[If the bare bones of the plot make To Live sound dry or intensely political, in fact it's utterly engrossing.] That's because it's so beautifully made, ... Unlike Zhang's later films, it's not at all flashy. He has a very economical way of telling his story. There's very little wasted space in that film, nothing indulgent. It's gripping from start to finish, and all done with such grace, as we watch two ordinary people just trying to get by. |
I learnt a lot about Chinese people from this film, ... I don't think we know them very well in this country. Often, they're very closed off in their restaurants: they don't speak to us, and we don't speak to them. With this film, for the first time I had a proper feeling for Chinese people, how nice they are, their wryness, their sense of irony - a lot like us really. |
Japan is a very influential player. |
Nokia has based its product strategy on a few product platforms that have been adapted to all digital standards, ... an intelligently conceived market segmentation plan that looked to consumer desire for inspiration, not simply engineering ability. |
Overall the inventory position is tight. This cycle is all about surprise. We had the demand shock from China, and now we're also getting another one from the investment community. |
The European market took off in 1999, |
The evidence is the underlying trend is very strong. All metals are becoming precious. |
The market is genuinely tightening. |
The market is genuinely tightening. That's being reflected in the renewed spread on the cash to three months. |
The real supportive factor at the moment is, despite these two developments, that the company...is going through a period of lower grade ore...producing significantly less copper this year than last year. |
Then, in a later scene |
They're national treasures now. I keep calling Dawn French 'Dame Dawn'. I'm sure she'll become Queen one day! |
This is all about diversifying portfolio risks and creating new liquidity in assets that have a low or negative correlation to conventional assets. While inevitably investment is traceable to physical supply and demand for the (metals), it is also about the supply and demand of financial products. It is an additional demand that analysts have to take into account in the pricing levels. |
This is getting reflected in inventory and it does suggest that this can be sustained despite the very high prices. |
We are confident that these two new studies will further confirm the safety and efficacy that we have seen to date. |