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“I was my father’s son. My father was Nai Nai’s least favorite.” A Taiwanese American man, driven from home by a secret, reevaluates his childhood memories of his grandmother.

The opening shot of "Margarets Museum looks like a painting by Andrew Wyeth, of a little clapboard cottage in a sea of grass on a cliffside. Two visitors drive up to the "museum, and a moment later one runs from the house screaming. Then a title card takes us back "three years earlier. As openings go, this one plays as if it belongs on another film. That it doesnt gradually becomes clear. We are in the mining town of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the late 1940s, where the coal pits take a terrib...