2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
1 h 25 m

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
1 h 25 m

Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

Summary Shot in cinema-verité style between New York and Nova Scotia, where Robert Frank now lives, the film captures Frank reflecting on a lifetime of image making that most famously produced The Americans, probably the most influential photographic book of the last sixty years. From the Lower East Side to Coney Island, Frank revisits places wh...

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Directed By: Gerald Fox

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
1 h 25 m

2019
Not Rated
Greenwich Entertainment
1 h 25 m

Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

Name: Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-05-29
Duration: 1 min 25 s
Rating: 75
Cast: Robert Frank, June Leaf, Andrea Frank, Pablo Frank

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Directed By: Gerald Fox

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Los Angeles Times

Jun 6, 2019

The man is the movie, and the long stretch of lived road Frank describes as an immigrant grappling with his adopted country’s faults is revealing, at times heartbreakingly so.

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

May 28, 2019

This material covers a good deal of the same ground as the 2016 documentary on Frank, “Don’t Blink.” Both films give a strong “lion in winter” sense and are moving in their treatments of the tragedies of Frank’s life. If you’ve seen “Don’t Blink,” you may ask whether you “need” to see this. I’d say yes. “More light,” as Goethe put it.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

May 28, 2019

Beautiful loneliness, as the film suggestively reveals, is a texture that Frank knows all too well.

By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

May 29, 2019

More than anything, the doc lives up to its name as a portrait of the photographer in his old age.

By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Granada Production

Release Date May 29, 2019

Duration 1 h 25 m

Rating Not Rated

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Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

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June Leaf

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Andrea Frank

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Pablo Frank

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