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...flagship will boast a champagne bar, a Japanese restaurant and even a real estate bureau, where clients can find pieds-a-terre in Miami and Rome. Pampered customers are waited on by the daughters of politicians and plutocrats, known as Dasluzetes, and a cadre of attendants in maid's uniforms folds clothes and serves espresso. Only at Daslu do female clients blithely disrobe in the aisles, since there are no fitting rooms to speak of (men are barred from the women's store...
...quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. After watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers?until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities...
...maid Gerlinde joins us. She also takes some coffee. “But Sonja, it’s such a beautiful Saturday morning. What I would really like to drink is some champagne...
...quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals...
...perfectly logical, perhaps even necessary for the family and the firm's survival. It is impossible to say exactly when his stoicism becomes a perfect deadness of the soul. All we know is that one day, drunk and abandoned in a vacation villa, he savagely attempts to rape a maid. It is a measure of the film's acuity that that is not the end of Christoffer. When next we see him, he's wearing a suit and tie, entering into a loveless second marriage, allowing himself to be claustrophobically re-enfolded in his family's smothering embrace...