Now, with the company in ownership limbo — awaiting consummation of a Chinese-backed deal in which Koenigsegg, a tiny Swedish supercar maker, is to buy Saab from General Motors — its future is murky, to say the least.
But any chance of adulterous consummation is prevented by a setting in which there is no privacy (Hannah is watched even when she is on the toilet) and the putative lovers are doomed to separation in a contemptuous world where the business of evil is made necessary and mundane.
But how to resist this joyous romantic comedy, in which four couples whirl between desire, conflict and consummation on the shortest night of the year?
According to the Schreker expert Christopher Hailey, Der Schatzgräberr" is "the only work in which Schreker's protagonists are allowed an on-stage consummation of their love".
Several years ago, she wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal on the importance of endings, in which she called a play's concluding image "the final meaning, the consummation, the last held breath before the unscripted world courses back in".
And there's a section on unboxing videos — the weird, and weirdly popular, phenomenon in which people record themselves carefully and lovingly removing products from their packaging — in which he provides ample descriptions of individual videos, but never enters into the cultic strangeness of the ritual, with its sterile erotics of consummation between product and purchaser.
(See, for example, "A Disgraceful Affair," by Bianca Lamblin, in which she recalls being infatuated with Beauvoir, but romanced systematically by Sartre, who cheerfully remarks, on the way to a consummation, that "the hotel chambermaid will be really surprised, because she caught me taking another girl's virginity only yesterday").
If the Berliners represent the consummation of orchestral art as currently practiced, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela gives a glimpse of a possible future: one in which classical music becomes a more diverse and popular art without any loss of distinction.
And there's a section on unboxing videos the weird, and weirdly popular, phenomenon in which people record themselves carefully and lovingly removing products from their packaging in which he provides ample descriptions of individual videos, but never enters into the cultic strangeness of the ritual, with its sterile erotics of consummation between product and purchaser.
But there's no joy in this consummation, which is the film's first oddity.
