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Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Ainsi que je l'avais promis, voici un nouveau billet pour célébrer le 175e anniversaire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. J'ai trouvé cette photo sur Facebook (Samuel Archibald, pour ne pas le nommer, l'avait téléchargée et trouvée je ne sais où). Mais enfin bref, voici diverses bouteilles de Saguenay Dry, le ginger ale qui était le cola rérional, avant de disparaître pour cause de pingrerie corporatiste. Mon petit frère avait blogué là dessus en 2006. Je l'ai mentionné dans un billet en septembre 2011, intitulé Saveurs mortes. Que ça n'existe plus est carrément tragique. La saveur n'était peut-être pas si tant fameuse que ça, enfin c'est un ginger ale, rien de transcendant, mais une journée chaude d'été ou en apéro avant une tourtière, ça avait un certain cachet. Je me souviens des deux derniers modèles de bouteille, à droite sur la photo. Le S à moitié limace rouge psychédélique, à moitié serpent de mer saguenéen, ça avait de la classe.
This is an anecdotal and utterly geeky post (be warned), but it is also in a way a post meant to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the region I am from. I mostly write about it in French, I thought I would do it in English too. You can see at your right a picture of Chicoutimi, the city I am from. It is now a borough of Ville de Saguenay, but this is a stupid, stupid, stupid rename. For any practical purpose, Saguenay is, in fact... Chicoutimi. As my readership knows already, Chicoutimi means "where the water is deep" in Montagnais. Freely translated into English, it could be Waterdeep, which is the name of a city in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons. I never liked Forgotten Realms. I prefer settings created by the players and DM. But as a player, I always thought this was an amusing coincidence. As you can see on the picture, Chicoutimi does not look one bit like a medieval or pseudo-medieval city, but it does have deep water.
This may sound strange, but I am going to plug a movie that I have not seen and I have little chances to find here in the UK. Or indeed elsewhere. I am talking about Die Laaste Tango, the first movie directed by South African crime writer Deon Meyer. I have been following the shooting through the author/director's page on Facebook.It was released Thursday the 20th. The story is both a crime thriller and a tragedy, about a cop hunted by a serial killer he once beat up to an inch of his life and a woman dying of cancer. You can read more about it here. All fan interest aside, this is a fascinating starting point. And then I watched the trailer and I was sold. Like in the novels of Meyer, gruesome violence mixes lives alongside tenderness. Of course I cannot say if a movie will be great from a mere trailer, but we might have a at least a very solid film here, a thriller with soul. Have a look at the trailer and see what you think: