Review of Frances Ha (2013) by Sophie L — 30 Jul 2013

Frances Ha is the kind of film that lingers long after it's over and.

Follows you home.

In all its loveliness, Frances Ha invites us to question how we live.

Our lives, accept that it's OK to run in circles until we find.

Ourselves; and for the more artistically inclined write our own.

Scripts.

Fresh, crisp, and very French, Frances Ha does not so much inhabit the.

Nostalgic landscape of Woody Allen's Manhattan to which it is widely.

Compared, as look the other way. It openly revisits the French New.

Wave's palette of François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and the tone of.

Jean Eustache's meditation on love triangles in The Mother and The.

Whore.

Little seems to happen to her. 27-year-old girl-next-door tries to make.

It in Manhattan. Nothing too revolutionary. When we meet Frances, she.

Is a struggling modern dancer who has more in common with Charlie.

Chaplin's tumbles than Louise Lecavalier's grace.

Frances' life revolves around her best friend Sophie whom she lives.

With like "an old lesbian couple that doesn't have sex". The day Sophie.

Brightly announces that she is moving in with her boyfriend, everything.

Suddenly comes to a crashing halt. She ends up staying with friends Lev.

And Benji, barely makes her reduced rent, imagines she is on the verge.

Of success when failure looms and follows her muse on credit. There is.

A lightness of touch in this entire movie that makes Frances' turmoil a.

Real delight to watch. All actors clearly revel in the material they.

Were given. I almost wished I had been one of them!

Where is the line between love and friendship, possessiveness and.

Possession, art and commerce? Whose side are you on? Greta Gerwig.

Delivers a subtle performance to which love, in the end, is undeniable.

Mickey Sumner's Sophie and Michael Zegen's cheerful Benji fill the.

Screen with presence whenever they appear.

Go see Frances Ha for how it will make you feel. Pick a great cinema at.

A quiet time. And see where it takes you.