Dear Frankie
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German title | Dear Frankie |
Original title | Dear Frankie |
Country of production | UK |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2004 |
length | about 100 minutes |
Age rating | FSK o. A. |
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Director | Shona Auerbach |
script | Andrea Gibb |
production | Caroline Wood |
music | Alex Heffes |
camera | Shona Auerbach |
cut | Oral Norrie Ottey |
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Dear Frankie (Original title: Dear Frankie ) is a British drama film about a family and a boy's relationship with his absent father.
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Since the deaf Frankie was a little boy, he has been moving from place to place with his mother, Lizzy. You have just moved to a small Scottish port town.
Frankie only receives letters from his father from HMS Accra, on which he was hired as a sailor. He hasn't seen him in years. But Frankie's mother has a secret: it is not his father who writes the letters, but the mother who is constantly on the run from her violent husband.
But something is happening at her current place of residence that Frankie's mother did not expect. The HMS Accra is scheduled to call into port in a few days and Frankie is very excited to see his father again. Lizzy has to make a decision and so she hires a stranger to play Frankie's father for a day.
Reviews
“ Dear Frankie, tells a touching story that fortunately doesn't turn into kitschy. [...] Shona Auerbach manages a cautious film of an intimate relationship between mother and child, which skirts the cliffs of exaggerated melodrama and pure sentimentality. […] It is beneficial that the directorial debutante relies less on dialogues and more on symbols, gestures and moods. It is also a stroke of luck that the film is supported by convincing actors. The viewer is not completely unraveled by Frankie's deaf-mute language, nor is he confronted with the terrible details of the family drama. "
Web links
- Dear Frankie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Dear Frankie atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Scientific criticism of Dear Frankie on KinderundJugendmedien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ DEAR FRANKIE . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .