Sick Product of a Sick System

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This film contains shallow sexual humor at the beginning that makes this movie too difficult to watch. It is also in black and white, which I don't think is very good for a romantic comedy. The 7.4 rating is far too high for this movie. There are many more well-known movies that have received a lower rating. Hollywood makes movies these days that get so unreal that it is almost cringing to watch. I would recommend Grandma (2015) if you want a comedy that is more down to earth.

A beautiful character study about a woman in her late 20's who can't quite get into the stride of adult life. Greta Gerwig stars in and co- wrote this portrait of Frances, who has a gig as an apprentice in a small dance troupe in New York. She is extremely devoted to her college friend Sophie (played by Mickey Sumner, Sting's daughter), and when she moves out of their apartment and starts a serious relationship with a man, Frances is thrown for a loop. There's more plot, but the plot isn't exactly the point of the film. It's mostly about Frances stumbles into a small improvement in her station after many setbacks and sets a path for herself on her own terms.

Frances Ha seems to beg for love and forgiveness by literally stealing much of George Delerue's music from the wonderful "King of Hearts" (Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold). It worked in King of Hearts. The music was written well and exactly for THAT movie, but it is casting pearls before swine to have swiped the exact same music and used it for the silly and sophomoric Frances Ha.This is a real problem with movies that have little to offer by themselves. The most desperate of producers and directors have their favorite all-time films to fall back upon, and and when their own abilities fail, many of them feel the need to quote their masters, often without crediting them. For this unfortunate film, it was Le Roi de Coeur.THe music from Le Roi de Coeur is not yet in public domain. If Frances Ha had had wider acceptance, there would have been a lawsuit. Stealing material without credit is plagiarism plain and simple, whether the old fits in the new guise or not--to my mind, Delerue's music is slandered here. Bah. A terrible movie with stolen music. Not much of a recommendation from me, I'm afraid.RM

This beautiful mumblecore is the typical story of growth and denial. The film tells Frances' story. An aspiring dancer in her late twenties, who looks for her path to maturity in the New York jungle.The film was shot in black/white, perhaps as an attempt to recreate La Nouvelle Vague, so we cannot talk about cromatism itself, but it actually has some nice planes, as the very first one, who irradiates the beauty of youth. However, the core and climax of the story can be traced on the quote said by Frances, having lunch with her new roommate and friends: "Sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do, when you're supposed to do it." This phrase is true. She was right, but she didn't understand it then. In most part of the movie she's trying to avoid that sentence. She cannot understand that she needs to take some responsibility, to start building her life brick by brick. She represents everything young adults are today. They want everything right now and with less effort. But they're in a boggy path too, they're fragile and still naive. They're crossing the street between childhood and maturity, as she did in one of those iconic planes in the film. And that's not a easy job, to be honest.In addition, the quote shows that she was struggling with herself, when she could just let things happen and 'go with the flow'. "I'm not a real person yet", she confessed. She was confused and a little sad because all of her friends and acquaintances were kind of fine, stable and, probably, with a well-known future, while she was fighting just to keep a stable place to live. This happen to all of us sometime. Not in the same way, but the same topic. There are moments when you feel that everyone is doing it better than you so you get a little mad with yourself. I think Baumbach was trying to show how things will be alright if you just do what you're supposed to do, when you have to, albeit, it's important to point out this is not always true. To finish, I'd say it's not about being conformist, but realistic. When she understood that, she was happy.Well done, Noah. A simple film with a simple story well developed, integrally. The photography is okay, the script is fine (nothing pretentious), and the acting is fresh and natural, kind of "no-totally-actors", but I enjoy it, somehow, so... 7,5/10.