duck be given away the girls hatch (pardon the pun) a plot to return the duck to the wild.
Volcano
Maria and her parents live on a small farm on the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala. It is arranged that Maria will marry her father’s employer but, while her betrothed is working in the city, Maria finds herself pregnant from a very short affair and the father of the child has left her behind. Although her mother does her best to abort the baby, her family comes to accept that “it was meant to be”. Disaster strikes when Maria is bitten by a snake and the man she is to marry appears to get rid of the baby.
It’s complicated I know. The subtle details are hard to explain – Maria and the child’s father really weren’t in a loving relationship, her betrothed appears to have unspoken reasons for wanting the marriage, and there are subtle reminders all the way through of the way women are treated.
This is the first film ever made using the traditional Guatemalan language, so that’s good.