Review of Frances Ha (2013) by Jluis_001 — 13 Oct 2017

I was going to give it a rating of fivebut it won the extra point because I liked Baumbach's filmmaking style, however I must emphasize that the film makes many mistakes and although they can be a little dismissed unfortunately they end up affecting the general performance of the film.

First the script is very, very vague, very loose, I understand to what it aims but in reality it goes nowhere, Greta Gerwig's character; Frances, is not really likeable, I mean, I can accept people still struggling to find the direction of their life.

But she simply does not have any interest more than to wake up from one day to next, I had been told that the character was really nice and funny but I just didn't see it, anywhere, it was rather exasperating, at least she's honest and that is appreciated.

Also one of the worst things this film has it's the editing, something that hurts this film really bad. The editing in this movie it's one of the worst I've seen in a very long time, the way the scenes are intertwined is terrible, they gave me a feeling of great uneasiness because as I said the story goes nowhere and the interactions of the character are so banal and superficial, especially because most of them seem to be improvised. I admit it this film is simply the simplistic life of the character but I think they could have done something much more interesting. You have to be honest, it seems as if they had been thinking about which situations they could put the character in, instead of really making the character the center of the situation, because she always seems to be out of place and that was really off putting.

For this one I did had expectations and I must say it was a let down.