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...they were having the devil's own time letting each other know about it. First the German playboy descended on Munich, where Bardot was on hand for the premiere of her new western, Shalako, She had already come and gone, They narrowly missed each other again in Hamburg, where Brigitte was celebrating her 34th birthday. Though B.B. pointedly told friends that she had lingered in one of Sachs' favorite nightclubs until 3 a.m. one night hoping to bump into him, Günter remained as confused as ever. "I don't even know whether...
Apparently they loved playing music together, and they communicated the love. As George Harrison says, "In Hamburg we had played for...eight hours at a stretch, loving it all...Back in Liverpool...it was still as enjoyable...We never rehearsed an act...It was so spontaneous, all jokes and laughs...Then came touring which was great at first...
...parents who are co-plaintiffs followed the testimony intently from reserved seats, while malformed children played in the corridors. On the witness stand was the man who, by extensive research, first developed the evidence that forced thalidomide's withdrawal from sale. Dr. Widukind Lenz was a pediatrician in Hamburg when he began to study the effects of the drug. Now 49, he has moved to Münster as director of the Institute of Human Genetics...
Chabrol's films rarely offer this much insight into events of the unfilmed past--another requirement, in this case, of melodramatic genres. The grotesque levels of thievery and sexual blackmail implied make understandable an exhibited malaise (Chris generalizing supremely about all of Hamburg: "This place is dead. On Saturdays it's worse than France."), leading to a cynically Darwinian attitude toward self-preservation (Christopher: "I do have her interests at heart--as long as they're the same as mine."), leading to strange personal mannerisms (Chris's habit of repeating words and grimacing...
...that they are more important; when we realize later that Jacqueline's seeing the deed provided the motivation for the final killing, we also remember that Chabrol did show her reactions in close-up--that our watching screen-right instead was not a product of directorial manipulation. In the Hamburg bar, a pan down to black nylons on the neck of a champagne bottle first resembles an adequate scene transition--the camera moving to a place from which to cut away--later takes on the meaning of honest foreshadowing...