PREVIEW: Frankie (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Marisa Tomei (In The Bedroom), Jérémie Renier (Slalom), Brendan Gleeson (Calvary), Vinette Robinson (Morgan), Ariyon Bakare (Jupiter Ascending), Pascal Greggory (Gabrielle), Carloto Cotta (Lines of Wellington), Sennia Nanua (The Girl With All The Gifts)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange), director, writer; Mauricio Zacharias (Keep the Lights On), writer; Saïd Ben Saïd (Bacurau) and Michel Merkt (Toni Erdmann), producers; Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Bone), composer; Rui Poças (Zama), cinematographer; Sophie Reine (The First Day of the Rest of Your Life), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Frankie (Huppert), a well-known French actress with a few months left to live, spends her final holiday with her large family in Portugal where, despite the picturesque location, everyone struggles with their feelings of love for each other…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Ira Sachs, the filmmaker behind critically-acclaimed films like Love Is Strange and Little Men, gathers an impressive international cast including Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson for a sun-soaked, complex family drama.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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