Director: Noah Baumbach
Genre: Comedy/
Drama
Runtime: 86
minutes
Year: 2012
Starring: great Gerwig,
Micky Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Grace Gummer, Michael Esper
Description: A New York
woman (Greta Gerwig) apprentices for a dance company and thros herself headling
into her dreams, even s the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2025 MOVIE CHALLENGE.
WEEK 16: A FILM FROM 2012
Review: The strength of Noah Baumbach’s film have always been the characters:
they are pure and human, without grand gestures. He shows that you don’t have
to go all out to make a compelling drama. With “Frances Ha”, he aptly zooms in
on small developments in an average life.
The film revolves around Frances,
a young woman who needs stability, but has yet to find it herself. When her boyfriend
suggests they move in together, she refuses. After all, she has agreed to stay
with her best friend so she can enjoy being an eternal student. But the
relationship ends and not much later her friend turns out to have other plans. So
the she is, adrift on her own. Yes, she can dance, but not well enough to
really get ahead. While people around her begin to settle down, Frances has no
idea where to go.
Frances has many traits that
make her likeable. She is kind, free-spirited and open-minded. But her more
annoying traits make her the protagonist of realy felsh-and-blood with
understandable shortcomings. And that this film works so well is because of
Greta Gerwig. She has something tough and cheerful, but at the same time you
see that she is constantly trying to give herself a certain attitude. A cleverly
convincing fake self-assurance.
With a runtime under 90
minutes, a rippling pace and simple black-and-white photography, Baumbach keeps
it small and simple. “Frances Ha” is an intimate portrait of a
mid-twentysomething trying to get her life on track. Loved it.
Rating: 4/
5
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