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The protagonist of a film by this director lists rules for attending funerals, like “never cry,” before a scene in which he cries at a funeral. Literary influences on a film by this director include Flaubert’s goal to write a novel about “nothing” and its epigraph about imagination and travel from Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night. In a film by this director, the protagonist’s memory of his teenage crush watching him nearly get run over by a yacht is invoked when he sees waves on his bedroom roof. Unconvincing CGI animals in a film by this director include a magician’s giraffe and a flock of (*) flamingos that perch on the protagonist’s balcony while a 104-year-old nun asks him why he wrote just one novel. A raucous dance montage (10[1]-5[1])celebrating (10[1])the protagonist’s 65th birthday opens that film by this director, who drew on his childhood as a Napoli fan for a film inspired by Diego Maradona. For 10 points, name this Italian director of The Hand of God (10[1])and The Great (10[1])Beauty. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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