红酒·绿茶 / Red Wine & Green Tea / Vin Rouge et Thé Vert

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As a long-time Tintin fan, I was so excited to learn that Montreal would be the first to screen The Adventures of Tintin (2011)  in North America. So I wasted no time, "not a moment to lose" as Tintin would say, in buying the tickets online at my favorite downtown movie theatre,   Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal . I was a little bit concerned because the title of the movie was presented in French, "Les aventures de Tintin", but after 3 years living in the very bilingual city that is Montreal, I have got used to people switching between or mixing English and French all the time. "It's downtown, the heart of anglophone culture", I said to myself, "even if they were so obliged to show Tintin in its absolutely original tongue, French, they would at least  show it with English subtitles to be politically correct." I was dead wrong. In hindsight, I was in denial that I made a mistake. Even when we walked into the room with a "VF" sign,