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A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.

A mother loses her son and goes to Barcelona to find his father; Almodovar's women.

Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.

A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.

Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.

Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.

Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.

Tornatore's tender love letter to cinema and a Sicilian boyhood — keep tissues nearby for the final reel