Review of Frauds (1993) by Frances H — 04 Jun 2012

First-time director Stephan Elliott breaks a lot of the rules by flinging typically disparate elements together with sublime confidence in order to creating a strange and deliberately unreal world for his eccentric characters.

Elliott's thesis is that all men are children at heart - and that children are malicious, vindictive beasts. It's hardly an edifying conceit, and the movie has an over-insistent, meretricious feel about it.