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.

Human emotions, I have always loved that! Everything is so organic, so natural. Truly a "french new wave" movie. The thing that I miss the most was choreography on dancing, I wanted more, to get little bit familiar with the character personality. Every time when I think of the movie, I am smiling. So many short stories for example - one frame - going back from Paris, we see the plane's wing - so simple, so bright - you don't need nothing more.Sometimes we have to make compromises to achieve something, but no matter what we do, we always need our closest friends around us! Splendid acting, camera work and soundtrack! You are feeling like you are flying little above a water - that's the feeling that I felt while watching the movie. No wonder why is the critics choice!

It was my birthday recently. Officially I'm in my late-20's; the point in one's life where career goals take precedence over impromptu road trips with friends. Where settling into a routine is a sign of maturity and love is no longer about romance and magic but about compatibility and "the future". Needless to say, I'm not where I should be (are any of us?). Life can sometimes feel like playing a game after it's already started and realizing most of the game- pieces have gone missing. Sometimes we just have to make due.Frances Ha is a kindhearted and bittersweet pat on the shoulder to those feeling the existential dread of growing up. When we first meet Frances (Gerwig) our free-spirited protagonist, she's hitting the New York City Subway with her best friend and roommate Sophie (Sumner). Sophie confirms Frances's fear that she'll be moving out and living with her fiancée Dan (Esper). That revelation, coupled with the dwindling hopes of making a coveted spot in her dance troop sends Frances into a tailspin. The film then gently drifts with Frances as she struggles to make the adjustments in her life she needs, while still shooting for the dreams that brought her this far.Frances Ha is not a cautionary tale about the folly of dreams, nor is it an obnoxiously twee endorsement of their tenacity. Instead the camera follows our beleaguered hero with kind eyes, hoping to gain insight through granular subjectivity. By all respects Frances is a hot mess, but she exhibits an intelligence and effervescence that overwhelms the audience's inclination to call her and the people around her self-absorbed. We don't know what will become of Frances and her dreams but we as the audience are invited into every detail of her sun-kissed world. Even when she takes a fruitless trip to Paris; a dalliance few millennials can afford, we still sympathize with her and want her to succeed.Both director Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote the screenplay resulting in a film so nuanced and complex that it can't help but feel personal. The crisp black and white cinematography and elliptic montages sprinkled throughout evoke memories of the French New Wave yet the straightforward narrative aims for something more oblique than simply being a disruptive force. While Jules and Jim (1962) is brassy, Frances Ha is reticent; while Vivre Sa Vie (1962) is socio- political, Frances Ha is singular. Calling back to the visual aesthetics and style of the 60's, Baumbach and Gerwig successfully build a serene naturalistic world within the bustling monoliths of New York City. In Frances's own words "It's like magic."At twenty-seven years old, Frances craves the emotional, intellectual and spiritual maturity that everyone around her seems to have. She asks others, almost naively, who she is and who she might become. She never realizes that the same people she asks don't have answers for themselves yet. Friends Benji (Zegen) and Lev (Driver) act like wayward Bohemians despite their breeding. Yet despite their pretensions they exhibit the same fears and the same aspirations as Frances and Sophie do. And much like Frances and Sophie, they eventually adapt and change. Dan and Sophie's supposedly solid relationship serves as a coda to Frances character development. The point in which Frances truly commits to change. I won't ruin the resolution to the story but I will say that when Frances muses "I like things that look like mistakes," you're still taken by her sunny disposition.Frances Ha may not impact you as much as it did me. The film entered my life around the same time the film itself enters Frances's. I feel her pain, I have experienced her disappointments and thanks to the film's stark beauty, I have shared in her small triumphs and sweetly clumsy bemusement. Frances Ha forced me to examine who I was and where I'm going; a feat few films have made me do. The film ends with our plucky hero writing her name on a label. A small detail that makes a bold, if gawky pronouncement: "I am here." It's an inspiring final tableau; one that makes me feel better about not having my life together in my late-twenties.

This is a story of a girl, Frances, who is awkward and wants to be a pro dancer. She always lives desperately and does the things hard. She lives an apartment with her best friend, Sophie. She wants to be with Sophie forever, but Sophie leaves the apartment because Sophie lives with her boyfriend. Frances is alone, and her job of dance doesn't well. She doesn't know what to do. However, she catches up on herself again. Then she does gradually what she can do. She moves us, and I think I won't fear a failure and will work hard. Also, this is a black-and-white movie, the simple mood is very good and fits into the story. I don't like black-and-white movies very much, but this movie is visible. In conclusion, I recommend this movie people who worry about their future or themselves. I want to watch this again.