Review of Frances Ha (2013) by Nizar E — 03 Dec 2013

"Frances Ha" is not a movie you can find everyday, because this energetic and joyful kind of cinema is unfortunately rare nowadays, specially when searching for a comedy that respect the audiences with the minimum amount of offensive words, which are the new silly fashion of consuming comedy features.

Noah Baumbach still making his own line that reminds us with French new wave (Jules and Jim) or maybe Bergman, Fellini or even Woody Allen, this time with the collaboration with actress Greta Gerwig who is starring it too. Something so simple and so quiet, with no great love story, but a faithful friendship between two girls in their 20s, as we really now begin to miss the strictly straight relationships of the same-sex stories in movies. "Frances Ha" talks about a critical period of a life of "Frances", after she broke up with her boyfriend, and separated with "Sophie" her great female roommate, without a clear job of living.

What is really most remarkable in this black and white drama is the editing with long shots, the fascinating soundtrack, and the nice spontaneous performances (Specially Greta Gerwig). But I really down with the plot, I guess it was experimental and I'm not a fan of this type. That view of mine comes from the one character leads everything, and so many supporting characters with no purpose to serve, so I really felt loose in the middle of this movie, and asked myself many times what is the intention stands behind it, but I'm glad that Greta Gerwig contributed in the writing as it's a female story, and love the word "Undateable".

Good movie can make your day. It's not romantic, it's about how to find yourself and how to understand your soul.