Six singers _ Dawn Upshaw, Mandy Patinkin, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Judy Blazer and Richard Muenz _ portray a band of urban cliff dwellers who, when they're not chattily comparing notes on their frenetic lives, withdraw into a lonely isolation.
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Ghaemmaghami s involvement in the film has also been attributed to Sonita s growth as a woman . " The Hollywood Reporter " says : Ghaem Maghami's camera is never any kind of fly on the wall, and the voluble Sonita's chattily informal relationship with the older director & is clearly a crucial element in her personal development into the super-confident, irrepressible young woman she becomes .
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Nabokov's use of butterfly imagery as a symbol of nature's cyclical order ( imagery that would surface later in " Pale Fire " and " Ada " ) is prefigured here in the 1924 tale " Christmas, " just as the author's reliance on a self-assured, even God-like narrator _ who chattily edits and comments on the characters'lives _ puts in an early appearance in stories like " Bachmann " ( 1924 ) and " Revenge " ( 1924 ).
