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Had lunch with BH today (shrimp and mushroom dish with cheese, orzo and asparagus, fruit, cake, and juice). Delicious! GH and I watched an Almovodar film, Bad Education. He was the director on Volver (which we saw about one year ago, almost on the same dates). The Education film was difficult to follow, but was not uninteresting though. It dealt with today's impacts of past indiscretions by priests, told by stories within stories. I think I would like to see it again now that I've been through it once and can understand the plot shifts. There are intense sexual scenes that deal with issues of homosexuality, trans-behavior, and drugs and violence. Not a film for the light of heart.

The man who played the lead also appeared in several of the other films I've seen over the past year (Babel, Blindness, Dog Lovers). He's quite young, but has been in 40+ films.

Discovered that there is a film distribution outfit, Film Movement, that sends out monthly DVDs with film festival winners. Many of these films are in the library and a "Film Movement" search brings them all up. Makes finding such films easier.

Movement teacher has injured her lower back. So, no movement class tomorrow. Hope she is recovering quickly. Should have a PD class tomorrow though. Hope so!