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Atom Egoyan

"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image."

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"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image."

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