Frances Ha

Frances Ha was advertised as a comedy, which is isn’t really, or at least I didn’t find it that funny. We went in fact having gotten the impression it was a Dutch film, which it most certainly is not. In fact, this is probably very much an American film, and one aimed to speak at a very certain subset of Americans my age, those of us that were raised in comfort and told to follow our dreams and not told what to do when we didn’t succeed, and then when we grew up and tried to do so, found there might not be room for us anywhere. It’s no coincidence that auter Noah Baumbach’s co-writer Greta Gerwig, who also plays the heroine, is in her late twenties; and this is a movie for her peers.
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