Mistress America (2015)

A good movie

“Recently, Noah Baumbach really blew me away with 'Marriage Story' (in my opinion, it was even the best movie released in 2019) and since this previous directorial effort was available on Disney+, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, ever since they started to work together with 'Greenberg', Greta Gerwig has become Baumbach's muse but, to be honest, their movies start to really look a like by now. I mean, even though Gerwig can play a flamboyant self-absorbed loser who can be equally fascinating and annoying at the same time like anyone else in this business, I'm afraid I have seen her playing this character too many times by now. However, what made this movie still really work though was the really neat relationship between these 2 'almost' sisters. Indeed, there was something really g” read more

Movie characters and books (20 movies items)

" People write short stories, talk about books and there is even a book club for pregnant women! :D"

Anautix' Movie Diary 2020 (148 movies items)

"28.07.2020 my rating: 7,0"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: January (26 movies items)

"First viewing - Jan. 23rd Given my deep appreciation for Frances Ha and Lady Bird, I figured I should seek out Mistress America. And while I enjoyed it I also think I wasn't in the right mood for it. Or maybe it was really just ok. The performances are admirable, the humor was hit and miss for me, and at times the dialogue was overwhelming. I was mostly entertained overall, but I never got caught up in the emotions that ran through it. So I doubt whether I'll sit through it again, and I'm disap"

BradWesley123's Movie Journal- March 2016 (31 movies items)

" DVD- 1hr. 24min. First Viewing An exceptionally fun, light screwball comedy/coming-of-age story, Mistress America is the best kind of surprise delights. Gerwig and Kirke are wonderful in their roles, as are the supporting cast, and the writing matches their energies wonderfully. It's a little slow during the beginning and end, but that middle section is just so wonderful that I was able to forgive it. "

Watched in 2016 (153 movies items)

"18.9."

From The Superb To The Crap - Movies Seen In 2016 (284 movies items)

"Mistress America is supposedly a quirky homage to screwball comedies from director Noah Baumbach. I think he should had taken advice from somebody as to how to make modern screwball comedies. It's about a young woman at college who starts to hang out with her soon to be stepsister. The main problem with this movie is it isn't funny enough. It feels too much like a stage play, they literally do stand around as if they were on stage. They even deliver lines like the audience were in the same audit"