Jody : That Berlitz commercial is one my favorites too. Here are a couple of other foreign gems:
The Soccer Partner
Stick around until the end to understand this charming commercial.
Mr. W
This ad for Epuron GmbH, created by the Nordpol+Hamburg agency, won the Golden Lion for best advertising spot at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes. It’s weird at first, but it makes sense in the end.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…