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Posted : 8 years ago on 17 April 2016 05:52
Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Eventually, even though I did like it, I still had a hard time to connect with the damned thing. I mean, I really enjoyed the black-and-white cinematography, it was really neat and appropriate and, once again, Greta Gerwig, who has become Noah Baumbach's muse apparently, really impressed me. Basically, the main issue I had is that I didn't care much about the main character. I mean, I didn't have anything really against her but I can't say that she was really interesting either. With 'Greenberg', the main character was maybe a major douchebag but, at least, there was a lot going on with this guy. Concerning the other characters involved, it was pretty much the same, not even one of them had anything really interesting to say, the worst one was probably Sophie, the best friend of Frances Ha, who was a bitch most of the time. I still liked the damned thing though. Indeed, Gerwig remains a glowing actress, one of the very few who manages to have some great charisma and still look like someone that might exist in the real world and she is always quite spellbinding to watch. Anyway, to conclude, even though it didn't really win me over, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.
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Frances Ha review
Posted : 10 years, 3 months ago on 12 January 2014 10:39
it's not particularly funny and it's not particularly sad. if somebody wanted to make a movie for aliens about an average year in a life of an ordinary 27 year old art student, that would be it. i kept thinking: now, something interesting will happen, but it never did. such a monochrome black and white movie.
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Watch it as you are and transform into Frances
Posted : 10 years, 4 months ago on 20 December 2013 12:29
It was my personal favourite of the year. I just can't show how much I loved this movie but will try my best in this review to explain. It was just like the movie 'The Pursuit of Happiness' where it describes a person's struggle over professional as well the relationship with a best friend. I don't know why this movie was in black and white but very seductive, like women from Charles Chaplin movies. The expressions are 'the killer' if you are a man who fall easily for struggling women. 'Ruby Sparks' is my one of the year's favourite which was written by the lead female of the movie and the same goes to 'Celeste and Jesse Forever'. I know it is out of topic but I was saying the lead actress from this movie who played Frances wrote this. All these were women oriented subjects which rendered the movies from a distinct angle.
Frances is a cute and sarcastic woman in her late 20s lives with a best friend Sophie in New York city. She is not talented but as a professional dancer she earns enough to lead a happy life. Once she and her boyfriend breakup, Sophie too throws an another bomb as she decides to move out to live with her boyfriend. One after another her battle to survive in the city for rich remains hopeless. But pursue for her dream never ends as she wanted to be a fine choreographer. For all these she must hold back her downs of her life and aim only up to self discover the meaning of the life. Did she successful or not is what the movie steadily chronicles her efforts.
The character Frances will be remembered for a long time, especially by me. I just did not only had a fondness on that character but it completely transformed me as one. In fact I felt the movie deeply into me that I regretted for unable to give my support to Frances. I came to know I am in love with Frances in the scene where she runs on the streets of Chinatown. I think it is the best scene of the movie, very adorable. You must watch the movie till the last frame before the end credits roll up to know the meaning of this strange title. It was a silly reason to have names like this for a movie but completely cool and refreshing. It is not a thought provoking or an art movie but believe me it is definitely a must see movie of the year.
Frances is a cute and sarcastic woman in her late 20s lives with a best friend Sophie in New York city. She is not talented but as a professional dancer she earns enough to lead a happy life. Once she and her boyfriend breakup, Sophie too throws an another bomb as she decides to move out to live with her boyfriend. One after another her battle to survive in the city for rich remains hopeless. But pursue for her dream never ends as she wanted to be a fine choreographer. For all these she must hold back her downs of her life and aim only up to self discover the meaning of the life. Did she successful or not is what the movie steadily chronicles her efforts.
The character Frances will be remembered for a long time, especially by me. I just did not only had a fondness on that character but it completely transformed me as one. In fact I felt the movie deeply into me that I regretted for unable to give my support to Frances. I came to know I am in love with Frances in the scene where she runs on the streets of Chinatown. I think it is the best scene of the movie, very adorable. You must watch the movie till the last frame before the end credits roll up to know the meaning of this strange title. It was a silly reason to have names like this for a movie but completely cool and refreshing. It is not a thought provoking or an art movie but believe me it is definitely a must see movie of the year.
