Anna Magnani in (what looks like) Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima. At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo Cinema Paradiso has become a pile of rubble.…
Jacques Perrin
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The Chorus with Kad Merad, François Berléand, Gérard Jugnot. A gigantic hit in France, Christophe Barratier’s feature-film début, Les choristes / The Chorus, is the newest cinematic incarnation of that age-old theme: the teacher who, through firmness, kindness, and understanding…