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"Anna (Linda Griffiths) is a woman whose single-minded obsession with presenting herself 'professionally' has disastrous consequences in ther private life. Passion, the film, becomes the medium through which Anna attempts to communicate with the lover from whom she has become alienated."
-- Robert L. Cagle


Source:
Cagle, Robert L. "A Minority on Someone Else's Continent: Identity, Difference, and the Media in the Films of Patricia Rozema." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 184)