Frankie where is it filmed

Shifting from the New York settings of Keep the Lights On , Love Is Strange and Little Men to one of the most beautiful corners of Europe, director Ira Sachs offers many gentle pleasures in his latest film, Frankie , not least of them the gorgeous locations in the verdant Portuguese mountain landscape of Sintra.

Alongside the magnetic Isabelle Huppert in a role that draws with equal grace from her well of dry humor, flinty intelligence, diva hauteur and internalized sorrow, there are affecting moments to savor also from Brendan Gleeson and Marisa Tomei in a solid ensemble cast. That said, this is definitely a second-tier entry from the director, and an odd choice for his debut in the Cannes competition, with the French launch platform amplifying its hint of Rohmer-lite.

The Bottom Line Elegant but wispy. The opening gives us an intriguing glimpse into the title character with a few swift strokes. She is not expected to live out the year. Frankie has an aversion to maudlin displays of pity or tears, but perhaps in acknowledgment of the emotional needs of her loved ones, she has gathered them in this place of restorative natural beauty to provide some kind of comfort — as well as figure out a way around inheritance taxes. A lot of it for me is how an actor moves between dialogue and between silences.

There's a huge amount of detail in those pauses and in those spaces for the actors that are most responsive. They're going to share those pauses together. For example, I've never talked to any of my actors about subtext and I never talk them about motivation; to me it would be anathema because it would mean that together we are finding language which is going to limit what meaning is.

That really plays into the next question I was going to ask you. Two scenes that really stand out for me reflect exactly what you are describing: The estranged married couple eating or rather not eating together at the restaurant and scenes with the teenage girl.

So much is unsaid. So, in that case do the actors then talk to each other about subtext, did the married couple work out a back story for why they're so mad at each other?

I talk individually to each actor to give them enough information that they don't have to imagine the reality. I often send my actors out on dates together to spend time together and I ask them not to talk about the film because that being said I independently try to give them facts.

Over time, I see your films increasingly deal with the conflicts and connections between generations. But there's a good reason I discovered Ozu in my early 40s; I was the right age. So for all the characters in this film you have a sense of it's certainly not an accident but at some point you learn there is another generation that came before. I feel that now in my life I can't understand character without thinking about generations.

And you can't think about character without thinking about money. Money is one way that generations communicate with each other and there are some very painful examples of that in this film. Skip to content. Where is the shop in Diamond Dealers and Cockney Geezers? Channel 4's latest documentary! Christopher Weston. Have something to tell us about this article? Let us know.