Past associations are triggered in a reverie of trepidation and longing, as a woman, alone in a room, listens to another woman's voice on a tape recording. Reflecting back on itself, the film reinvokes its former fragments in a panic of sexual identity. (AFW program notes)
Past associations are triggered in a reverie of trepidation and longing, as a woman, alone in a room, listens to another woman's voice on a tape recording. Reflecting back on itself, the film reinvokes its former fragments in a panic of sexual identity. (AFW program notes)
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