Passes the Bechdel test
Frankie
2019. Directed by Ira Sachs, written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
8 women characters. 10 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 56. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.
- Released
- 25 Oct 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 5.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 55 / 100
- Awards
- 6 nominations
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Ilene 125 lines, woman
- Jimmy 110 lines, man
- Frankie 101 lines, woman
- Sylvia 98 lines, woman
- Paul 76 lines, man
- Gary 69 lines, man
- Frankie Frankie 48 lines, woman
- Maya 44 lines, woman
- Michel 44 lines, man
- Paul Paul 40 lines, man
Full cast, 15 people
- Isabelle Huppert as Frankie
- Brendan Gleeson as Jimmy
- Greg Kinnear as Gary
- Marisa Tomei as Ilene
- Jérémie Renier as Paul
- Pascal Greggory as Michel
- Ariyon Bakare as Ian
- Vinette Robinson as Sylvia
- Carloto Cotta as Tiago
- Mikaela Lupu as Bianca
- Mercês Borges as Beach girl
- Sennia Nanua as Maya
- Ana Brandão as Luciana
- Joana da Cunha Ferreira as Joana
- Duarte Ferreira as Beach Boy (Uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 56
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 to 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 to 8 | 13 | 12 |
| 9 to 10 | 29 | 29 |
| 11 to 12 | 15 | 17 |
| 13 to 14 | 72 | 47 |
| 15 to 16 | 42 | 39 |
| 17 to 18 | 12 | 16 |
| 19 to 20 | 27 | 21 |
| 21 to 22 | 13 | 0 |
| 23 to 24 | 1 | 17 |
| 25 to 26 | 15 | 17 |
| 27 to 28 | 3 | 42 |
| 29 to 30 | 23 | 20 |
| 31 to 32 | 41 | 37 |
| 33 to 34 | 30 | 14 |
| 35 to 36 | 52 | 0 |
| 37 to 38 | 6 | 12 |
| 39 to 40 | 18 | 38 |
| 41 to 42 | 1 | 0 |
| 43 to 44 | 2 | 4 |
| 45 to 46 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 to 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 to 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 24 | 22 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 1 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
FRANKIE: Good morning. MAYA: There’s people in the hotel, you know. FRANKIE: I don’t see anyone. MAYA: They can take pictures.
FRANKIE FRANKIE: Ah bon? Isn’t it? FRANKIE: I’m going to ask you both a favor: at least pretend that you accept my fate. For the sake of this trip, for the family, for today, please.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 52 are women's.
446 lines from women, 410 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
8 women and 7 men in the cast. 10 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 40 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 46% of the words (5,010), men 54% (5,771). Women have 52% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
9
Two men
16
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ira Sachs (man)
- Written by
- Mauricio Zacharias (man), Ira Sachs (man)
- Produced by
- Saïd Ben Saïd (man), Michel Merkt (man)
- Shot by
- Rui Poças (man)
- Edited by
- Sophie Reine (woman)
- Music by
- Dickon Hinchliffe (man)
- Production design by
- Silvia Grabowski (woman)
- Costumes by
- Silvia Grabowski (woman), Khadija Zeggaï (woman)
- Cast by
- Raquel da Silva (gender not listed), Theo Park (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
2 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
5 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Writing
0 women, 2 men
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Art
1 women, 0 men
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Editing
1 women, 0 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 53 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Vinette Robinson 38, Marisa Tomei 54, Isabelle Huppert 66
Men
Carloto Cotta 35, Jérémie Renier 38, Ariyon Bakare 48, Greg Kinnear 56, Brendan Gleeson 64, Pascal Greggory 64
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 56 scenes and 899 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
