Francine
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  • Summary: After years of incarceration, a quiet, lonely woman, Francine (Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo), is released to start a new life in a small, rural town. But despite opportunities for warmth and connection, her years of “rehabilitation” have left her with little ability to create relationshionships and happiness, finding her only solace in her connections with animals. What happens when a second chance isn’t enough? (Factory 25)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Nov 7, 2012
    88
    Melissa Leo plays her without inflection, giving us no instructions about what our opinion should be. It is a brave performance, an act of empathy with a sad woman.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Sep 12, 2012
    80
    A small gem of bleak, neorealist portraiture.
  3. NPR
    Reviewed by: Ian Buckwalter
    Sep 14, 2012
    60
    At times Francine feels like a documentary as well, an intimate observational work in the mode of Frederick Wiseman or the Maysles brothers, where the omnipresence of the camera puts the characters so at ease that they reveal subtle moments of character that they might otherwise hide out of self-consciousness.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Farran Smith Nehme
    Sep 13, 2012
    38
    What with the unexciting hand-held camerawork, and the off-putting script and lead performance, Francine remains as frustrating as its inscrutable title character.

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