Frailer ( Brozer )

Frailer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Brozer
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Mijke de Jong

Written By:
Mijke de Jong

Actors:
Marnie Blok ..... Ted
Lieneke le Roux ..... Lian
Leonoor Pauw ..... Muis
Adelheid Roosen ..... Carlos

Synopsis:

Frailer tells the story of an actress playing a part that reflects her real life story. Whilst playing a woman dying of cancer, Muis her doctor tells her she has not much more time left. She will die soon. The film follows the transition of her and her film sisters, shifting from their characters to who they really are, actresses dealing with their friend upcoming death. We watch Leonoor become physically frailer but mentally stronger as she is slowly accepting her faith. Whilst ending the film, she leaves her film sisters, her real life husband and children but also the viewer, behind forever.

What does it mean to die well? How does one go about being a good friend to someone who is dying? These questions - so difficult to answer - are courageously grappled with in Dutch director Mijke de Jong's challenging and unspeakably affecting hybrid film Frailer. Prompted by the news of her friend Leonoor Pauw's fatal illness, de Jong uses a hint of artifice and a lot of honesty to explore the dizzying range of ideas and emotions that emerge as Pauw and her three best friends keep one another company during Pauw's final years. Upon confirmation that her lung cancer is terminal, Mouse (Pauw) gathers her dear friends Ted (Marnie Blok), Carlos (Adelheid Roosen), and Lian (Lieneke le Roux) around her. Together the women come up with strategies to make the best of the time Mouse has left. They garden and dance, and share food, drinks and prescription marijuana. Taking short trips to spectacular locales, they experience sudden emotional flare-ups along the way, revealing frustrations over the hidden hierarchies of their friendships. Their conversations cover just about every topic imaginable: family, art-making, the ebb and flow of sexual desire, their love and respect for each other, and the hereafter - or lack thereof. More radically, they attempt an exercise in which they all lie down in matching caskets, wearing matching red dresses with butterfly patterns.

A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 April, 2015.