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"I took a little trip, and I don't feel much like talking about it"
| Filmbrain needs your help. A friend in Japan recently sent me a rather schizophrenic mixtape of music he's been listening to of late. It's a wonderful compilation, yet it's all over the map -- techno, free jazz, J-Pop, Krautrock, obscure Italian soundtrack music, Björling, Bacharach, etc. The mix begins with an infectious minimal techno track by Nathan Fake entitled You Are Here, which opens with a bit of dialog from a film that I honestly should know off the top of my head, yet for the life of me can't identify. A man with a thick German accent, a young woman, an idling motorcycle, and a plane flying overhead. So familiar... Though I'm not quite losing sleep over it, it is driving me batty. Have a listen, and leave a comment below if you recognize it. Thanks! |
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My first thought would be 'Girl on a motorcycle' although the girl doesn't really sound like Marianne Faithfull.
Posted by: George Vermij | Mar 16, 2008 9:24:50 AM
It sounds like Udo Kier, but I don't know what movie it could be. The girl has a distinct 1950-60s lilt. In other words, no idea.
Posted by: LindaT | Mar 16, 2008 9:31:31 AM
I thought it was "Girl on a Motorcycle" too, - but I can't recall a scene like that...
Posted by: RGHunt57 | Mar 16, 2008 10:19:57 AM
Is it Suspiria?
Posted by: Manjit A | Mar 16, 2008 11:13:40 AM
this may sound pretty off, but i thought it was 'out of africa', with that funny accent of meryl streep vs brandauer. but maybe i'm in just to spark off a few laughs
Posted by: ChokoBoko | Mar 16, 2008 1:39:23 PM
Sounds a bit too young for Streep, methinks.
Posted by: GrimFey | Mar 16, 2008 6:58:02 PM
'fahrenheit 451'? but then, the guy does not really sound like oskar werner...
Posted by: su-su | Mar 16, 2008 8:39:20 PM
I don't recall the exact dialogue, but this sounds like it might be the amazing cult actress Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg in Barbet Schroeder's anti-flower power death ballad, More.
Posted by: anonymous | Mar 18, 2008 1:50:52 PM
Anonymous --
That could be it....I'm going to check.
Posted by: Filmbrain | Mar 18, 2008 10:26:08 PM
Give the cigar to Anonymous, my friend—it is indeed from "More." Damn it. What threw me off was the sound of the idling motorcycle—it made me think I was looking for a scene in which one of the characters was, you know, on a motorcycle. As it happens, Ms. Farmer (whose Sebergesque vocal affectlessness should have been a giveaway) and Herr Grunberg are conversing on a balcony, and the cycle is merely street noise. Again, damn it.
Posted by: Glenn Kenny | Mar 19, 2008 12:24:21 AM
Glenn (and anonymous) -- thanks so much for putting my mind at ease. I probably haven't seen More since the late 80s -- amazing that it still struck a familiar chord.
Now I can sleep peacefully...
Posted by: Filmbrain | Mar 19, 2008 1:22:50 AM
Good job. I wouldn't have found it. It kinda drove me crazy too for a while. I was sure I hadn't seen it. I was wondering about this passive-aggressive scene of indifference-jealousy within a couple. Are they in love? Are they separated? A weird scene that couldn't be a classic. And the context of the film makes sense of this sexual liberation undertone.
A cheap movie in my mind, though kind of transgressive.
Posted by: HarryTuttle | Mar 19, 2008 6:29:24 AM
I loved this film when I saw it at the Art Theater on 8th Street, twice in a row, one night in 1969. My favorite Mimsy.
Posted by: Peter Nellhaus | Mar 20, 2008 12:52:41 AM
Thank you so much, I absolutely love this song, and I have been wondering for about half a year where that dialogue came from.
Posted by: Jobse | Apr 5, 2008 5:03:03 PM
