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Five years later, he returns home, bringing with him one of the ventriloquist's dolls. But it is not a present for Liur; instead, it becomes a.
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Foyalty Man-Chiu Lin Helen Wang. Add to Basket. Leave Review. Author Info. Synopsis Sorry, no synopsis is currently available. He was also a ventriloquist, and brought Nina into his world. When he died, in , he left her his entire collection of dummies, including one modelled on himself. Then she and they headed off to America to make her first film.
What was not known at the start of her pilgrimage — she had never told her parents or her husband — was that she and Ken had been lovers, despite an age gap of more than 30 years.
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He was charismatic, funny, acerbic. I just felt lucky to be on the same planet as him. I wanted to be with him, simple as that. She was the one to end it. When you are with someone as strong as that, eventually you start to wilt. They are strange objects when silent. Eventually I knew I had to give them a voice. Throughout her adult life, Nina has used puppets to explore her emotions. And on film, her dummies do just that — to powerful effect. There is one emotional scene in her film where Monkey, her most famous puppet, asks if it is a coincidence that he came into her life when she was recovering from an abortion.
What did her family make of seeing her expose such private emotions like this? He had known what Ken meant to me. Has she followed their example with her marriage? My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I always just felt daft.
As odd as it may seem, she seems delighted to have found her own voice — even it is via a pitbull on the end of her arm. Box office: Nina Conti, daughter of Tom Conti, with one of her puppets. Share this article Share.
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