Frances
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Movie Reviews of Frances
Movie Review: Extraordinaria película
Summary: 5 Stars
Frances es una de las mejores películas que he visto; dramática, emocionante, con actuaciones espectaculares.Jessica lange hace su papel de manera extraordinaria.
La película ronda sobre la creatividad de una joven cercenada por su madre, por la sociedad y luego por la ciencia. El amor y odio entre la madre y la hija; un padre timorato, etc.
Movie Review: Jessica Langes best performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Frances Farmer was ahead of her time. They didnt know what to do with her and she didnt help herself at times. Jessica Lange gives her best performance in Frances. Sam Sheperd and Kim Stanley do great. Frances is a great film, it has all the qualites.Movie Review: Frances Movie 5 Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this movie when it first came out and really enjoyed it again. If you are a fan of Jessica Lange you need to see this movie. It is a true account of the life of Frances Farmer from West Seattle.Movie Review: Where Are The Closed Captions?
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen Frances more than once, but have never found a Closed Captioned version!
Deaf people like movies too, expecially when they can UNDERSTAND what is being said!
Lantana
Movie Review: fine monument to a dark chapter in Hollywood history
Summary: 4 Stars
Jessica Lange stars as Frances Farmer in this well-crafted film based on Farmer's novel "Will There Really Be a Morning". Farmer's life recounts one of the darkest chapters in Hollywood history, as her strong political and personal ethics black- balled her career, and she eventually spent time in several mental institutions. Farmer was definitely an actress ahead-of-her-time, refusing to bow to studio conventions and only starring in films she felt were right for her talents. At the apex of her fame, she abandoned Tinseltown for the legitimate Broadway stage. Unable and unwilling to indulge their temperamental star, Hollywood painted her as a madwoman...and Frances took the fall.
Farmer's novel paints a harrowing portrait of her life living in a series of mental institutions. Not for the weak-hearted, the novel describes in succinct detail the day-to-day life in a madhouse. Though controversy does lie in the legitimacy of the book, with claims that it was Farmer's close friend Jean Ratcliffe who in fact wrote the bulk of it. Farmer underwent a lobotomy operation at the conclusion of her final stint in care, before hosting her own syndicated talk show for several years. Though whether Farmer indeed had the lobotomy is another debatable subject.
Jessica Lange offers a very sympathetic performances as Frances, and should have won the Academy Award for it (she won the Oscar for TOOTSIE the same year). Legendary star of stage and screen Kim Stanley plays Frances' crazed and possessive mother Lillian with all the raw human emotion she can muster. The film stays pretty close to the facts, but the love-interest (played by Sam Shepard) is pure Hollywood fiction. The other real star of the film is the haunting musical score by John Barry. Just like the book, the film pulls no punches when it comes to the madhouse scenes.
Still this is a fantastic film and a fine monument to Hollywood's eternal abused soul - Frances Farmer.