After seeing Fixing Frank as a FISA screener I contacted the director to ask it was slated for DVD distribution and a film this good belonged in my library. It asks with attempting to definitively answer powerful and thorny questions about identity and desire; it smacks of integrity to present these questions and leave it to the viewer.
I would loved to have seen the play, but I believe I got an excellent feel for it with how it was presented as a triad, with the two therapists fighting over Frank's very identity. The depiction of one of the men in Frank's mind while he spoke with the other dramatized the psychological tug of war with artful cinematography choices. It had moments of humor, pathos and drama that engaged from beginning to end.
Fixing Frank brought an important and relevant play to people who might never get a chance to see it. It got me asking questions I thought for certain were already answered, and it never left me with a moment of boredom or irritation with the filmmaker.
I would loved to have seen the play, but I believe I got an excellent feel for it with how it was presented as a triad, with the two therapists fighting over Frank's very identity. The depiction of one of the men in Frank's mind while he spoke with the other dramatized the psychological tug of war with artful cinematography choices. It had moments of humor, pathos and drama that engaged from beginning to end.
Fixing Frank brought an important and relevant play to people who might never get a chance to see it. It got me asking questions I thought for certain were already answered, and it never left me with a moment of boredom or irritation with the filmmaker.