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Frank & Louis
A touching drama about an imprisoned man who rediscovers his own humanity by caring for a fellow inmate with dementia in a merciless place.
Frank, a man in his forties, is serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole. To cope with the brutal realities of prison life, he has emotionally shut himself off. When he is transferred to a new facility, he decides to join the "Gold Coats"—a program in which inmates care for fellow prisoners suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia—hoping that this commitment will improve his chances of parole. The work is demanding, but Frank develops an unexpected relationship with one of his patients, Louis Nelson, a man once feared for his power and authority. Caring for him pushes Frank to his physical and emotional limits.
FRANK & LOUIS, the new film by Swiss director Petra Volpe ("Heroine"), is a touching and universal story about tenderness, vulnerability and compassion in a merciless place, and poses complex moral questions without giving easy answers.
