Ari Cohen, Ellen Page, Erin McMurtry
"The Tracey Fragments" uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of why 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is riding out a blizzard in the back of a city bus, naked ex...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (989)
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July 12, 2009Ellen Page's best performance in a greatly-directed movie with phenomenal screenplay and concept. Other than that, the movie is tiring, unreal, idiotic, the characters are obnoxious, at times it doesn't make sense, it's nausea-causing. Because it lacked everything, they thought t...( read more)
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June 14, 2009This is the last time I watch a film with the word 'fragments' in the title. There are actually two things that frustrate me about this film. I guess I am not avant garde enough to enjoy the fragments of film we see and then there is the fact that this is a story of the underbe...( read more)
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April 18, 2009Not so much a film as an exercise in editing. It's got style and a distinct look but it's all too much. The film is essentially a recounting of events/memories, so the editing does work in context. It captures the frantic and fragmented nature of memories and thoughts. Sometimes ...( read more)
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October 14, 2009Would not consider watching this due to the fact that Ellen Page is in it...
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September 28, 2009"fragments" is definitely the key word with this movie, describing both the presentation of things, the mindset of the titular character, and how I (and I'm sure many others no doubt) feel about this movie. The Tracey Fragments is more like an exercise in editing or an experience...( read more)
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September 27, 2009This movie actually blew my mind. With some of the most overwhelming artistic elements I have seen in a film this movie can only help but be a jaw dropper as the entire film except for select parts are edited in the style of a comic strip where there are different panels on the s...( read more)
Critic Reviews
June 13, 2008
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
May 9, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, The Tracey Fragments seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature. full review
May 8, 2008
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Director Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments, a splintered form ostensibly intended to match the psyche of his protagonist. full review
November 2, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
By the time The Tracey Fragments fills in its last dark fragments, they don't have the emotional impact they probably should have. full review
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July 21, 2008Ok the first time I watched it I did not do it all the way. Gave it another try and it turned out to be pretty ood.
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July 19, 2008
I thought that it would be good because it had Ellen Page in it,I was wrong. The way the movie was shot is just way to hard to pay attention to the story line!!!
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