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Frankie Details

2005

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Starring	Diane Kruger, Jeannick Gravelines, Brigitte Catillon, Christian Wiggert
Director	Fabienne Berthaud
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Frankie

Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis, mental breakdown, and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30, the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in Blois, France, drugged out and in a semi catatonic state. In flashback, Berthaud dramatizes the events that led to this predicament. Once active before the cameras and highly sought after by agents, Frankie experienced a series of minor calamaties including an on set fight with a fashion photographer and the experience of accidentally hearing agents make disparaging remarks about her appearance, that collectively propelled her over the edge. Amid this world of grotesque artifice, the one bright spot seemed to be her ever evolving friendship with the kindly driver of the modeling agency. For now, Frankie contents herself with institutional life and resists the thought of leaving and returning to the scabrousness of the real world...

Starring	Diane Kruger, Jeannick Gravelines, Brigitte Catillon, Christian Wiggert, Jay Alexander, Jean-Louis Place, Gerald Marie
Director	Fabienne Berthaud
Studio	SODA PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 28 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: French, German
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2005 To Rent: DVD: 25 Feb 2008

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- Frankie is âa coat hanger about to be retiredâ. A 26-year-old model, she knows all too well that her career is... read more on Time Out
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Halle to meet Frankie And Alice
- 18 Apr 2008
Oscar winner Halle Berry has signed up to star in independent psycho-thriller Frankie And Alice, Hollywood bible Variety has reported. Produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, the film will feature Berry in the lead as a young woman tormented by multiple personality disorder. According to the paper, she is torn between her true self and her alter-ego, a "racist Caucasian that preys upon her mind". Berry - whose other films include the X-Men trilogy, Bond adventure Die Another Read more
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  Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis, mental breakdown, and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30, the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in ...