The storytelling eventually gets bogged down in its own fancy footwork, leaving a viewer to wonder why everything was laid out in such a complex way.
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11/02/07
The Tracey Fragments (2008)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:12
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Splitscreen intensive and at times ambiguous, this Ellen Page vehicle cum psychodrama takes audacious risks that may confuse.
Runtime: 77 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Ellen Page (JUNO) stars in this dark comedy about a teen who goes in search of her lost younger brother. From Maureen Medved's script based on her own novel, THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS features music... [More]
Starring: Ellen Page, Ari Cohen, Max McCabe-Lokos, Erin McMurtry
Director: Bruce McDonald
Reviews for The Tracey Fragments
Arty to the nth degree, splintered and, yes, fragmented
05/08/08
Even with the film's scant running time of 77 minutes, the unrelenting use of Mondrian splitscreen is bound to give anyone a headache.
07/24/09
All this proves is that watching a poorly executed scene from 19 perspectives is worse than watching it once in an unbroken frame.
05/14/08
But Tracey Berkowitz is the anti-Juno: Where Cody Diablo's heroine is insouciant and confidently nonchalant, Tracey is angry, insecure and filled with an unsettling self-loathing, which Page brings to life with a searing immediacy.
05/09/08
The basic power of the plot's rewound revelation isn't there, shrapneled by the form . . . Some films reward multiple viewings, but this film, offering multiple views, falls short of being memorably singular.
03/20/08
Unlike the frustrating gimmickry of Mike Figgis's Timecode and Hotel, McDonald's bedazzling multi-frame experiment poeticizes and enhances an otherwise slender story (forgivable at only 77 minutes long)...
05/07/08
This is a tough watch, but a rewarding one for those open to experimentation.
11/02/07
Too insubstantial to sustain the stylistic excesses of the multiple split screen approach
02/06/08
Even the adorable Ellen Page is entitled to perform in a dud.
05/09/08
By the time The Tracey Fragments fills in its last dark fragments, they don't have the emotional impact they probably should have.
11/02/07
[Page is] virtually the sole reason to see this duller-than-it-sounds experiment.
05/13/08
To criticize a film called The Tracey Fragments for being too fragmented may sound a bit on-the-nose, but this experimental drama from Canadian director Bruce McDonald is interesting for a while and then goes to pieces.
06/13/08
Will be remembered as a shard in Page’s filmography.
05/09/08
I have a feeling that this is the last time we'll see a down-and-dirty Ellen Page.
05/09/08
The Tracey Fragments is a grating stunt that plays like a film-school project, cutting a bland story into a million tiny irritating pieces.
05/09/08
Self-indulgent and relentlessly unpleasant...
05/06/08
The cinematic equivalent of a hyper-pretentious, solo performance piece whose style grows tiresome before you've even finished reading the playbill.
05/08/08
i pseytoabagkarntistiki fioritoyra poy kanei ta 77 lepta na moiazoyn 7oro, prospathei me ti dihos oysia haritomenia tis, na desei monologoys se eniaia afigisi, kai mporei na se ksegelasei otan to blepeis, alla ligo an to baleis sti seira tha akoyseis ton
05/06/08
This angsty Canadian movie directed by Bruce McDonald takes its title all too literally: Every sequence is splintered into multiple split screens, which means that you can follow the dreary, semi-incomprehensible action from many viewpoints at once.
05/09/08
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