Synopsis
Her story is shocking, disturbing, compelling... and true.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
1982 Directed by Graeme Clifford
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Jessica Lange Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Bart Burns Christopher Pennock James Karen Gerald S. O'Loughlin Sarah Cunningham Allan Rich Woodrow Parfrey Jack Riley Darrell Larson Jordan Charney John Randolph Keone Young Bonnie Bartlett Jeffrey DeMunn Lane Smith Jonathan Banks James Brodhead Jane Jenkins Daniel Chodos Rod Colbin Donald Craig Lee de Broux Jack Fitzgerald Nancy Foy Anne Haney Richard L. Hawkins Show All…
Victoria Rose Sampson Norman B. Schwartz Michael Colgan Kay Rose Robert J. Litt Elliot Tyson Robert Nichols II David M. Ronne Neil Brody
Het Ware Verhaal, פראנסס, Фрэнсис, 弗兰西斯, 여배우 프란시스, Френсіс
how does someone have three jobs during the great depression and i can't even get one in 2017
in all seriousness go watch the interview from 1958 with frances farmer it's so interesting!
I wasn't going to write about this. It's so personal for me that I didn't even know where to begin. Here's some brief thoughts on the tragic life story of Frances Farmer, whether accurate or not, the film stands as a powerful portrayal of a woman born in the wrong time and crushed for it.
There aren't many five stars ratings for "Frances" and probably rightly so. The first half-hour is clunky with narration and much of actress Frances Farmer's life is rushed through until we get to her destruction. Despite this I find all those scenes captivating. It's the second half when the narration disappears that absolutely floors me. Jessica Lange gives one of my all time favorite performances.…
i kind of reverse engineered my interest in frances farmer starting from kenneth anger’s hollywood babylon, which is a great book if you like salacious trash (i do, ofc) but it’s not exactly tethered to reality so maybe not the best place to start? but her story stuck with me and surfaced in the wake of #freebritney, both in the media obsession with her downfall and in a sort of 1940s-era conservatorship which resulted in her mother sending her to a state asylum when she acted out against an inherently repressive system. like her rejection of societal norms was pathologized at a time when you could just lock someone away and call them crazy. this film is partially based on…
Jessica Lange’s crowning achievement as a movie actress. She should’ve won the best actress Oscar that year, not Meryl. Heartbreaking, tragic and powerful. R.I.P Frances Farmer.
I actually had high hopes for this because it had such an amazing first scene (later I realized that its brilliance was due entirely to Jessica Lange's narration of an essay Frances Farmer wrote in high school so kudos to her mind and her mind only). It was one of the three things I liked about Frances, the other two being as follows: Jessica Lange's performance. She's so barely contained in every scene, and the parts where she really does lose her cool are imbued with such an amazing female rage, the perfect woman under the influence. I also loved Sam Shepard playing a communist journalist and seeing him and Jessica Lange fall in love but that's just because I'm…
way too long but Jessica Lange gives a spectacular performance. Definitely will be deep diving into Frances Farmer’s life after watching this.
1982 In Review - December
#1
The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
It's incredible that Jessica Lange never received the Oscar she was nominated for in this gripping film of a true story of a Hollywood actress who didn't make it because of her own over-brilliant personality, getting into conflict with everyone, having problems with adjusting to a society she couldn't agree with from the beginning; and although the film differs slightly from the true story, at large it sticks to the absolute truth at least psychologically. Jessica Lange is just formidable, and this must be her best performance. The interesting thing is that she actually very much looks like Frances Farmer, she was in reality just as beautiful as Jessica Lange if not even more.
Jessica Lange gives a powerful performance as a truly sad and troubled woman, making this intensely depressing film worth seeing. It did have a lot of false informations given about Frances Farmer's life but I like the intrigueness I get in here.
Grade: B
🔙First Reformed
Frances Farmer should've had her revenge.
Maybe she'll come back as fire.
You know, to burn all the liars
Leave a blanket of ash on the ground. That sort of thing.