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| KUrt Weill in 1932 |
Barrie Pattison has already written
about Christian Petzold' s superb Phoenix and I dont want to
just share the enthusiasm. But, throughout the movie the soundtrack crackles
with little excerpts and variations of the Kurt Weill song Speak Low. Weill
wrote this for a show he did with Ogden Nash, "One Touch of Venus"
which premiered on Broadway on 7th October 1943. I guess, like a number of
other things that happen in the movie, you just have to accept that Nelly knew
the song and her husband could accompany her on piano. Anyway, for whatever
reason, if indeed there is one beyond the ever-astonishing musical beauty of
it, here it is in the haltingly sung version by Nina Hoss from the movie itself. For full
strength versions you can try Lotte Lenya, or the great
modern interpreter of Weill's songs Ute Lemper, or the
version voiced by Ava Gardner and Dick Haymes in the movie version of the show.
One Touch of Venus
(William A Seiter, USA, 1948)
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