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Now he’s back with Salt of Life, EPISODE 3. tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as in which the same character is again beset and befuddled by The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. German Expressionism, Soviet montage, a social problem. And while the film focuses on the demands and charms of the fairer sex. His stunning down- five families, it is also about the emergence of stairs neighbor and his mother’s voluptuous caretaker are but French impressionism and surrealism were passionate CINEMAGIC MEMBERSHIP JUNE-JULY 2012 new film movements, pushing the boundaries of the a movement. It documents a shift in conscious- two of the temptations Gianni encounters, and at the urging medium. 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