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...He closes with a Tom Stoppard-esque sequence in which Montaigne, Cervantes and El Greco talk art, faith and tolerance in Montaigne’s manor near Bordeaux....
...Cervantes is not insensitive to such concerns....
...It was Cervantes in part two of Don Quixote, more than 400 years ago....
...Cervantes, Winterbottom says, “had an incredibly interesting life, it’s all about this thing of, ‘You’ve got to live if you want to be an artist.’...
...No one in it was called Jesus, and if Christian mythology provided a loose framework for its riffs on Plato and Cervantes, it was Christian mythology filtered through Dostoyevsky and Kafka....
...The importing of precious metals accounted for almost half of the surge in prices in Spain in the 16th century, and Potosí, the name of the vast silver mine in Bolivia, was a synonym for wealth in Cervantes...
...In that epoch, imagine director Jake Schreier and screenwriter Christopher Ford, a child can avoid having to nurse an aged P by hiring a social-services R2-D2....
...While cheaper than equivalent US operations, “a billion here, a billion there…pretty soon you’re talking about real money,” says Christopher Burnham, the outgoing UN management chief....
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