Round 7: Tossup 9
As described in The New Yorker article “Home,” watching this film a dozen times led Teju Cole to allude to its climax in Open City. In this film, a shot at a bowling alley pans to focus on a broken liquor glass, implying a man is enraged by his lover’s infidelity. The last track of this film’s score is a musical reading of the poem “Love at First Sight.” A fast-paced montage in which the camera dollies along phone lines opens this film, which was its director’s last to mention Van Den Budenmayer, a fictional Dutch (*) composer. While driving, this film’s two male protagonists each gaze at the heroine’s profile on a poster advertising gum. In this film’s final scene, an old judge who spies via phone on his neighbors in Geneva learns that a storm has wrecked a ferry on the English Channel. For 10 points, Irène Jacob (“ee-REN zhah-CUB”) plays a model in what final film of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Superpower % | Power % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Absolute Cinema - Canada | 2025-11-08 | ✓ | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 91.00 |
| 2025 Absolute Cinema - Chicago Open | 2025-11-08 | ✓ | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 156.25 |
| 2025 Absolute Cinema - Minnesota | 2025-11-08 | ✓ | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 142.00 |
| 2025 Absolute Cinema - Online (1) | 2025-11-08 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 0% | 109.00 |
| 2025 Absolute Cinema - Online (2) | 2025-11-16 | ✓ | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 117.00 |