Gentle readers (or otherwise),
I am finishing a nearly weeklong stint in San Francisco, my first trip to the City by the Bay. I've found it a wonderful city, one I think I'd return to if given the choice (last summer's adventure in Madrid, not so much). There were lots of good places to eat, it was easy to get around in, we got lucky with the weather (warm and dry, in the low 60s), and much to see (Golden Gate Park and the ocean, where a novice surfer tried to drown near where we were yesterday makes for a good story).
As for today's movie review -- The Rabbi's Cat. It's a French film, thus subtitled, and animated. The animation was hand done (at least one hopes so), which adds to the movie's charm.
Critics are giving it a score like 93 on Rotten Tomatoes.
That's high. Although the cat, who has no name, and, of course, talks (it seems due to eating the family's obnoxious parrot) is sometimes funny, it's not clear what we are to make of all the theologizing in the movie. Not surprising from a rabbi's cat, one suspects, but there are series of scenes that question god, the nature of Judaism, the nature of Islam, and a whole series of Judeo myths about Africa. But the movie plays with these, never leaving us with anything but questions...and those from a cat.
It's an amusing use of 90 minutes, and you may leave thinking about the nature of your faith (or your cat's faith -- it's clear from the movie that dogs are faithless), but it's 3 and a half star entertainment, at best, not the 4 stars the Rotten Tomatoes score gives it.
This weekend -- a choice between Parker and Hansel and Gretel.
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