Abstract
The first time I saw Julie Delpy perform was around 1992 in the movie Voyager . In the film, Delpy played a young and enchanting woman, Sabeth, who fell in love on a cruise with the middle-aged, science-minded civil engineer Mr. Faber, played by Sam Shepard. Faber later proposed to Sabeth and traveled with her to meet her mother, Hannah. He realized he could not marry Sabeth because he and she were biologically related. In the end, Sabeth died, leaving Hannah and Faber with saddened hearts. The film was shot wonderfully; Delpy’s astonishing beauty and fantastic performance captured my full attention. But I was disheartened by how a lack of communication within a relationship could result in personal tragedy. The plot of Voyager took place in the late 1950s; back then, there was no in vitro fertilization or sperm banks. Faber and Sabeth were biologically related because Hannah and Faber had once been lovers but had parted 21 years earlier, when she conceived his child. …
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