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Ronald Bronstein (writer)
Release Date:
17 September 2008 (France)
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About a door-to-door coupon salesman who eats popcorn & eggs off the folded-out-door of his kitchen oven. | add synopsis
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2 wins
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Brute Launch from Nowhere
(From IFC. 29 September 2009, 6:19 AM, PDT)
Frownland on DVD
(From Spout. 28 September 2009, 11:23 AM, PDT)
(From IFC. 29 September 2009, 6:19 AM, PDT)
Frownland on DVD
(From Spout. 28 September 2009, 11:23 AM, PDT)
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A film that challenges you to watch.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Dore Mann | ... | Keith |
| Paul Grimstad | ... | Charles |
| David Sandholm | ... | Sandy |
| Carmine Marino | ... | Carmine |
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| Mary Bronstein | ... | Laura (as Mary Wall) |
| Paul Grant | ... | Exam-man |
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USA:106 min | Argentina:106 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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In a year of pretentious muck like "Synecdoche, New York" a film born out of Charlie Kaufman's own self-indulgence, comes a film that is similarly hard to watch but about three times as important. "Frownland" is a labor of love by the crew, the actors and the filmmaker, shot over years by friends. It traces a man who cannot communicate through his thoroughly authentic, REAL Brooklyn world. The people that you see are a step beyond even the stylization of the "mumblecore" movement. They are real people, painfully trapped in their own self-contained neuroses, unwilling to change, unable. The real world to them is their own set of delusions and because this is a film about people who are so profoundly out of touch, it is very difficult to watch. It is 16mm film-making without proper light, money or any of the other factors that would make a film "slick", but its honesty can not be understated, a fact that would cause a room full of people to dismiss it and for Richard Linklater to give it an award as he did at SXSW. This does remind of films like "Naked" or the best of the "mumblecore". It is a film that is not for everyone, but one that challenges you to watch and grows on you the longer you think about it.