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Zvulun, who turns to fascist Italy in the years before World War II, counts as his inspirations the films by Federico Fellini and Luis ����ñ�ܱ��.

Fluent in posturing and hypocrisy, Ulman looks like an influencer and thinks like Luis ����ñ�ܱ��.

As mordant in its way as the slyly subversive movies Luis ����ñ�ܱ�� made in Mexico, Brocka’s two-fisted melodrama is a hellish, compelling work by a director whom the French critic Serge Daney, then editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, called “the great filmmaker of the ’70s.”

The hive of activity is the Palais, a massive complex by the sea full of cinemas with names like ����ñ�ܱ��, Bazin and, the granddaddy, the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

“The Exterminating Angel,” with a libretto by Adès and Tom Cairns adapted from Luis ����ñ�ܱ��’s surrealist film, is one of the finest operas of the century so far, alongside works by George Benjamin and Kaija Saariaho.