Northwest Film Forum

JUNO’s Ellen Page stars in Bruce McDonald's (DANCE ME OUTSIDE, ROADKILL, HIGHWAY 61) latest feature. This is a rattling, in-your-face trip through the hell of puberty as experienced by troubled Tracey Berkowitz. Based on Maureen Medved's eponymous novel, THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS follows the protagonist through the big, dark city, where she encounters dangers at every turn. The camerawork – non-linear chronology, jarring camera editing and the use of split-screens - renders cinematically what's at stake psychologically, as Tracey alternates truth with lies, hope with despair. The most daring and disarming turn, however, is the talented Ellen Page as Tracey – playing a "normal" girl indulging sweet romantic fantasies, while suffering paranoid visions and harboring an urgent need to be forgiven.