Framing Agnes
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Directed by | Chase Joynt |
Written by | Chase Joynt Morgan M. Page |
Produced by | Samantha Curley Shant Joshi Brooke Sebold |
Starring | Angelica Ross Zackary Drucker Jen Richards Max Wolf Valerio Silas Howard Stephen Ira |
Cinematography | Aubree Bernier-Clarke |
Edited by | Cecilio Escobar Brooke Sebold |
Production companies | Fae Pictures Level Ground |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Box office | $48,147[1][2] |
Framing Agnes is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Chase Joynt.[3] An examination of transgender histories, the film centres on Joynt and a cast of transgender actors reenacting various case studies from Harold Garfinkel's work with transgender clients at the University of California, Los Angeles.[4]
Synopsis
[edit]The film explores the concept of the trans icon. It uses a hybrid format, combining scholarly analysis with clips based on archived interviews, filmed with transgender actors.
Background
[edit]The film is an expansion of Joynt's short film of the same title, which premiered in 2019.[3][4]
Cast
[edit]The cast includes Angelica Ross, Zackary Drucker, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard and Stephen Ira.[5]
Release and reception
[edit]The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival,[3] where Joynt won both the Audience Award and the Innovator Prize in the NEXT program.[6] In a critical review in Paste, Shayna Maci Warner wrote, "As a cinematic experience, the film feels pulled in several directions, formally incomplete and jagged."[4] IndieWire's review was similarly mixed, commenting negatively on the high proportion of academic content in the documentary, making it "feel more a history class than a story."[7]
The film was longlisted for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award,[8] and shortlisted for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2022 Directors Guild of Canada awards.[9]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 40 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Framing Agnes may be frustratingly uneven as a work of cinematic storytelling, but that's often outweighed by its thoughtful expansion of established historical narrative."[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Framing Agnes (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
- ^ "Framing Agnes (2022)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
- ^ a b c Sharp, Morgan (January 31, 2022). "Toronto filmmaker Chase Joynt on framing Agnes". Toronto Star.
- ^ a b c Warner, Shayna Maci (January 30, 2022). "The Intriguing Ideas and Rich Source Material of Framing Agnes Are Obscured by Its Own Meta". Paste.
- ^ Knegt, Peter (January 28, 2022). "The extraordinary new film Framing Agnes interrogates how trans stories are told — and by whom". CBC News.
- ^ Townsend, Kelly (January 31, 2022). "Framing Agnes wins two prizes at Sundance". Playback.
- ^ Dry, Jude (January 28, 2022). "'Framing Agnes' Review: High Concept Trans Documentary Is Too Meta for Its Own Good". IndieWire. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ "Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award Long List Drops at Visionaries". Yahoo! Movies. September 11, 2022. Archived from the original on September 29, 2022.
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (September 23, 2022). "DGC Awards: 'Nightmare Alley,' 'Crimes of the Future,' 'Night Raiders' Lead Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Framing Agnes". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ "Framing Agnes". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
External links
[edit]- 2022 films
- 2022 documentary films
- 2022 independent films
- 2022 LGBT-related films
- Transgender-related documentary films
- Canadian films based on actual events
- Sundance Film Festival award-winning films
- LGBT-related films based on actual events
- 2020s English-language films
- 2020s Canadian films
- Canadian LGBT-related documentary films