Slices of Pai.

The slightest sighs escape my lips
once in a while. Not that it matters
I no longer listen anyway
to “that place” where sighs come from
It is insisting to be mum
no longer persisting to be heard.

Still a sigh should mean something
If not a storm brewing
then maybe stirrings, feelings
meaningless and absurd.

09.23.11

The time will come 
when, with elation 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror 
and each will smile at the other’s welcome, 

and say, sit here. Eat. 
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 

all your life, whom you ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart. 
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, 

the photographs, the desperate notes, 
peel your own image from the mirror. 
Sit. Feast on your life. 

The Alliance Francaise de Cebu, where I’m taking my weekly French lessons, will be holding the Fête de la Francophonie on Thursday, March 10 to kick off celebrations for the Francophonie Month. Francophonie is an international organization of polities and governments with French as the mother or customary language. Je suis excitée! 

Anyway, each class had to come up with a project to be exhibited on the fête itself and we had decided on making a review of our favorite French movies.  Of course, I volunteered to design the project for everyone, because I’m OC and a super nerd like that.  I can only hope my classmates are fine with it, haha.

Okay, I’m so not an artist, but the most important thing is having tried. I learned that from James Franco :) *Swoon*. Also, I had the most gleeful fun doing it, staying up until the wee hours of the morning and surviving with caffeine the rest of my (so-called) waking hours in the office. Alors, je suis si heureuse!

The challenging part was not being able to use Illustrator and Photoshop when doing the individual reviews because my trial period for both software has expired, boo-hoo. Thank God for freewares Photoscape and Inkscape.

In english, simply “Our favorite French films”

My review!

Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (2004) de Jean-Pierre Jeunet 

Un Prophète (2009) de Jacques Audiard

Banlieue 13-Ultimatum (2009) de Patrick Alessandrin

I wanted with all of my heart to do the review for the movie below, of course. But I had to let my friend Cass do it because it’s the only French film she has seen.  Hmm how about we start a French movie club? Oh, Alliance already has that every 2nd Friday of the month. It’s free admission for everyone, by the way!

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001) de Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Le Pianiste (2001) de Michael Haneke

Chocolat (2000) de Lasse Hallström

My classmates and I pose with the finished poster. I wanted more done, like cut out small squares at the edges so that the poster looks like one big film strip, but I guess I can only impose my OC-ness so much.  Didn’t want to become Classmatezilla! 

I can’t wait to see what the other classes have come up with and looking forward to the free food and wine (surely) on Thursday. Will be snapping pictures, mais oui!