Frances Ha

Noah Baumbach”s portrayal of the life of 27-year-old, not-so-happening choreographer Frances (Greta Gerwig). Frances flirts about The Big Apple with no fixed abode; Baumbach follows the young woman in a breezy nouvelle vague style. Frances Ha is screened on the occasion of the premiere of Baumbach”s latest film While We”re Young.

Frances leads the typical carefree life of someone in her late twenties. She fills hours of talk with her roommate Sophie, has a few flirtatious encounters and tries to make a living to afford the rent of her Brooklyn apartment. When Sophie leaves and her job as a dance teacher falls through, however, Frances is out on the street. Undeterred, Frances keeps hunting after dreams with the same sparkling sense of humour.

Noah Baumbach (1969) drew attention with The Squid & the Whale (2005), Margot at the Wedding (2007) and Greenberg (2010). He is regarded as the chronicler of painful but often also humorous confrontations between young men and women in the big city, and his work is often compared with that of Woody Allen. Baumbach is also a screenwriter, having worked on films like Wes Anderson”s The Life Aquatic. Frances Ha, shot in black and white, was co-scripted by Greta Gerwig, who is applauded as one of today”s most promising actresses.