After dinner last night, we headed over to the Potdeksel for a couple of drinks to celebrate G’s return home after a week-long trip to Italy. As we arrived, we saw a number of people — vaguely dressed up — hovering in the general area, along with a number of large black Land Rovers. We went inside to say hi to Kris and I asked if there was a party going on that evening. In a sense, there was. It was the opening party/event being held at the Stadsschouwburg just down the street for the Nederlands Film Festival. The festival itself starts today, but they had a few introductory events yesterday, it seems.
It turned out that some of the people standing around on the terras (terrace) of the Potdeksel were a bit famous. There was a film producer/director, as well as an actor, Thomas Acda. There was even a personal assistant! It was all so glam. 
G and I proceeded to joke with each other about how he’d been at Lake Como with George — Clooney, that is — but flew in just for the film festival, and how I was working on a documentary film about Utrecht. It was good having him back home to be silly with!
Sadly, I didn’t see any Louboutins; maybe those don’t come out until the last night for the award ceremony. Last night most of the attendees I saw seemed fairly casual, although vaguely trendy. If I remember, I’ll take my camera over to the theater on award night and play paparazzi.
The large Land Rover in black or silver seemed to be the official rental car of the evening. Is that the Dutch — or at least Utrechter — version of the limo? As it was, traffic was getting backed up on Lucasbolwerk. I can only imagine how bad it would have been if they’d actually had limousines!
