The 20th of November is a holiday here, commemorating the beginning of the Revolution in 1910. There's a nearby street named in honor of it:
It fell on a Sunday this year, which is the usual day of rest, so on our calendar Monday the 21st is a "descanso obligatorio:" literally an obligatory rest day. I like that phrase, even though it's not really enforced--the city construction guys were on the job, raising dust.
We celebrated our obligatory day of rest by going to our 3rd Tarkovski film, Stalker. We left last night's, Solaris, in the middle. Too slow, too talky, too pointless. Today we felt obliged to sit through the whole 163 minutes. I'm not sure if we'll go to the next two. What kind of faux cineastes are we?
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