ALL MY PUNY SORROWS – directed by Michael McGowan – SPOILERS
Somewhere in Toronto, Yoli (Alison Pill) is trying to write a novel, and finding it difficult. What little she has written sounds a lot like Shelley Long on CHEERS, but one part of it soon becomes relevant (if not accurate). “Suffering,” she writes, “is something that is passed from one generation to the next, like flexibility, grace, or colourblindness.” Yoli’s husband calls asking her to sign the divorce papers, which is something she has been avoiding, because the message is reluctantly delivered by her daughter Nora (Amybeth McNulty). Then, after having sex with Finbar (Michael Musi) (whom she will later describe as a “grotesquely undiscerning lover”) Yoli learns that her sister Elfrieda has tried to kill herself.
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