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Speaking Parts

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

Good but very weird, early (1988) Atom Etgoyan film about a young woman who works in a hotel as a maid obsessed with a coworker, a young male actor who has yet to get a speaking part and, instead, has only done work as a silent extra. The film is odd, dispassionate in some ways around the filming of a large sex party, and deals with the meaning—or is it power—of film in the lives of film people. A film that sets up many of the things AE deals with in most of his later films. Nicely acted, it stars his wife, who is, as ever, fine. . In some ways, also something of a ‘horror’ film in that there are seemingly psychic connections that only become evident in the end. See discussion of another AE film, “Calendar,” at the end of this list

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