In a transcendently luminescent performance, the brilliant Isabelle Huppert plays a dying French actress who has gathered her large complicated family together for one last holiday.

| Dec 7, 2022

Another low-key gem from writer-director Ira Sachs.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2022

Frankie is a symphony of light and color, expressiveness in gesture and speech

| Jan 14, 2022

I believe someone like Rohmer could have made this into a great film.

| Original Score: B | Jun 4, 2021

Casting Huppert as a terminally ill movie star who has gathered friends and relatives for a bit of wistful bonding, the whole thing is unconvincing...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 2, 2021

The approach taken by director Ira Sachs is utterly sincere and so utterly humourless, though the performances are quietly compelling...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2021

Sadly, Sach's new film Frankie pales beside its predecessors, despite the presence of Isabelle Huppert and Brendan Gleeson and a postcard-perfect Portuguese Riviera backdrop.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2021

Even within the breezy parameters of the travelogue movie genre (think Eat Pray Love or Under the Tuscan Sun), this sun-kissed melodrama is decidedly lacking in drive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2021

Sachs's delicate touch as a director serves his low-key story very well, keeping the tone reserved yet light, and the result is an unsentimental, unhurried and gorgeously shot piece of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2021

Too light to bear any of the emotional weight it is dragging along with it, Frankie has a fine cast but is narratively disonant to the point of collapse.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2021

It has its pleasures but after the nuance and emotional hits of Love Is Strange and Little Men, Frankie is a disappointment. Not even la Reine, Isabelle Huppert, can elevate this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2021

A tad disappointing from Sachs, whose characters usually have more humour, honesty and heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2021

Half the cast come to the rescue, guaranteeing, at least, a pleasant time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2021

A lifeless, shakily acted drama from the normally excellent Ira Sachs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2021

Though much of the film's impact is anti-climactic, and as a whole it doesn't really work though it does stick in your mind, the final shot in the sunset, where for the first time for a moment all the family are in the same place, is sublime.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2021

How acute the disappointment when a director you like and admire doesn't quite deliver.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2021

The story is enriched by pitch-perfect observations of human foibles combined with great casting choices.

| May 26, 2020

Viewers may get impatient since so little happens plot-wise, but the interaction is often raw and real, touching on bigger themes about the delicate links people make, even in families.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2020

Isabelle Huppert is marvelous in this intimate and melancholic story about life and love, the present and the uncertainty of the future to come. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2020

Taking a role designed to collapse the divide between performer and character as opportunity to uncover new levels on naturalism, Huppert offers another beautifully modulated turn in a part that is primarily reactive.

| Feb 12, 2020