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THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS MOVIE
“I do have to say that despite Thom’s comment about there not being anyone to root for in the movie to be surprising. I found the fragmented editing and overblown soundscape to really convey the feeling of being in a troubled teenager’s head. Michael says (in response to Thom): I loved THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS, but can definitely see how it wouldn’t be for everyone. It would have helped if there had been someone to root for in the movie.” Thom responds: “I gave this film 3 1/2 cats for all the same reasons you gave your rating. “THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.” I would also love to co-present this film at the Independent Film Festival of Boston next April if it hasn’t yet been released. I’m hoping that a successful roll-out of JUNO will grant THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS a U.S. The film has some minor flaws, mainly in the screenplay, but Page’s outstanding lead performance and McDonald’s creative and assured directorial hand managed to catapult THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS into my top film of the Festival. Heker, a female psychologist cast and played brilliantly by the very male Julian Richings ( MY LIFE WITHOUT ME THE RED VIOLIN). Moments of near calm are granted in Tracey’s discussions with Dr. The film works best if you stop resisting and let it wash over your senses.
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The powerful, soundtrack by Broken Social Scene matches the visuals nicely. The fragmented visuals and helter skelter editing McDonald employs really adds tremendously to what might have otherwise been an R-rated after-school special type of story. The latter because of the visual and aural assault Bruce McDonald uses to convey this tragic story. The former because we are watching the helpless downward spiral of a girl in way over her head. “Two films came to mind as I watched THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS: Lukas Moodysson’s LILJA 4-EVER and Darren Aronofsky’s The story is told in flashback, through erratic flashes of Tracey’s memory, as she rides a bus through the city, wrapped only in a flowered shower curtain, an impending blizzard looming in the near future. Central to the story is the disappearance of Tracey’s seven-year-old brother, who thinks he’s a dog. The film is told entirely from Tracey’s decidedly skewed point-of-view, it is difficult to gauge the ineffectiveness of her parents accurately. Or it’s possible that Tracey is just a very disturbed young girl rejecting any assistance that comes her way. But while Juno has a strong support base in her friends and family, Tracey is adrift alone, picked on mercilessly by her peers, and shunned by her parents who find her to be a problem child. Both are high-school girls on the fringes of that community. “In some ways, Tracey Berkowitz is similar to Juno, Page’s other leading role at the festival. This is a film that has the potential to blow your mind, incorporating a strong enough screenplay, a powerhouse lead performance, and a visionary director that pushes the boundaries of filmmaking to take the film’s title literally and give the audience visual fragments of the titular character’s psyche. After receiving well-deservedĪccolades for her fine comedic work in JUNO, she turns around a floors audiences in Bruce McDonald’s (‘Twitch City’ HIGHWAYĦ1) dramatic feature THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS. Michael says: “This was surely the year of Ellen Page at the Toronto International Film Festival. There were also a bunch of scenes that were not needed in the least and where obviously there for nothing more then padding.Starring: Ellen Page | Julian Richings | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos The fragmented scenes and the choppy story-line where clever at first but quickly made the movie confusing and weird. If I hadn't seen other works by Ellen Page I would have put this on her.
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Ellen Page is a far better actress then tis movie makes her out to be and I feel that again that falls on the director.
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The editing was just annoying, trying to be artsy and new but just ended up giving me a headache. Ellen Page is a far better actress then tis movie makes her out to be and I feel that again that This movie was clearly just the work of a director who thought he was better then he really is. This movie was clearly just the work of a director who thought he was better then he really is.