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Quirky Indie
Posted : 10 years, 4 months ago on 16 December 2013 06:38
"Frances Ha" is admittedly not normally my type of movie, but I was sporadically entertained by its down-to-earth charm. Filmmaker Noah Baumbach, who skyrocketed to indie fame after acquainting us with a cast of outrageously cruel, petty, narcissistic characters in "The Squid and the Whale" (I guess I've made my stance clear on that movie,) squares in on the lifestyle of the big-city intellectual again in "Frances Ha," but at least now the characters are tolerable.
Greta Gertwig gives a amiable performance as well-meaning, somewhat ditzy college grad Frances Halladay, who aspires to make it as a dancer. Her BFF is the bespectacled and kind of bitchy Sophie (Mickey Sumner,) and and two are as devoted as two friends ever were. When Sophie prepares to move to Japan with her boyfriend who she doesn't really love, 'Patch,' Frances feels lost without her best friend, and her life starts to veer off the the tracks.
Not a lot happens in this film. What's special about it is the real-life quality of the acting and dialogue. However, I did not like this as much as similarly naturalistic "Wendy and Lucy" because there was no high drama. I know, not every life contains a lot of intense drama. But in that movie Michelle Williams was struggling to keep her head above water financially and her fight to provide for her and her dog. She has a goal. Live. Or starve. We can't look away.
Frances simply flounders. She complains about money, but scrounges up enough to take a trip to Paris where she never leaves her apartment. She lives with two hipsters for a while and it seems like something romantic is going to happen with one of them, but nothing ever does. She wants to dance, but lacks the talent to make it happen. Frances is a nice girl, but the film lacks immediacy.
However, there are pleasures to be had from watching this movie. There is something to be said for getting entangled in a characters life, uneventful as it might be. Frances is a well-written character, and all the side characters seemed real. The down side- the astonishingly tasteless moment when drunken Sophie stoically describes the miscarrying of her unwanted baby as 'cool' . Ouch. It's hard to have sympathy for her after that.
I like the way this movie deals with the everyday awkwardness of relationships. The social difficulties Frances faces never seem forced or exaggerated. Anyone who has said something they later wish they hadn't (that's everybody,) drunk or sober, can relate to Frances. The film chronicles little moments on Frances' journey to become a self-made woman. I'm down with that. I just wish the story had been a little more arresting.
Greta Gertwig gives a amiable performance as well-meaning, somewhat ditzy college grad Frances Halladay, who aspires to make it as a dancer. Her BFF is the bespectacled and kind of bitchy Sophie (Mickey Sumner,) and and two are as devoted as two friends ever were. When Sophie prepares to move to Japan with her boyfriend who she doesn't really love, 'Patch,' Frances feels lost without her best friend, and her life starts to veer off the the tracks.
Not a lot happens in this film. What's special about it is the real-life quality of the acting and dialogue. However, I did not like this as much as similarly naturalistic "Wendy and Lucy" because there was no high drama. I know, not every life contains a lot of intense drama. But in that movie Michelle Williams was struggling to keep her head above water financially and her fight to provide for her and her dog. She has a goal. Live. Or starve. We can't look away.
Frances simply flounders. She complains about money, but scrounges up enough to take a trip to Paris where she never leaves her apartment. She lives with two hipsters for a while and it seems like something romantic is going to happen with one of them, but nothing ever does. She wants to dance, but lacks the talent to make it happen. Frances is a nice girl, but the film lacks immediacy.
However, there are pleasures to be had from watching this movie. There is something to be said for getting entangled in a characters life, uneventful as it might be. Frances is a well-written character, and all the side characters seemed real. The down side- the astonishingly tasteless moment when drunken Sophie stoically describes the miscarrying of her unwanted baby as 'cool' . Ouch. It's hard to have sympathy for her after that.
I like the way this movie deals with the everyday awkwardness of relationships. The social difficulties Frances faces never seem forced or exaggerated. Anyone who has said something they later wish they hadn't (that's everybody,) drunk or sober, can relate to Frances. The film chronicles little moments on Frances' journey to become a self-made woman. I'm down with that. I just wish the story had been a little more arresting.
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