Word: funereo
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Moderate Cantabile might better have been titled Adagio Funereo; it is much too long, much too lugubriously languid. On the other hand, Director Brook's musical score-he developed it himself from a sonatina by Diabelli -is sensuous and tender. And Armand Thirard's photography is almost too dreamily lovely to believe. The film was actually shot at Blaye on the River Gironde, and in Thirard's frames, the big river, the wide land, the vast sky and the quiet clouds all seem to be shimmering mysteriously in the depths of a tremendous pearl...
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