Robert Forster

Yes, it does.

I mean, that was a shock to me because I don't know how many people are filming people dying even now.

Well, he is.

And when, just to skip back one frame, if you will.

When Claude, before he starts to work with the Lumineer brothers, he's working in a clinic with his doctor.

They're filming patients in this clinic before he even starts to work with the Lumineer brothers.

So it sort of begins there before it moves on to his sister and these other things he films.

She's also French, like Claude.

And she is probably someone a little bit like a Sarah Bernhardt or someone late 19th century, melodramatic, famous actress.

She's working in New York by this time in the 1890s.

With a European consort called Pavel, who's her sort of acting coach, spiritual guide.

And she gets, the way she's connected to filmmaking is that she's in this big theatre and the theatre's almost split.

Half of it, she's doing a production of Shakespeare.

production of Hamlet.

And in the same complex, the films are being shown.

And the films, actually, people start stamping and laughing at the films, which interrupts her performance.

And then she wants to see what all the fuss is about.

And that is how she meets Claude.

She's furious.

She is, and rightfully so.