Les Fauteuils d'orchestre (Orchestra Seats)

Today, I went to see the film Les Fauteuils d'Orchestre - translated to English as Orchestra Seats. This is a movie about peoples' lives, and different types of love and/or sex. It's similar to Love Actually, but it's quite different at the same time.

This movie follows the stories of only about three couples, as opposed to eight or nine in Love Actually. And each of these three couples have a different form of art that they like. One couple is a concert pianist and his wife, who is a former cellist, who gave up her career so that she can fully dedicate herself to forwarding his husband's career. However, the husband is burning out from all the playing that he's doing, and he wants to take a break by living in a country house, playing for people who don't have access to music education, like in hospitals, orphanages, etc. Another couple is a young female who broke up with her boyfriend, who then stumbles across a guy whom she starts to like. This guy ends up being the son of the art broker who's selling everything, for his retirement. This art broker is also sugar daddy to this really young girl. The kicker is that this young girl had a three month affair with the art broker's son.

Most of these people in the movie are related because they either work in music, drama, or the cafe that's close to the concert hall and the drama building. The people in non romantic relationships are Valérie Lemercier, who plays a bipolar actress in a very famous soap opera, and she has this relationship that's similar to a love/hate relationship with her agent. She also meets this director who works with this really nasty writer/producer.

I also saw this movie with Flavio, the guy whom I met last Friday at Lambda. He's a nice guy, he's in my opinion, attractive. We went on a walk last Sunday, and he invited me to go to this thing at MusiquePlus for Evanescence, but I couldn't make it because I had to teach. However, we did see this film together.

I also discovered that he likes Lorie, and Audrey de Montigny. He's very much into CDs, like myself. He bought a copy of Audrey's new CD for me, which I paid him back for. We both like Audrey so much that we are planning to go to her CD launch party. I don't know what Flavio thinks of me. He has told me that he thinks I'm a nice guy, but he doesn't make any moves regarding hugs or whatever. Today, I made the effort of shaking his hand.

Also, Louis at the YMCA, I found out that for his birthday, he spent his birthday relatively quiet, and that he just dined with his friends. Now, he could have not told me the whole truth, but he doesn't seem like that type. He didn't mention any partner or wife, children... However, I think that the YMCA trains you to be non-heterosexist. Who knows.