She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining hes her boyfriend. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. The Tracey Fragments crumbles for lack of a foundation, and it isn’t worth picking up the pieces.īy Victoria Large ©2008 More The 2008 Independent Film Festival of Boston Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. McDonald does have daring and some clever ideas, but he lacks a decent script. The performances grow as tiresome as the flashy visuals do, and the picture feels long even at a scant seventy-eight minutes. The over-the-top characterizations may be an attempt to reflect Tracey’s warped perceptions of her world, but they don’t make for compelling viewing. The rest of the cast doesn’t fair any better: they’re cranked to eleven right from the start and are left with nowhere to take their performances. But The Tracey Fragments adds up to less than its scattered parts, and Page’s intensity and courage are wasted here. Released by Lakeshore Records in 2008 (LKS 339932) containing music from The Tracey Fragments (2007). And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film.” Now, I do consider Blue Velvet an important film. The Tracey Fragments soundtrack from 2007, composed by Various Artists, Broken Social Scene. Tracey undergoes a lot of abuse, and I was reminded of a quote regarding Isabella Rossellini from Roger Ebert’s notoriously damning review of Blue Velvet: “She is degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera.
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS CRACKED
Page stars as the troubled Tracey Berkowitz, who is beset on all sides by unpleasant people, including a shrill family, the cruelest classmates since Welcome to the Dollhouse, and a glam rock crush who is inevitably less than he’s cracked up to be. It was with great disappointment that I came to realize that The Tracey Fragments falls pretty squarely into the latter category. And there’s a possibility still worse than that: all that surface flash could come to feel like an elaborate cover-up, aiming to mask the fact that there is hardly a story or characters to speak of. One hopes for the best when a director makes unusual choices, but such heavy-duty artifice can’t help but threaten to overwhelm a film’s story and characters. It’s a film fractured, with little rectangles of story blinking on and off all over the screen for the entire feature the (ahem) fragmented visual style and narrative are meant to mirror the titular character’s mental state. It aired in a late-night time slot due to the sensitive and adult nature of some of its dialogue, which was not censored despite being a television broadcast.You may have heard about the main stylistic conceit of director Bruce McDonald’s insistently experimental Canadian indie The Tracey Fragments, which has scored an unexpected level of buzz owing to the post- Juno celebrity of its star, Ellen Page. The Tracey Fragments is an ambitious project in which McDonald uses an experimental visual design. The film was broadcast live from the street-level "storefont" studio in the CHUM-City Building, so that passers-by on the street could watch the production unfold through the windows, and was intentionally scheduled to take place during the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival. The cast included James Allodi, Kelly Harms, Leila Johnson, Daniel Kash, Chris Leavins, Stephen McHattie and Joe Pingue. Bruce McDonalds adaptation of Maureen Medveds stream-of-consciousness teen novel The Tracey Fragments turns the screen into an ever-shifting mosaic, with anywhere from two to 20 separate images.
For the film, McDonald presented it as a "pirate" production of the screenplay in support of the fictional Turner's campaign to publicize it. The novel is an experimental metafiction which mixes the screenplay for an imaginary film with the commentary of a film director, a film critic and a fictionalized version of Turner himself around the difficulties of getting it produced as a film the screenplay portions depict the random interactions and conversations of various patrons in a bar, including a group of garbagemen who want to produce a film, a group of secretaries discussing their sex lives, and a gay couple. The film was directed by Bruce McDonald as an adaptation of the novel by Michael Turner. American Whiskey Bar is a Canadian television film, which was broadcast by Citytv in 1998.
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