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29 JEAN-MARC LUISADA Let’s have a change of atmosphere and setting with Scott Joplin’s Solace . Here again, the music and consequently George Roy Hill’s film The Sting are linked to the memory of my parents. To be more precise, it was the last film we all saw together, in 1974. Solace comes at the most nostalgic and touching part of the story. The Robert Redford character has spent a night with a waitress in a seedy hotel. When he wakes up and sees her again, she gets killed. It’s an intimate yet extremely violent scene, even though the film is above all entertainment with a splendid soundtrack. It hasn’t aged at all, thanks to the beauty of the costumes and the magnified contrasts between two Americas, one rich, the other starving.