premise: The dialogue moves ahead--there are great gobs of exposition--but the images continually double  to Stamp and Lesley Ann Warren, as his daughter's acting teacher, simply gazing at each other; or to Stamp sitting on a plane, remembering his daughter as a girl on the beach, the lens of his home movie camera creating an eerily bright--almost supernatural--spot that dances over her face.
hypothesis: The dialogue contains almost zero exposition.