Frances Ha

Frances Ha is an American independent film by director Noah Baumbach in 2012. The premiere took place on September 1, 2012 at the Telluride Film Festival takes place, theatrical release was on 17 May 2013, the United States and on August 1, 2013, Germany.

Action

The 27 -year-old Frances comes from Sacramento, makes a dance training at an Ensemble in Brooklyn, where he heads beginners courses and seeks a firm commitment. She lives with her best friend Sophie, who she has known since college, in a residential community. Frances ' friend Dan would like, however, that she moves in with him. Your hesitant response - they like and almost symbiotic lives with Sophie - leads to an argument and finally the separation of Dan. However, Sophie is now revealed to her that she is going to move in with another friend after Tribeca. Looking for an affordable apartment, she comes to Lev, a party flirt back. She moves in with him and Benji, two young artists from well-off families. You give her a reasonable rental charge until they can spend more money through a firm commitment to their dance ensemble. However, this commitment does not receive Frances, instead the offer to work by the director Colleen in the office and the way to develop their own choreography. Disappointed and under the pretext that already have another job, she leaves the ensemble and for lack of funds and the residential community.

Frances comes for a few weeks with Rachel, another dancer, below. You are invited together with Rachel's friends who lead a more orderly and financially abgesicherteres life as Frances to eat. Speaking notes Frances that the other Sophie and her boyfriend Patch know. She also notes that her relationship with Sophie so tight is no longer like before, as she learns only now that Sophie will pull in patch to Tokyo. When maintains the round of Paris, Frances is offered to be able to live in a private holiday apartment for free, they should be there once. That same evening she decides soon to fly to Paris for two days and take advantage of the offer, even though the flight they can not really afford. In Paris, she tries with Abby, to meet an old friend. In anticipation of a recall she roams the city. Instead, however, Abby calls Sophie to spontaneously invite Frances to her farewell party. She says from without revealing Sophie that she can not come because she is staying in Paris. Abby finally logs off only when Frances is back in the United States.

In order to stay afloat, she takes a job at her old college and moves into a dorm room. At a party, at Frances worked as a waitress, she again meets Sophie and patch. It shows how tense the relationship of two friends has become. However, Sophie knocks at night to Frances ' door and want to stay with her. Sophie tells her that she had a miscarriage, is unhappy in Tokyo and patch proposal would not accept. The next morning she leaves the dorm, while Frances is still asleep, and leaves her a letter.

Finally, Frances takes but at Colleen's job offer and can now afford a home of their own. The premiere of her own choreography is successful, partly because many are present from Frances's friends, including the now married Sophie. The film ends with a close up of Frances ' first own ' mailbox: In the window just says " Frances Ha " because the improvised nameplate proved to be too large.

Reviews

The press responded positively to the film, especially the lead actress and co-writer Greta Gerwig, the "Queen of, mumblecore, '" was praised. David Kleingers of Mirror Online named Frances Ha the "finest comedy of the summer " and the main character " is many times more interesting than those female characters who were in the last few years in movies and TV for Indie Chic". Ulrich Kriest of the Stuttgarter Zeitung described the film as " a bittersweet, slightly melancholic study things out long delays in post- adolescence " with " a giant dose of romance, with Nouvelle Vague music by Georges Delerue, with stylish black-and- white photography, with nods to Woody Allen ". He prophesied Greta Gerwig thus the " final [n ] breakthrough." Because " [ t] Frances looks so real, has to do primarily with the actress Greta Gerwig ," Tobias was Kniebe of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Stressed Till Kadritzke of Critic.de that the film at all fun he doing, " the conclusion always leaves the viewer with formulas of the present analysis more playful bypasses. "

2012 in film Screenplay Scott Rudin Film score Sacramento, California Independent music French New Wave
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