On Monday Hilary and I went to the Fifth Avenue Cinema to see The Taste of Things directed by Tran Anh Hung and with Juliette Binoche and with her former paramour Benoit Magimel. The icing on this delicious cake of a film is young actress Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire. In the film she is given a spoon to taste and she is able to identify all the ingredients and spices with an incredibly lovely but serious face.

The first 30 minutes puts you into a kitchen where you rarely see faces but hands and lots of cooking. I suspect that vegans could not possibly watch this film as there is a lot of disembowelling of animals.

Because I worked for many years as stills man at the CBC I know excellent camera work when I see it. This film is stellar. In the closing scenes the camera rotates 360 degrees 3 times without wavering up or down and surprising images show up that I will not reveal here.

My daughter Hilary inherited from my Rosemary,and perhaps even from me, her father, a good quantity of snobbishness. I enjoy  almost weekly our companionship where we see good films in real film theatres.

After our film we like to go to a pizza joint on the corner of Howe and Davie where the staff is Filipino and Latin American. This combination of a fine film and pizza has become a comfortable tradition. I drive Hilary to her home in Burnaby and I drive back knowing my Niño and Niña will be waiting for me.

Firecrust Neapolitan Pizzeria - 808 Davie corner with Howe.