Went to a special members only screening of the Canadian movie Trigger at the Bell Lightbox. Molly Parker and the late Tracy Wright play the members of a rock band named Trigger, who broke up acrimoniously and now have reunited for the first time after ten years. Each has her demons, one with alcohol abuse and the other with drugs. The movie depicts their running conversation through the evening while they explore their past and current relationship with each other.This movie seemed all the more poignant in light of the fact that Tracy Wright was dying of pancreatic cancer while making this film. Her heartfelt monologues about illness and death take on an extra meaning, and makes you wonder what she was feeling as she was delivering those lines. Her real life husband made a cameo in the movie, which was filmed in a rush (9 days over 5 weeks) and serves as a final tribute to this brave actress. Tracy Wright died several months before the movie was released.
Filmed in Toronto, the movie features some recognizable locations including the upscale restaurant Canoe, Allen Gardens Greenhouse (which was also used in Atom Egoyan's Chloe), a school in Etobicoke, and a park near the DVP. I always get a bit of nerdish pleasure in trying to spot the Toronto landmarks while watching a movie.
Following the movie, we dined at Luma and tried the Tim Burton
themed Creature Comforts menu. One companion and I had the Alice in Wonderland Magic Mushroom Lasagna, while the other had the "Big Fish" meal, which was seared tuna on salad. No one was brave enough to try the Mrs Lovett's Meat Pie of the day, in case it contained the Sweeney Todd special ingredient! We ended with the Willy Wonka inspired dessert, consisting of a dark chocolate truffle cake, topped with peanut butter ice cream, caramelized bananas, candied nuts and a cocoa tuile cookie. It was as delicious as it was beautiful.
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