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Svetlana’s character, a former actress, spends the night of her 50th birthday not simply reminiscing about her past but actually reliving her memories and facing the images of the most important people in her life: her father, her husband, and her best friend. She also talks about the meaning of acting and being an actress, the risks and “side effects” that art brings. In doing so, she frequently enters the role of the celebrated Russian actress Alla Nazimova to compare Nazimova’s life and career, a seemingly perfect model of artistic greatness, with her own far-from-perfect life of an actress who has moved to the United States to become a wife, a mother, and an immigrant.
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