A Peculiar Experiment in Content Guiding Form
Experimental director Mijke de Jong’s latest feature-length film, is a curious exercise in content guiding form. It’s ostensibly an investigative treatise on the nature of annihilation anxiety and the vast array of ideological, theological and sociological questions that inevitably arise in the face of mortality, but it never settles for pat answers or allows anything to be glibly categorized. Frailer is a messy, inconsistent, even challenging work that actually manages to succeed despite its own emotional and inconsistent framework.
Initially, this handheld, Dutch, existential female-bonding dramedy presents as a linear narrative. Mouse (Leonoor Pauw), a woman coping with a terminal cancer diagnosis, is surrounded by friends—Ted (Marnie Blok), Carlos (Adelheid Roosen) and Lian (Lieneke le Roux)—attempting to make the most of the time they have left. They garden together, share meals, wear matching dresses and plan elaborate road trips to various rural locales,...
Experimental director Mijke de Jong’s latest feature-length film, is a curious exercise in content guiding form. It’s ostensibly an investigative treatise on the nature of annihilation anxiety and the vast array of ideological, theological and sociological questions that inevitably arise in the face of mortality, but it never settles for pat answers or allows anything to be glibly categorized. Frailer is a messy, inconsistent, even challenging work that actually manages to succeed despite its own emotional and inconsistent framework.
Initially, this handheld, Dutch, existential female-bonding dramedy presents as a linear narrative. Mouse (Leonoor Pauw), a woman coping with a terminal cancer diagnosis, is surrounded by friends—Ted (Marnie Blok), Carlos (Adelheid Roosen) and Lian (Lieneke le Roux)—attempting to make the most of the time they have left. They garden together, share meals, wear matching dresses and plan elaborate road trips to various rural locales,...
- 9/17/2014
- by Robert Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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