The Tracey Fragments (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Bruce McDonald

Escritores:

Maureen Medved (novel)
Maureen Medved (screenplay)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Something's missing...

Plot:

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.

Plot Keywords:

Curtain | Bus | Shower Curtain | Flashback | High School

Premios:

5 wins & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Exhausting but good

Reparto

Ellen Page	...	Tracey Berkowitz
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos	...	Lance
Ari Cohen	...	Mr. Berkowitz
Erin McMurtry	...	Mrs. Berkowitz
Zie Souwand	...	Sonny Berkowitz
Stephen Amell	...	Detective
Leonard Dunbar	...	Laughing Man
Chris Ratz	...	Donut Shop Cashier
Daniel Fathers	...	Elegant Pimp Daddy
Ryan Cooley	...	David Goldberg
Jeffrey Bornstein	...	The Boy With Curious Hair
Jackie Brown	...	Mrs. Dorchester the Teacher
Kate Todd	...	That Knockout Bitch Debbie Dodge
Slim Twig	...	Billy Zero
Julian Richings	...	Dr. Heker

MPAA:

Rated R for strong language throughout, some sexual content and violence.

Duración:

77 min

País:

Canada

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Portugal:M/16 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A (British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Australia:MA | Finland:K-13 | USA:R | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:NC-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Compañía:

Shadow Shows

Trivialidades:

First feature film to use Mondrian multi-frame compositions for the entire length.

Citas:

Tracey Berkowitz: They never should have grounded me. Now I have nothing.

Conexiones de Película:

References The Big Lebowski (1998)

Exhausting but good

I just saw the world premiere of this film at the Berlin Film Festival and I was quite surprised. When I got the tickets I had no idea what it was actually about. When I was told it was about a 15-year old girl dealing with puberty I wasn't very happy about it. But then what I saw surprised me. During the first 2 minutes I prepared myself for two hours of overdone artistic cinema. But after some time, I got into it and even got attached to the girl who everybody just calls "Its". However, according to the director, this film may have been shot in only 14 days but, it took them about nine months to edit it. No wonder, since the director Bruce McDonald took the "Fragment"-part of the title by word. The film consists of hundreds of fragments of pictures, each showing different perspectives of the same moment mixing up reality and thoughts and fantasies of Tracy, the 15-year old protagonist. There are only rare scenes in which there are less then 3 fragments to be seen on screen. And the more emotional the protagonist gets, the more fragments appear. So, thus confusing you with just too much information it leaves you overwhelmed with impressions and emotions that are just too plenteous to handle. Off course, McDonald did this on purpose. It's all just a try to visualize what a teen must have to go through in puberty. After a while you get sucked into a world of bullies, disturbed parents, unanswered love, doubts and fantasies, sympathizing more and more with Tracy. Even though it was exhausting to pay attention all the time, I'd say the film is worth seeing (if you have the stamina). I have seen a lot of movies but this one was actually something new. Well, it may be exhausting but when you think of it, wasn't puberty too?!