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Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

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United Kingdom · 2004
1h 25m
Director Gerald Fox
Starring
Genre Documentary

This cinema-verité style documentary chronicles the life of the legendary Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank, whose work—including “The Americans,” the most influential photography book of the last sixty years— continues to fascinate and inspire both casual observers and aspiring photographers alike. Includes recollections of collaborations with Jack Kerouac and The Rolling Stones.

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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

This material covers a good deal of the same ground as the 2016 documentary on Frank, “Don’t Blink.” Both films give a strong “lion in winter” sense and are moving in their treatments of the tragedies of Frank’s life. If you’ve seen “Don’t Blink,” you may ask whether you “need” to see this. I’d say yes. “More light,” as Goethe put it.

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Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

The man is the movie, and the long stretch of lived road Frank describes as an immigrant grappling with his adopted country’s faults is revealing, at times heartbreakingly so.

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