Despite its edgier, visibly more art-house-like appeal, I’m a little bit surprised that no one hand put their hands on The Tracey Fragments sooner especially considering the buzz related to Ellen Page’s other, more popular film called Juno. TH!NKFilm have picked up Canadian indie pic (which has pretty much toured the entire film festival circuit) from avant-garde filmmaker Bruce McDonald (read our interview with him here) for a May 9th release.
Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved’s novel of the same name, Ellen Page plays a 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz
who is naked under a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her
little brother Sonny, who thinks he’s a dog. Tracey’s journey leads us
into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home,
through the brutality of her high school, the clinical cat and mouse games with
her shrink and her soaring fantasies of Billy Zero – her boyfriend and rock ‘n’
roll saviour. Her travels also put her in contact with the seedier inhabitants
of the city. Like Lance, her would-be saviour who ultimately puts her life in
jeopardy.
Here’s the film’s official trailer.
