Film overload - three in one night

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The photo is of a tree tying itself in knots as did some of the people in the films we saw last night. I’ve been mentioning the International Film Festival that has been held in here. Despite our best intentions we weren’t able to see as many of the films as we would have liked. The Festival finished yesterday and we intended to see two films but ended up seeing three. All were well worth watching. The first was set in Tokyo and called Shoplifters. It centred round a family living in poverty in suburban Tokyo. The second was Woman At War about an environmental activist waging a one-woman war against the aluminium industry. This was set in Iceland, a country with very different terrain to Australia. The third was C’est La Vie, a French film which was a whole lot of laughs from beginning to end. The only downside was that we bought a snack from a nearby fast-food place before the last film and I had a seafood salad. Sometimes I have an intolerance to something in seafood and/or Asian dishes and I start to itch badly. Then I come up in welts. This happened last night. Once I realised I was scratching here, there and everywhere, I stopped. Luckily, it didn’t get worse and an anti-histamine when I got home ensured I had a good night’s sleep and I’m fine again this morning.