It’s great how well Dear Frankie is currently doing, particularly with its run abroad. In a time where Scottish (and British) productions are finding it harder and harder to scrape money together to produce movies, even movies that have script, crew and actors all signed up.
I’m slightly biased in this, since I’m Scottish, but I think there’s a lot of talent, material and non-dreary drug movies in our country, and they just can’t get out. So it is good to hear a review of the movie from The Daytona Beach News praise it so positively.
“Dear Frankie” — a 2004 Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award winner — is a story that needed that kind of affection, because it’s a fragile tale that easily could have swirled off into syrupy sentiment. While the film has an elegiac tone and spins a mournfully sweet drama of family bonds tested and renewed, it remains firmly rooted in the bleak industrial grit of the Scottish seaport where it is set…
…So much of “Dear Frankie” is told in the stillnesses, the gazes among characters, and first-time director Auerbach could scarcely have found a cast more suited to that end.
Check out the trailer from Apple to get a taster.
