Frankie & Alice (2014)

Frankie (Halle Berry) is a go-go dancer who is struggling with multiple personality disorder (and does her best to try and hide it from her friends and employers). However, one such outburst lands Frankie in jail and in order to avoid jail-time she voluntarily checks herself into a psychiatric hospital. Once there she decides to work with psychotherapist Oz (Stellan Skarsgard)in order to try to gain an understanding of the inner ghosts that haunt her.As well as being the leading actress in this film Halle Berry is also one of the producers so this project clearly meant quite a lot to her - this is perhaps reflected in her performance here and I could see that she really gave this her all. The story is reasonably interesting and the film is well-paced, if not particularly well-structured. So on the one hand, you get a strong lead performance with few, if any, dull moments but there were a few things that kept gnawing away at me whilst I was watching Frankie & Alice...The film is structured with a non-linear narrative and normal films of this nature can be difficult to follow, but when you have a non-linear narrative in a film dealing with multiple personalities it does become a bit too much from time to time - this wasn't helped by the fact that in the early stages of the film that I was struggling to get to grips with which personality was which and how each personality slotted into the story. In the latter stages of the film I was starting to get my head round it all, but it was a struggle at times. Halle Berry's performance is good and certainly memorable, but sadly I didn't always find the screenplay complimented her performance all that well - I didn't think that her other personalities were developed as well as they could have been meaning that I found that I couldn't quite connect with/or get into Frankie's mind-set as much as I should have been able to.Despite my objections above, the film has enough of interest about it to make it worth watching and as already mentioned Halle Berry gives a stellar performance (albeit at times it's a slightly overwhelming one/two woman type performance).

Great film with a good story (sadly true) and terrific acting from Halle Berry. As the story unfolds the film is slow and mesmerising, with a great soundtrack and spot-on fashion for the period. It's interesting, dramatic and sensitive without being mawkish, I loved it. It's not a new theme, but this one feels very real, one to recommend.

Not tremendous not bad above average for certain. I recently watched Stellan S in Nymphomaniac vol 1&2 and I enjoy his performances more every time I see him and this movie is no exception as a doctor who reconnects with his professional passions while seeking to help the dual personality conflicted Frankie (Berry) a bit of mystery in this as well will keep you wanting to know what happens til credits also a good initial watch especially if you enjoy starring roles of Halle Berry where see gets to display her range as an actress in dramatic roles that do more than simply showcase her beauty exp Monsters Ball. I like the time period as well as the insight to Frankie's profession in that era as well and enjoyed the the how did it aspect of this movie.

Halle Berry is a deeply troubled stripper who has multiple personalities, much like Sybil, the well known Sally Field miniseries from 1976. Here she is Frankie, a woman who regresses into a Genius a seven year old child, and alternately, Alice a Southern white lady who dislikes black.people; good grief. As always, Berry is both beautiful and sexy, although I was disappointed that she is never nude, which surprised me, considering the fact that she is playing a stripper here. The doctor treating her figured out that she has suffered a traumatic event in childhood and so they must dig up these bad memories in order to cure our suffering heroine. Lots of angst is on screen and Halle is competent enough to deliver a decent performance, but by the end it only looks like a Lifetime TV movie of the week.