Movies: Dominique Sanda

The Inheritance

After a lifetime of hard work, the aging widower Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) decides to sell his bakery business, but cuts his three adult children (the weak-willed Pippo, the womanising gambler Mario and the spouse of a government employee Teta) out of his will completely, leaving them with no promise of a future inheritance.

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Based on Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical 1962 novel of the same name, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis tells the story of an affluent Jewish family living in Ferrara at the time of the rise of fascism.

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A Room in Town

Jacques Demy's '80s magnum opus continues in the genre of sung-through musical familiar from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

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A Gentle Woman

Bresson's earliest “official” Dostoevsky adaptation – of the short story A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya, 1876) – transposes the setting of the St Petersburg story to Paris in the late 1960s.

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