Best movie of this year hands down!

Really Surprised!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a movie in which just starting the film, only with the presentation of their characters, I am already saturated with them. The two protagonists saturate me. I do not get any kind of affinity with them. They seem simple to me, empty and to top it all I do not see that they pursue anything.It's a movie in which the minutes pass and I can only think, but where is this going? I can not make sense of anything. Everything is happy, happy and we arrived at the end of the movie.To top it all I seem to be watching a TV movie on a Sunday at three thirty To top it off I do not like any technical section except the costumes. It really leaves me so cold that I can not think of more to say about it.

1. Writing/Acting? I think the writing really good and should keep you engaged. I don't know other Noak Baumbach's works but his fans seem disappointed with this one. Greta Gerwig character reminded me of Alicia Silverstone in "Clueless" and Lola Kirke is just adorable. Both leads were great as well as supporting cast. The writing combined with the acting made it enjoyable similar to movies rated 6.7 or 6.8 in IMDb. 2. Did it make me laugh? Just a little but I watched this alone. Greta Gerwig character gives you the most attempts to laugh.3. Unnecessary, unrealistic components? Scenes from old boyfriends house was a bit silly and unnatural but not over the top. The good writing keeps it in control. You find no special effects of gimmicks.4. Soundtrack? Subconsciously, I might be giving the movie higher ratings because the music put me in the right place. Subtle background songs that seem to have "The Cure" influenced in several scenes. There were other 80's tunes made it flow for me.

This was made by the man who gave us Frances Ha the previous time so on that count I was intrigued and watched eagerly. That one was fresh, vibrant, it captured uncertain life on the crossroads. It felt like American New Wave.This is a bit less, still in the same vein, about youth caught in between stations in life in the big city, a freshman (freshwoman?) in college and as counterpart a woman bracing for 30. They're both in New York, both looking for what the next step ought to be. The young girl is smitten by the other's brash spontaneity, by her ability to throw herself into things and just stir up life as she goes. But we also note that she's self-absorbed, not someone who listens to others or someone who is really mindful of herself or what happens around her. She waves things off but we note this as closeness instead of wakefulness.The young girl is turning all this into a story, the story as the film itself; when her friend reads it, she is irate, feeling betrayed but in another sense denying to see herself from the outside. The movie has moved to a spacious house in Connecticut at that point, going for screwball milling around a stage. At that point I was wishing for the free wandering of Frances.Overall it strikes some of the same sensitivity of portrayal as Frances, some of the same endearment in faces and transient life. It is a bit too cute this time, but within a container of wanting to find out about people in all this modern flux.The parting notion I find poignant. Neither marriage that would have cemented their bond, creating a Thanksgiving gathering each year, nor restaurant dream as hope for a beautiful next life pan out. Which is to say, the journey continues as it always does, she will be on a plane to LA, maybe it will be marvelous, maybe not. It's a film about courage and I'll always urge you to have these films in your life. Transience is such a marvelous thing, embrace it with all you have.

I thought this was a very good comedy, and very much in the spirit of Noah's other comedy oriented films; probably his funniest to date. Many funny lines. It carries insightful truths within it, but to me, reviewers who miss that this is a comedy, are missing the boat. But its a comedy that doesn't wait around for the viewer to catch up. In fact, I laughed more the second time I saw it because of the subtlety of the humor. The main characters have complexity, and the frosh college students actually act like college students. The central character, played beautifully by Greta Gerwig, captures a kind of person that very much exists in the world and is a very vibrant, paradoxical kind of person. She's a person you won't soon forget.