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Sharp focus on Robert Leapage: Louise Gray celebrates the strange craft of a maestro of film, theatre -- and duality.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

From: New Internationalist  |  Date: 5/1/2002  |  Author: Gray, Louise

In Possible Worlds (2001), the first English-language film from Quebecois director Robert Lepage, there is a moment when a scientist tells the protagonist, George, that he intends to kill him in all possible worlds'. It is a scene to ponder. If George can be killed in all possible worlds then so too can he love and be loved. And, sure enough, in a series of encounters in a myriad of alternative existences, we see George (Tom McCamus) loving his wife Joyce (Tilda Swinton).

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