text: The dialogue moves ahead--there are great gobs of exposition--but the images continually double to Stamp and Lesley Ann Warren , as his daughter 's acting teacher , simply gazing at each other ; or to Stamp sitting on a plane , remembering his daughter as a girl on the beach , the lens of his home movie camera creating an eerily bright--almost supernatural--spot that dances over her face .
  
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  The dialogue contains a large amount of exposition .