Mel Freilicher

Freilicher's biographical narratives present a smooth blend of fact with fiction, and doses of autobiography throughout, turning the narrative voice into a sort of worrying appendage fascinated by its subjects. We see a strong focus on the under appreciated, misunderstood, and outcast. All are distinct personalities, but Freilicher lines them up in such a way as to see a thread through their personal histories that comment on the larger nature of fatality in the human experience, if not a particular breed of such tragedy unique to the American experience. Here is an informative and original composition that holds the interest.… (more)