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Madame Mephisto: A Novel

A.M. Bakalar

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What would you talk about if you were stuck in a room with a drug dealer for five days? Magda, a...

A Week in December

Sebastian Faulks

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the...

The Art of Life

Paul Durcan

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In "The Art of Life" Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green...

Pawel Pawlikowski recommended Ashes and Diamonds (1958) in Movies (curated)

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

1958 | Drama, Romance, War

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"Another one I saw as a kid and have seen many times since. It’s etched itself into my mind, both the visuals and the story. First of all, this melancholy provincial town, this shabby hotel where the Victory Day is being celebrated. I adore these atmospheres in Poland. And this typically Polish situation, where the urge to live clashes with the sense of duty, where hope is mixed with cynical despair. The way that history gets in the way of love—that obviously stayed with me. Then there are the deep-focus compositions and the dramatic lighting. And it has so many memorable scenes, like the vodka glasses that are lit and sent sliding down the bar counter in a kind of All Souls ceremony. And the assassinated politician embracing his petrified killer. And Cybulski. I love films carried by a bravura performer, especially when it’s not posturing and the character is complicated and real."

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