The Tracey Fragments is uneventful, anti-climactic and unrelentingly bleak, which in this case amounts to incredibly dull. The split screen effect is a distraction at first, and though eventually your eyes do adjust, the effect is not detrimental or supplemental to the telling of this story. The filmmaker doesn't show simultaneous action, just nonsynchronous bits of each shot. I would argue its artistic merit if only I hadn't seen this done in a dozen other "experimental" films. Though Ellen Page plays a snarky, disaffected teen very well, she had better break from that role soon, or she'll be out of work before she can say aboot.
Review of The Tracey Fragments
