The Frame

I was only able to get a VHS copy of this, which as I’ve said, gets on my nerves to a large degree, but hey. We work with what we’ve got. And I worked with this film three times through, and came up with “I don’t understand it, but I love it.” Which is good enough for me. Celine and Julie meet, become friends, and their identities merge, or something, but in a fun way, not so much in a Persona-esque way. Then there’s this house where some completely other story is going on, which they can put themselves into by eating certain pieces of candy–when they do, one of them becomes the maid in the story, which concerns a man, two women who seem to both love him, and a child whose life is in danger. The two girls take it upon themselves to use their shared position as the maid to save the child. How all this works, I don’t know, because it’s surrealist…however, just coming off watching INLAND EMPIRE, it seems downright logical and orderly. Heh. Anyway. I wanted to watch it more, but I finally just couldn’t stand looking at the crappy VHS anymore–hopefully the company that owns the rights will remaster it and release it on DVD before too terribly long.
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