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Sixty years removed from his college days, Thomas Myles still remembers what it was like to live in a newly-built Eliot House. He recalls the "biddies" who made his bed, the separate menus for every meal and the waitstaff that served them. He talks nostalgically of architecture and wood carvings...
Meanwhile, a veteran waitstaff dishes out Charlie's lore along with the daily specials. Lorrie Grey tends bar in the restaurant and Joe Maher presides over the sports bar upstairs, where patrons gather along the bar or spread out across tables...
Technically, the movie looks by turns stunning and plain, whichever is appropriate. In some shots, Leigh prefers to give the actors full attention, ignoring all else (which perhaps led to the scene between Cynthia and Hortense in a restaurant that is completely devoid of waitstaff and customers). But in others, Leigh has composed the screen with the care of a painter: here, Maurice sits brooding in a bar such that we expect to see a glass of absinthe; there, a ringing phone becomes a demon in the dark as Cynthia nervously approaches...