FRANCINE
"Raw, intimate and observed with penetrating acuity" — The Hollywood Reporter
Academy Award winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison.
Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine turns away relationships and instead seeks intimacy in an ever-growing brood of pets, eventually hoarding them. Gritty, elliptical, and voyeuristic, Francine is a portrait of a near-silent misfit and her fragile first steps in an unfamiliar world.
World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival
75 min / Fiction / 2.35 / Available on Apple TV , Amazon & Ovid
"a small gem of bleak, neorealist portraiture" — The New York Times
"[Melissa Leo's] performance is absolutely devastating" — New York Magazine
"quietly but forcefully, one of the best films of the year" — Thompson on Hollywood