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 (15[1])film, which was its (15[1])director’s last to mention Van Den Budenmayer, a fictional Dutch (15[1])(*) 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■ (10[2]0[2])

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