Frances Ha

If films were gestures, this one would be a perfectly timed shrug, with the smile to match.

There is no particularly cathartic climax to Frances Ha. Instead there is a more realistic depiction of Frances’ growth. Like Gerwig’s performance, it’s natural, it’s realistic, perfectly believable.

Funny and touching, Frances Ha may very well be the most eloquent take yet on a generation in flux – a cinematic talk-back to so many Atlantic articles, minus the scolding and the statistics, and uncharacteristically (for Baumbach) uncynical.

Gerwig, who previously starred in Baumbach's "Greenberg," is charmingly awkward. And Sumner (Sting's daughter) is an ace with deadpan one-liners.

Gerwig makes us want to believe that in a city where anything is possible, Francis Ha has the last laugh.

Noah Baumbach's film feels like too perfect a portrait of quarter-life malady, down to the rushed redemptive endnotes and Greta Gerwig's idealized heroine.

Aiming for lightness but landing with a thud, Frances Ha is a well-meaning blunder. Director Noah Baumbach’s ode to Brooklyn twentysomething life is a flibbertigibbet fable that, like a self-absorbed flirt you meet at a party, grates on the nerves despite being easy on the eyes.

Top banter. Tasty visuals. Dream-like. Kylo Ren. Spaciously unsettling. Love it.

Fun and engaging enough, the struggles feel real and relatable but the characters don't. Its black and white because ???

An ode to being young and free in New York that falls flat. I like Baumbach's style, but I'm not sure what's to be gained by filming this in black & white.

I suspect the script—and definitely the summary— were fantastic. I found it v relatable, being a somewhat still-adrift guy, but much older than Frances. Despite a great premise, I can’t find anything positive to say, other than I watched it til the end (hoping I would change my mind). Gerwig’s acting seems to have some bizarre goal of awkward over-acting, almost like she was drunk on set.

it's boring, nothing happens, for a "comedy-drama" it's not funny and it's not dramatic, the cinematography is mediocre, greta gerwig's acting is ok, her love story with her best friend is **** because the actresses don't have chemistry at all, everyone is a pretentious hipsters that doesn't actually do anything artistic (or at least it isn't shown), basically it's priviliged white people having to take really normal and basic life decisions ///****///