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Monica Bellucci, “Malèna” (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000).
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Kevin Spacey, “The Usual Suspects” (Bryan Singer, 1995).
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In Northern Italy, silently resting in the area between Bergamo and Milan, is an old industrial village with a peculiar graveyard. The village was founded by Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, a textile manufacturer, and is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a “model village” built for factory workers during the 19th and 20th centuries. Crespi provided the headstones for free to the people who lived within his village. The big ziggurat is actually where the tombs of the Crespi family lay. High walls flank both sides of the building, curving around the graveyard as if offering a paternalistic embrace; a hug from the Italian industrialist to all of his employees beyond death. On the heavy bronze doors of the mausoleum, a quote from Victimae paschali laudes reads: “Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: mors mortua est” (which loosely translates to “Death and life contended in a spectacular battle: death was defeated”). 📸: Photo by Luca Casartelli
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