Frankie
2005
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Diane Kruger, Jeannick Gravelines, Brigitte Catillon, Christian Wiggert |
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| Director | Fabienne Berthaud |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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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 |
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| 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 | DVD: 25 Feb 2008 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Frankie is a coat hanger about to be retired. A 26-year-old model, she knows all too well that her career is... read more on Time Out
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Frankie
I didnt enjoy this film at all.
It was increadibly slow paced. I imagined that the amatuer aspect of this film would have made the subject matter and the film a bit more edgy but unfortunatly the film seemed to go nowhere.
There is practically nothing of the description in the film.
You could easily miss the point that she has drastically taken a turn for the worst with her mental health declining. Infact, her attitude throughout the whole film is pretty much constant, there are no rises or falls. Apart from a scene in which she is obviously unhappy with being photographed you could just take that as a mild moodswing.
If you read the blurb and think it sounds exciting....think again.
It just left me quite confused wondering why someone would spend money on making a film that pointless! -
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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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