id this song (eighties hit)

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it's played in the dinner scene in Haneke's Der Siebente Kontinent (great movie btw)
I can't believe I haven't found this googling

lyrics go something like this

"I look for .. in Japan. to find the innocence "
"to find the ... afternoon"
girl (it's a duet): "I've been waiting in the dark"
chorus
"sending roses, back to America" (or send me roses??)

Ludo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

From imdb:

"Send Me Roses"
(uncredited)
Written by Günter Mokesch and Karin Raab
Performed by Günter Mokesch and Karin Raab

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

Which, I guess, is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKF48YGg3q0

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

you're too fast for me Johnny (i had just typed)

good ol IMDB (i had checked the forums.)

the Austrian origin probably explains the unrecognizable lyrics :)

(video)

et voila. that's it. thanks!

Ludo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

still digging the song without the nihilistic Haneke context (families going batshit, men breaking down in tears, i.e. the usual from the ever optimistic director)

Ludo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:54 (fourteen years ago)


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