Saint Frances
- 2019
- 1h 41min
Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAfter an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.
- Dirección
- Guionista
- Elenco
- Premios
- 11 premios ganados y 17 nominaciones en total
- Frances
- (as Ramona Edith-Williams)
- Dirección
- Guionista
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Opiniones destacadas
"Saint Frances" isn't a great movie, but it's a very good one and feels in its own unambitious way like something fresh among a sea of mediocre movies. Writer and star Kelly O'Sullivan creates a character who some viewers are sure to dislike and judge, but it's also a character that feels authentic and complex and real and like, you know, the way actual real people are instead of the way they're depicted in lots of other carefully scripted films. The movie has a preoccupation with the biology of women in general and with menstrual blood in particular, and it's to the film's credit that it treats with matter-of-fact seriousness things (like periods, breast feeding, and other things that only women experience) that are used as the butts of jokes in our popular culture or otherwise inexplicably treated with outright disgust. It commits that sin common to feel-good indie movies of wanting to wrap up everything a bit too neatly with a shiny bow, but the sin isn't so egregious in this movie as to ruin the overall experience of watching it.
I also got a kick out of the fact that the movie is set in and was filmed, at least partially, in Evanston, Illinois, which is where I live. It was really fun recognizing locations and dissecting how accurately the film captured life in such a liberal progressive community.
Grade: A-
This lovely American Indie movie, Saint Frances, written by and starring Kelly O'Sullivan. Nope, me neither.
It's the story of a 30 something 'girl' who's pretty much failed in life so far, who simultaneously gets a new boyfriend who gets her pregnant but is happy with her undertaking a quick abortion (and go halfers on the fee), and lands a summer job as a nanny for a six year old kid who has mixed race lesbian parents.
The kid's a brat and is running through nannies.
So you know how this all gonna pan out right?
Well, not really. What we embark on is a fairly, but not overly, emotional study in female empowerment (and actually entitlement because one of the moms is a pretty high achieving ball buster), loneliness, self-worth and social value.
The one guy in the movie isn't cast asunder as unimportant but he plays a side role. He's a good guy actually.
The four-way Mom, mom, nanny, kid (and a new baby which makes suppressed Mom, depressed Mom) dynamic is complicated and rarely sees the main protagonist played by O'Sullivan in a position of strength. Meanwhile her abortion has some fairly gross out complications although none that derail the narrative.
It's actually a bit of a comedy but it's a lot more than that. It's certainly bittersweet, but sweet enough.
Hugely thought provoking with several powerful central performances, a strong exploration of issues that face women today (one critic said it was too woke for its own good but I disagree) and a few really good laughs along the way.
What's not to love?
Thoughtful and well done. Yes contains lesbian moms and an abortion but those felt secondary to the story of feeling aimless at 34. There are so many movies where we are asked to take men's emotions and lives and bodily functions as worthy of film and I didn't know that I was missing the same for women until I saw this film.
Laughed and cried. Two thumbs up, well worth the time.
It is a slice of this woman's life and her relationships with others in it. There isn't a huge through line it is just a story about a woman.
I think it masterfully blends different themes together and I think it's biggest merit is showing how clashing ideals can blend with each other and people should just accept and get along with others.
It is a really well done movie and I think that more people should watch it.
The three female protagonists each, is a prisoner to their own secrets. All three women are muted by shame. The only real conflict here is their inability to talk to each other. And O'Sullivan's script much like her performance, is sweet without ever going sickly. Great stuff.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaOne of the first new releases in UK cinemas after they re-opened from their closure in the COVID-19 outbreak.
- Citas
Bridget: What if I was one of those moms who went crazy, and drowned her kids in a bathtub?
Carol: Those are the extreme cases. It usually doesn't get that far. When you were a baby and you screamed and screamed, and there was nothing I could do to get you to stop, I'd imagine taking you by the ankles, and swinging your little head into the head into the wall over and over until it was a bloody pulp.
Bridget: Oh, my God.
Carol: But then I'd feel so guilty from imagining it, I wouldn't actually do it.
Bridget: I don't know that you should tell that story.
Carol: It's the truth and women should talk about it more often. Wouldn't be as lonely.
- ConexionesFeatures The Life of Mammals: Plant Predators (2002)
- Bandas sonorasI Hate Myself For Loving You
Written by Joan Jett and Desmond Child
Performed by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Selecciones populares
- How long is Saint Frances?Con tecnología de Alexa
Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitios oficiales
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Свята Френсіс
- Locaciones de filmación
- Country Kitchen, Highland Park, Illinois, Estados Unidos(Diner where Bridget gets the call about the nanny job)
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 44,330
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 14,298
- 1 mar 2020
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 59,257
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 41min(101 min)
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1