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"These elegant, movie-only editions of the true classics of art house feature lower cost and sturdy packaging and are a practical alternative to the more elaborate Criterion Collection special editions. Available individually or in sets of six, Essential Art House editions of the touchstones of world cinema feature beautiful digital transfers, accompanied by informative liner notes. For the devoted cinephile, these are the must-own fundamentals; for the novice film lover, this is precisely where to begin. Films include: A Brief Encounter, 8½, Floating Weeds, Jules and Jim, Kapo, and Loves of a Blonde."
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Two married people, both unsatisfied with their relationships, meet on a train platform in London and fall in love; a film director finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career; a traveling actor meets his grown illegitimate son for the first time and must decide if he should maintain the secret of his paternity, or reveal himself as the young man's father; between world wars, two men, one French and one Austrian, both love the same woman; after a young Jewish girl is sent to a concentrationcamp, she changes her identity with the help of the camp doctor and becomes a ruthless warden; in a small factory town where women outnumber men, one teenage girl has a brief affair with a musician, and when she leaves her town to follow him she faces the disappointments of life and love.
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