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Speaking Parts |
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The complex plot of Speaking Parts captures the twisty psychology of its yearning characters. Lance (Michael McManus), an actor who has only had nonspeaking roles in movies, sees his chance when a movie team uses the hotel where he works as a production office. Lance seduces Clara (Gabrielle Rose), the screenwriter, who gets Lance cast in the central role of her deceased brother, who died giving a lung to her. Meanwhile, a maid (Arsinee Khanjian) in the hotel rents the movies Lance has acted in so she can watch his fleeting appearances, and Clara goes to a mausoleum where she watches a video of her brother. As in many of Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan's movies, the characters use technology to channel emotions they can't express directly. Speaking Parts is seductive and hypnotic, full of images both eerie and sad. --Bret Fetzer
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