Frances Ha

4.33
    Frances Ha
    2013

    Synopsis

    An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

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    Cast

    • Greta GerwigFrances Halladay
    • Mickey SumnerSophie Levee
    • Michael ZegenBenji
    • Adam DriverLev Shapiro
    • Charlotte d'AmboiseColleen
    • Patrick HeusingerReade "Patch" Krause
    • Michael EsperDan
    • Grace GummerRachel
    • Josh HamiltonAndy
    • Maya KazanCaroline

    Recommendations

    • 91

      IndieWire

      At times, Frances Ha strains from emphasizing the characters' snarkiness and disregarding plot. By routinely going nowhere, however, the movie eventually finds a distinctive voice that carries it through.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The director mixes moods with a playfulness that is both brazen and carefree and yet precisely modulated, yielding results that amplify the specific content of the screenplay. This makes for a film that, however cheap it was to make, is incredibly rich to watch.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Frances Ha is a patchwork of details that constitute a sort of dating manual—not one that tells you how to meet hot guys, but one that fortifies you against all the crap you have to deal with as a young person in love with a city that doesn't always love you back.
    • 83

      The Playlist

      Loose, limber and driven by a fierce energy and staccato/pause rhythm we haven't seen previously from this filmmaker, Noah Baumbach's sublime Frances Ha is a fresh and vivacious near-reinvention of the director/writer's comedic milieu.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Gerwig's performance is full of depth and nuance; self-conscious without being mawkish, clever behind the kook.
    • 80

      Variety

      Baumbach pushes beyond sincerity in search of truth, drawing from such stylistic forebears as the French New Wave, Woody Allen and Andy Warhol's Factory films to capture a reality that has eluded him on his more polished dramedies.
    • 75

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      Frances Ha turns melancholy and almost painful to watch in its last act as she and we see the dead end dead ahead. And the film doesn’t seem to earn the finale the two of them cooked up for us.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      Noah Baumbach's film feels like too perfect a portrait of quarter-life malady, down to the rushed redemptive endnotes and Greta Gerwig's idealized heroine.

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