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Essential Films
The Essential Films series of reviews by Ion Martea is intended to help readers understand how film has gone from being a mere curiosity to the most popular art form worldwide in little more than a century, by analysing individual films from the dawn of the medium to the present day.

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![The Magic Rosette [La Rosace magique] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_bea8d8ab2b5a4d3c9df1106b44dbded9~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_51,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/99804e_bea8d8ab2b5a4d3c9df1106b44dbded9~mv2.png)

![Passage of Venus [Passage de Vénus] (1874)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_bf7f46073646416b811a46c320912452~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_27,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/99804e_bf7f46073646416b811a46c320912452~mv2.png)