Greta Gerwig deserved an Oscar for this. That's it.

Seriously, the actors are just saying dialogue without any emotion throughout the film. There is no emotion to be had in the movie. The best actor in it is Adam Driver because he at least has something other than a monotone voice. I even signed up for an IMDb account just to review this movie because it is so awful. Do yourself a favor and skip this movie!

This is the first movie I've seen with Greta Gerwin, who is apparently a thing. I didn't dislike this movie, but it is full of all the moments that make up your typical indie art film. If you usually find them pretentious, that's probably how you'll see Frances Ha. I guess the idea is that the movie is more of a series of moments than a linear narrative. I didn't feel that it had the typical storytelling arc for the character to follow. I also didn't understand what we were supposed to think about the many odd choices the main character makes. She lies needlessly, makes some impulsive decisions, fails to take risks on other occasions, and just generally doesn't seem to have any consistent motivation throughout. You could say that the point is that she is a case of arrested development and hasn't figured out how to be an adult at a time when things should be falling into place in her life, but it starts and ends with her in pretty much the same place and doesn't add up to anything other than 90 minutes of a mildly interesting look into this character's life. Not really enough to warrant a film, but anyone who usually enjoys Baumbach's films should be just as happy with this one.

Not much of a summary I know - but I can't think of anything that could be more appropriate. Don't believe the pompous guff that I've read in some of the newspapers - that's how I ended up watching this unsatisfying offering.Without giving away too much of the plot (there isn't one) this film drifts around a lazy, vacuous, self obsessed dancer (who doesn't need to do much dancing, or much anything come to it) as she annoys and judges her few friends and virtually stalks her old college girlfriend.It's unclear where she gets her sense of entitlement from and thankfully, this isn't pursued. What passes for humour extends as far as her zany querkiness which soon wears thin. Anyone who has met (or even dated) one of these types of women will know that the attraction soon wears off - and they rapidly become irritating.The narrative soon becomes as directionless as Frances' life - and a completely pointless and unconvincing trip to Paris is used to boost the interest temporarily. One gets the feeling that the episode has been shoe-horned in to show Frances walking some different kinds of streets, accompanied by some nice shots of the city.Very few of the characters gender any sympathy - perhaps artsy people are the same the world over but it does seem that NY has more than its' fair share. The amazing thing is why anyone would thing the rest of the world is interested.