Jon Jost's FRAMEUP is an excellent, extremely formalist treatment of the American road film. It retraces the lives of an ex-con and his lover as they travel through the Pacific Northwest into California, before they are caught in an aborted robbery and killed by lethal injection for
their crimes.
The film opens with a prologue of long single-take or still-camera landscape shots, accompanied by music and natural sounds, and brief bursts of speech. Then, a twelve-part narrative on the lives of Rickey Lee Gruber (Howard Swain) and Beth-Ann Bolet (Nancy Carlin) begins. The characters are
introduced separately: Rickey Lee is framed in a split screen, resembling a li...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins