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Cinema Paradiso (1989) - Verso La Vita

We discover what Fr. Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) was rushing off to do, censor the new movie in the Sicilian wartime town, altar-boy Salvatore (Cascio) peeping and Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) projecting (Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths, with Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim and Louis Joudet), early in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, 1989.

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Altar boy Salvatore (Cascio), who will grow up to be a famous director, doing serious business with Fr. Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) in WWII Sicily, rescued by his friend, the projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), angering his mother (Antonella Attili), in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, 1989.
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Director Giuseppe Tornatore's nearly still-life opening, eventually adding Pupella Maggio, as the now-elderly mother of movie director Salvatore (Jacques Perrin) at the wheel in Rome, opening the Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso, 1989, starring Philippe Noiret.

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