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adidas campus 00s future transatlantic London Heathrow operations for the German carrier. We have often said that we are not satisfied with the economic results at bmi, said Lufthansa s chief financial officer Dr Karl-Ludwig Kley. Results have to be improved. If we get an offer at a very high price we will sell. Chief executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber added: You know how valuable Heathrow slots are. If something comes up, we never say no. Kley says that bmi made a negative contribution of 鈧? million $5.2 million to Lufthansa s 2004 result, but this does not include losses from the struggling joint venture involving the two airlines and SAS covering routes from the UK to Germany, Scandinavia and some other European destinations. SAS has also made clear that it would not be adverse to offloading its 20% stake in bmi. Virgin Atlantic, meanwhile, has made no secret of its interest in buying bmi, which could provide feed for its own Heathrow operation. Virgin Atlantic chief executive Steve Ridgeway said in April that a bmi tie-up would be logical .Lufthansa s immediate focus is wit
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Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordons typically-quirky comedy plays out in a Belgian beer barSource: Locarno Film FestivalThe Falling StarDirs/scr: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon. Belgium/France. 2023. 98 minsThe well-established deadpan dr
hydrojug sale ollery of Belgian couple Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon gets a fifth feature-length outing in Locarnos whimsical, fitfully funny opener The Falling Star.An unexpected detour towards film-noir parody from a team who have worked together since the 1980s, the self-consciously daffy tale about bizarro goings on in and around the eponymous Brussels beer bar will doubtless delight devotees
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yeti In Paris 2016 鈥?all of which enjoyed a healthy measure of international exposure and acclaim.The semi-anachronistic approach exerts a certain nostalgic charmThis latest enterprise, despite its old-school charm and poise, feels too scattershot to earn Abel and Gordon who, as usual, write, direct and co-produce, as well as play leading roles many new admirers. Not for the first time, their material feels somewhat stretched. There is also a nagging sense that their script would be better suited to stage than screen, even taking into account their obvious debts to the likes of Tati, Chaplin and Keaton.To this list of august influences one can perhaps now add Finnish maestro-of-miniatures Aki Kaurismaki, who has operated inThe Falling Stars lightly-stylised, mainly morose milieu for de
