Review of Frances Ha (2013) by Dominic S — 04 Jul 2013

Frances Ha stars the suddenly enjoyable Greta Gerwig who plays the title character.

Frances is a 27 year old dancer from Vassar University living in Brooklyn paycheck to paycheck.

In the beginning, Frances is living in a small apartment with her best friend Sophie, who went to college with Frances.

Frances works as an apprentice to a dancing company. She relies on her apprentice job to keep giving her jobs so she can keep up with her rent.

The whole movie, she is moving from apartment to apartment and from small job to small job.

The way this story is told is that Frances is the typical college graduate New Yorker who is trying to stay afloat while also doing what she loves, dancing.

The story, I feel, rests on the shoulders of Gerwig's performance, which, as I know of, is impeccably well done. She truly represents this girl who wants more who is willing to put on a "mask" to impress others to get ahead. She is quite talented, she has the determinability as anyone would but rather no confidence in her own unique self.

When I first saw her in the remake of Arthur, I saw her and I knew she could do better, and I wish she would. Then I saw her in Woody Allen's To Rome With Love, and I knew that Allen saw something in her enough to put her in his movie.

I enjoyed this film and the fact that it was filmed in Black and White.

Frances Ha, I give you an 80%.