Frances Ha

Director: Noah Baumbach

2012 / 86min / 35mm

A love story about female friendship co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, whose radiant and garrulous Frances negotiates career, relationships, and the shadow-line of an oncoming quarter-life crisis. Wandering between Paris, Sacramento, and New York City—lovely in monochrome—Frances’s quest for self-determination takes her through low lulls and exhilarating highs, in a fabulously contemporary film that exists as an evocation of the liberatory exuberance of the French New Wave as well as a grimly familiar depiction of the exigencies of everyday life in NYC.