Cooling Down

Frankfurt is preparing itself for the Iron Man spectacle. A lot of the would-bes are strutting around with opalescent sun glasses and colourful sports wear, showing off their sinewy bodies and state-of-the-art two-wheel machinery. The gods have graced us with a magnificent thunderstorm, temperature reduced to a pleasant 22 degrees. Yesternight the levels were higher when I returned from the Palmengarten tennis club where the Frankfurt Movie Museum had shown Woody Allen’s Highsmithian thriller Match Point to a crowd of 650, on an inflatable screen at the flank of the club’s aptly sized centre court. The movie left me trembling with nervous identification – not quite in the mood for the pleasantries of the subsequent party.

2 Comments

  1. “Match Point” erinnerte mich eigentlich eher an Hitchcock, denn an Highsmith. Obwohl natürlich auch Highsmith Elemente vorhanden waren.

  2. Richtig, die Suspense-Elemente sind sehr von Hitchcock inspiriert. Aber die Täter-Psychologie und die Identifikation mit dem Mörder ist eher Highsmith. Alles in allem ein, abgesehen von der Nostalgie, ziemlich untypischer Woody Allen.

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