One feels caressed by the hands of a master filmmaker who has nothing in particular he wants to say.

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"Only someone who has encountered mercy, who has been caressed by the tenderness of mercy, is happy and comfortable with the Lord, " he said in 2001.

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You may find yourself asked to pass along a love letter, caressed by a pretty young thing, temporarily share a table with an actor or watch a shot of vodka slammed down on your table by a drunken soldier.

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