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In a 1991 film, a man with this profession discusses the avalanche that kills the protagonist of Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken as if it’s a real event. In that film, an old man is asked why he retired from this so-called “bloody” profession by a woman who says her time in Quebec acquainted her with an adjective meaning “nutty” or “pain in the arse.” In another film, a woman with this profession notes that “it takes two to be funny” after speaking Italian to a woman who tells her it’s “been ages since” she laughed. Jacques Rivette’s four-hour-long film La Belle (*) Noiseuse (“n’wah-ZUZ”) is based on a story about this profession from Balzac’s Human Comedy. In another film, visions of a woman in a wedding dress haunt a character with this profession, (10[1])who struggles to recollect the Presto from Vivaldi’s “Summer” to play on a harpsichord for a woman likened to Eurydice. For 10 points, Marianne hides her work in what profession from Héloïse (“ay-loh-EEZ”) in Céline Sciamma’s (“syah-mah’s”) Portrait of a Lady on Fire? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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