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Quotable quotes from VFF opening weekend

If there’s one thing you can count on at a film festival, it’s the memorable one-liners you’ll hear on and off screen. My favourite so far is a line by Juliette Lewis , one of the stars of Max McGuire ’s Foreverland.

If there’s one thing you can count on at a film festival, it’s the memorable one-liners you’ll hear on and off screen.

My favourite so far is a line by Juliette Lewis, one of the stars of Max McGuire’s Foreverland.

“Ego eggs cracked into an omelette of enlightenment,” says her character, an eccentric aunt recalling a domestic dispute.

Two others also happen to be from Foreverland, which was notable for many reasons, particularly for its witty screenplay.

“Cancer is the Coca-Cola of killer diseases,” declares Laurence Leboeuf’s character.

Matt Frewer’s character, a droll funeral director also got big laughs at Sunday’s screening when he deadpanned while showing off caskets to Max Thieriot’s morbidly curious protagonist: “Repeat customers are such a rarity in this business.”

And from the real world:

A female patron, annoyed because her husband wasn’t with her at a Sunday screening, overheard saying: “He’s watching the Stupidbowl.”

“House of Pleasures is the most inappropriately titled movie at this festival,” said an unidentified festivalgoer at the gala.

“I didn’t realize I was coming to a funeral,” quipped Urs V. Strausak, Consul General of Switzerland, after Iain Hooey delivered a silly faux eulogy for celluloid before the erotic opening feature started.

“John! What happened? Did you f@#$ her?,” John Landis, laughingly recalling a phone call from the late John Belushi in response to a scathing review Landis received from then-New York Times film critic Janet Maslin.