8/10
Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes this year, Stopped on Track is a movie about a man named Frank with terminal brain cancer and his and his family's reactions and tribulations. Shot on digital (and interspersed with footage shot by Frank on his iPhone) it has a very honest, intimate feel. Milan Peschel is great as Frank, and the movie spares no ugly, brutal aspect of Frank's inevitable mental decline and demise. It's very sad, of course, and the movie does get a little cloying, but mostly it's an emotional, beautiful, tragic portrayal of something no family should ever have to go through.
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