Frailer (2014)

Original title

Brozer

Directed by

Mijke de Jong

Genre

drama film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Dutch film follows a middle-aged woman who is fighting cancer in real life. It mixes documentary footage with fictional scenes to show her experience of facing death.

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What happens

Frailer (Dutch: Brozer) is a 2014 Dutch drama film directed by Mijke de Jong. Initially intended as a sequel to her 1997 project Frail (aka Broos), the film moves from fiction to documentary as it follows the main character (played by Leonor Pauw) fighting cancer in reality. The film also stars Marnie Blok, Lieneke Le Roux and Adelheid Roosen. Frailer was selected for screening at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Among assorted Frailer reviews, The Hollywood Reporter praised the "kind of kaleidoscopic portrait of a strong, smart, very lovable middle-aged woman facing death" but found the blurring of reality and fiction rather confusing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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