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Frankie (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Fabienne Berthaud

Written By:
Fabienne Berthaud

Actors:
Diane Kruger ..... Frankie
Jeannick Gravelines ..... Tom
Brigitte Catillon ..... Suzy, la tenancière de la maison des filles
Christian Wiggert ..... Le photographe
Jay Alexander ..... Kate, le directeur de casting (as J. Alexander)
Jean-Louis Place ..... Le psychiatre
Gérald Marie ..... Lorenzo Ferretti, le manager
Sylvia Hoeks ..... Rumina (as Sylvia Hoecks)
Alexander Schwab ..... Le booker
Claude Jeangirard ..... Le directeur de la clinique
Marina Dias ..... Petite amie photographe

Synopsis:

Fabienne Berthaud's gentle psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis, mental breakdown, and psychiatric hospitalization 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 calamities 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 ere-evolving friendship with the kindly driver of the modeling agency. Now, Frankie contents herself with institutional life and resists the thought of leaving and returning to the scabrousness of the real world.

Frankie is a 26-year-old model, "a coathanger ready for retirement." She's hospitalized in a peculiar rest home full of patients with wild imaginations. Just how did she wind up here? Through a series of flashbacks, Frankie relives the major events of an existence that has wounded and damaged her, and in which she lost all sense of reality. The world of fashion and sequins isn't always what it's made out to be.

Follows a model named Frankie who tries to piece together her life after she is hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 04 November, 2009.

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