Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it — a fate that awaits a good number of America’s incarcerated millions, though one we rarely see discussed or depicted on screen. A two-hander set entirely within the steel-blue confines of an American men’s prison, Petra Volpe’s “Frank & Louis” charts with grace and sensitivity the initially reluctant but increasingly dependent connection between two inmates: a 60-year-old lifer slipping into the fog of Alzheimer’s disease, and a younger parole applicant enlisted to be the older man’s daily carer.
The ensuing story of trust and purpose regained in a spirit-sinking environment only really has one place to go — Volpe has scant time for melodrama or far-fetched buddy antics. But it’s all the more moving for that steady, solemn sense of mortal inevitability: As one man’s life gradually escapes his grasp,…
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