Frank & Louis

Name: Frank & Louis
Start: 2026-10-31T15:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-31T17:20:00+01:00
Location: Arthouse Le Paris

Thu 29 Oct · 17:40

About

«Frank & Louis» is a cinema drama screening at the Houdini cinema in Zurich. It tells of Frank, a man in his forties serving a life sentence with the prospect of parole, who joins a programme caring for fellow inmates with Alzheimer's and dementia and forms an unexpected bond with his patient Louis. The film is directed by Petra Volpe, who also made «Heldin»; it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the audience award at the Locarno Film Festival. It is shown in English with German and French subtitles (E/df), recommended from age 12 and made in Switzerland.

Written by a model, sources: riffraff-houdini.ch

Critics

7.5Very good

Critics praise the empathetic direction, the two lead performances and the rarely shown theme of care inside prison. Little is faulted, apart from the quiet, slow pacing of the storytelling.

Reviews: OutNow, cinemabuch.ch, Cineman, TMDb