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in rural Italy, it is an earthy exploration of human desire. The plot is the tale of a wandering
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the Neo-Realism movement.

;LYP LXZ]P P QLY_L^TL (1953, Comedy) A wonderfully innocent, sexy comedy set in central
Italy in a backward and rural village. The plot is simple: a young woman is courted by a lot of
admirers, including a local police chief, but the movie embodies the resilient Italian spirit, and
plays to the clichés — spaghetti, sun, the cult of love, and feisty women — as it suggests the
honest basis for those truisms.

7TQP 4^ -PL`_TQ`W (1997, Comedy) The Jewish country boy Guido, a romantic in Mussolini’s Italy
raises a son in the shadow of fascism. He is determined to shelter his son from the evils
around them, maintaining a ruse with comic ingenuity, even as the horrors escalate.

>`XXP]_TXP (1955, Romance) A lovely Venetian travelogue-cum-love story with a plot
that has Hepburn’s spinster character falling out of character and in love with a married
man. A deceptively simple romance, Hepburn brings her skills to the fore in a poignant
characterization.

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Jhabvala, this adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel is a comedy of the heart, a passionate
romance and a study of the repressions of Britain’s manners and mores. The fascination here
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an impossible decision: leave him, or marry — him and a life of poverty. Events take a twist
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dangerous, solution.
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handlers and goes on a spree, aided by Peck as a tough reporter. The locations are irresistible,
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truants at a ramshackle school in the south. Along the way, the earnest “professor” becomes
the student as he starts to see things through the fresh, vibrant eyes of his scrappy young
students.

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among a group of British and American women, who must deal with the rise of fascism, the
dangers of resistance, and weather dictatorial custody and betrayal.

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