Country: Canada
Year: 2007
Duration: 80'
Tracey is fifteen years old. Her life is unstable, to say the least. Her father calls his children “accidents” and her depressed mother spends all her time smoking in front of the television. Tortured by puberty and by other pupils, Tracy seeks refuge in a dream world and since her parents discovered that she has hypnotized her brother, she’s constrained to visit a shrink. She seems to live out of reality, but when Sonny disappears without a trace one day, Tracey puts all of this behind her in order to go out and look for him. “The multi-frame concept for The Tracey Fragments first evolved as I was thinking of ways we could make use of a small amount of money and yet make the most interesting film. I thought of this device that Jeremy [the film editor, r.n.] and I had been using in the last couple of projects and thought it might really good for the film. It was the split-screen box thing – but rather than treat it as a transitional device as we had done before, we would make it the fabric of the whole movie.”
Biography
film director
Bruce McDonald
Bruce McDonald (Kingston, Canada, 1959) graduated in film from Ryerson University. In 1985 he shot the 16mm feature film Knock! Knock!, which was presented at the 4th Festival Cinema Giovani in Torino. In 1989 he won the prize for best Canadian film at the Toronto Film Festival with the movie Roadkill, the first chapter of his trilogy dedicated to rock’n’roll, followed by Highway 61 (1991), which won Best Director at the Festival in San Sebastián, and the mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1997), Best Canadian Film at the Festival in Vancouver. He participated several times to the Torino Film Festival over the years, presenting movies like Pontypool (2009), This Movie Is Broken (2010), and The Husband (2013).
FILMOGRAFIA
Let Me See (cm, 1982), Knock! Knock! (coregia/codirector Daniel Brooks, 1985), Roadkill (1989), Highway 61 (1991), Dance Me Outside (1994), Hard Core Logo (1996), Elimination Dance (cm, 1997), Fort Goof (cm, 1999), The City (ep. Gorky Parkette; Just Like Honey, tv, 2000), Lex (ep. Garden; Tunnel, tv, 2000), Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson (tv, doc., 2001), Picture Claire (Sola nella trappola, 2001), The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (tv, 2004), The Dark Room (tv, 2007), The Tracey Fragments (2007), Pontypool (2008), This Movie Is Broken (2010), Trigger (2010), Hard Core Logo 2 (2010), The Husband (2013), Hellions (2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Bruce McDonald
soggetto/story dal romanzo omonimo di/from the homonymous novel by Maureen Medved
sceneggiatura/screenplay Maureen Medved
fotografia/director of photography Steve Cosens
scenografia/set design Ingrid Jurek
costumi/costume design Lea Carlson
montaggio/film editor Jeremy Munce, Gareth C. Scales
musica/music Broken Social Scene
suono/sound Steve Munro
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Ellen Page (Tracey Berkowitz), Max McCabe-Lokos (Lance), Ari Cohen (Mr Berkowitz), Erin McMurty (Mrs Berkowitz), Slim Twig (Billy Zero), Zie Souwand (Sonny Berkowitz), Julian Richings (Dr Heker)
produttore/producer Sarah Timmins
produzione/production Tracey Fragment Inc.
coproduzione/coproduction Alcina Pictures, Shadow Shows Inc., Buffalo Gals Pictures
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Bavaria Film International
soggetto/story dal romanzo omonimo di/from the homonymous novel by Maureen Medved
sceneggiatura/screenplay Maureen Medved
fotografia/director of photography Steve Cosens
scenografia/set design Ingrid Jurek
costumi/costume design Lea Carlson
montaggio/film editor Jeremy Munce, Gareth C. Scales
musica/music Broken Social Scene
suono/sound Steve Munro
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Ellen Page (Tracey Berkowitz), Max McCabe-Lokos (Lance), Ari Cohen (Mr Berkowitz), Erin McMurty (Mrs Berkowitz), Slim Twig (Billy Zero), Zie Souwand (Sonny Berkowitz), Julian Richings (Dr Heker)
produttore/producer Sarah Timmins
produzione/production Tracey Fragment Inc.
coproduzione/coproduction Alcina Pictures, Shadow Shows Inc., Buffalo Gals Pictures
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Bavaria Film International
