An Evening at Foreign Cinema

The Patio at Foreign Cinema. This is where you go to see the movies playing on their makeshift screen (a wall). It was still daylight and had to wait for the sun to set completely for the movie to start. That night the Kurosawa film "Ran" was playing.


At last, we got our food and wine (food took quite a while) and the movie finally started. It soon became clear that this setup would not really allow us to really WATCH the film. A disappointment which led me to wonder why they would play films there anyway... I felt it was insulting to a great film maker like Kurosawa to have his work of art playing in the background as hordes of people pigged and chattered away, barley giving the film a glance. What's the point, I wondered.


Anyway, due to the tasteless food, and inability to really watch the movie, we decided to take some more pictures... I played around trying to get some interesting shots using the contrasty lighting of this restaurant. This one of Ellie turned out particularly well.


Here is Yumi (right) and I being silly...


Samur-Champigny is one of Yumi's favorites. It was indeed quite a tasty wine. Full bodied and rich!


Oh gosh. Although the food here was awful (we may have just ordered the wrong things) the flour-less chocolate cake I had for dessert was AMAZING! The whole time I ate it i was in heaven. It was thick, rich and just the right balance of moisture and dryness. The texture was the most appealing part, it had a little snap to it, although still creamy! Dunno how they did it!