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This volume of Essential Art House brings together six indispensable masterworks: Camus's Black Orpheus, Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Kurosawa's Ikiru, Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Asquith's Pygmalion and Fellini's La Strada.
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Set during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold; a young boy, neglected by his parents and teachers, runs away from home; an aging city official finds meaning in his life as he is dying from cancer; a British soldier tries to maintain his honor through three wars and a changing world; a phonetics professor bets his friend that he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady within three months; a poor woman is sold to the strong man in a circus, becominga victim of unrequited love.
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