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<font size="2"><p>DVD Review
<font size="4"><br><i>A Brief Vacation</i></font>
<br>by David Gurevich</font>
<p>Towards the very end of his career, Vittorio De Sica went back to the days of war to make the critically acclaimed (and much overrated) <i>The Garden of Finzi-Continis</i> (1970), and then in 1973 he made an all-out attempt to return to his roots, called <i>A Brief Vacation</i>.
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