Frances Ha

"Frances Ha" is Noah Baumbach's, and presumably Greta Gerwig's, since she co-wrote the script with real-life partner Baumbach, homage to the French New Wave and the cinema of Woody Allen just as Gerwig's Frances is an ANNIE HALL for the 21st century, even if she is sans her Alvy. She may not be the kind of girl you may want to spend too much time with in reality but on screen she is a monochrome delight, a kooky heroine with a pedigree that goes all the way back to Jean Arthur and Carole Lombard.

The annoying thing with young rebels is that they always turn up to be like their parents anyway. How interesting is that?

I had high hopes for this movie, I really did. We ended up seeing it because Blue Jasmine wasn't showing anymore, which seemed like a natural choice since Frances Ha was being touted as a a'modern Woody Allen-movie' http://goo.

I loved this movie while im watching, as it builds a relation with you during the watching. the character story line is extremely honest and genuine.

As one of the screenwriters, Greta Gavigo also contributed excellent performances. I have watched several movies before, all of them are pure young American girls, but this movie can be said to be a turning point in her career.

Frances Halladay spends 85 minutes taking turns with her friends to deliver increasingly eyerolling dialogue as she lives out their semi-relatable but ultimately unengaging life. Our protagonist battles her way through financial issues, feelings of inadequacy, and complicated interpersonal relationships, and while this makes for as adequate a premise as any, the movie doesn't portray these conflicts in any original or even interesting way.

It's the most carefree movie I've seen lately. We are not unhappy anywhere in the connection we have with the film or the characters, but on the other hand, the distress we feel is present in all of our daily practices.

I usually don't write any kind of reviews, but this movie is so bad, that i felt offended and i had to do it.

Though brushed by Fame and with a translucent overlay of Manhattan and and its Parisian antecedents, Frances Ha seems for the most part to have spilled out of Lena Dunham's Girls-iverse, its female protagonist in an extended tragi-comic freefall toward the abyss of homelessness, of failure, of no longer being 20-something. Dialogue so dense it sounds drawn from a year living with a dictaphone is saved by editing, comic timing and star Greta Gerwig's successful negotiation of the tightrope of charm.