‘The cinema is probably the only place in the world where a man can cry, even sob without the slightest shame’, says Jean-Marc Luisada. Every movie accompanies a human destiny. A destiny that can be experienced in a myriad of costumes, languages, locales, and pieces of music: Mahler and Visconti’s Death in Venice, Brahms and Louis Malle’s The Lovers or André Delvaux’s Rendez-vous à Bray, Gershwin and Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Wagner and Visconti’s Ludwig, Rota and Fellini’s Casanova and La Dolce Vita, Chopin and Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, Joplin and George Roy Hill’s The Sting, Mozart and John Huston’s The Unforgiven . . .