Last night I watched the 2009 movie Queen to Play (IMDB 6.8) starring Kevin Kline on Netflix. Here’s a summary:
On Corsica, Hélène ride her
bike to a seaside inn where she's a chambermaid; on her afternoons off, she
takes the bus to the next town to clean houses. One morning she watches a
couple play chess on the veranda while she cleans their room, fascinated by them
and curious if its chess that brings such intimacy. She buys her husband a set
for his birthday; he's indifferent, so she tries to teach herself, at night,
while he sleeps. She asks one of her clients, Dr. Kröger, if he'll teach her;
he grudgingly agrees then finds she has aptitude. To her family, she's strayed
beyond her class.
There were parts that were a little corny but at least the
chess scenes were accurate. And, per
IMDB, Kevin Kline is fluent in French and I’m glad I used IP Changer or I don’t
know what language I would have gotten my subtitles in.
I went to bed at 11, got up once during the night and
woke/got up at 7:40.
I had breakfast at the hotel and was at LM by about
10:30. The first person I saw was
Augusto so we started playing chess. As
soon as I sat down I saw Bob, by himself, having an Empanada. At 1:30 I ordered a couple empandas and Cokes
for us for 8mil. We finally stopped
playing at 8:30pm when all the restaurants were closed, they were putting away
the tables and chairs and they had dimmed the lights. The final score was 14 wins for me, 2 for
Augusto. I asked Augusto if he knew
where I could buy a chess table and he said downtown and he wrote down Center Coltejer Avenue
- Beach. I just googled it and the
tallest building in Medellin is the Coltejer
building in El Centro
at La Playa Avenue & Junin. (La
Playa is Spanish for beach so that makes sense.)
Since I didn’t have any dinner I stopped at Fresco Pan and managed to buy a slice of ham & cheese
pizza just as they were closing.
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