Frances Ha

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Movie
German title Frances Ha
Original title Frances Ha
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Noah Baumbach
script Noah Baumbach
Greta Gerwig
production Noah Baumbach
Scott Rudin
Lila Yacoub
Rodrigo Teixeira
music George Drakoulias
camera Sam Levy
cut Jennifer Lame
occupation

Frances Ha is an American independent film directed by Noah Baumbach in 2012. It premiered on September 1, 2012 at the Telluride Film Festival , and was released on May 17, 2013 in the USA and August 1, 2013 in Germany.

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The 27-year-old Frances Halladay comes from Sacramento , is doing dance training with an ensemble in Brooklyn , teaches courses for beginners there and is striving for a permanent commitment. She lives in a shared apartment with her best friend Sophie, who she has known since college . However, Frances' friend Dan wants her to move in with him. Her hesitant reaction to this - she enjoys living with Sophie and is almost symbiotic - leads to an argument and eventually to the separation from Dan. However, Sophie now reveals to her that she plans to move to another friend in Tribeca . In search of an affordable apartment, she comes back to Lev, whom she met at a party. She moves in with him and Benji, two young artists from well-off families. They grant her a low rent until she can raise more money through a permanent commitment to her dance company. However, Frances does not get the job she was hoping for. Instead, her boss Colleen offers her to work in the office and develop her own choreographies on the side. Disappointed and under the pretext of already having another offer, she leaves the ensemble and, due to lack of money, the shared apartment.

Frances is staying with Rachel, another dancer, for a few weeks. Rachel's friends, who lead a more regulated and financially secure life than Frances, invite the two to dinner. During the conversation, Frances discovers that the others know Sophie and her friend Patch. She also notices that her relationship with Sophie is no longer as close as it used to be, as it is only here, through third parties, that she learns that Sophie will move to Tokyo with Patch . Rachel's friends offer Frances to live in an apartment in Paris for free . That same evening she decides to fly there for two days at the end of the week, although she actually cannot afford the trip. Once there, she tries to meet Abby, an old friend. She wanders around town awaiting a call back. Instead of Abby, however, Sophie calls to invite Frances to her farewell party. Frances refuses and deliberately conceals from Sophie that she is in Paris. Abby doesn't get in touch until Frances is back in the United States.

To stay afloat, Frances takes a job at her old college, and moves into a room in the dorm . At a party where she works as a waitress, she meets Sophie and Patch. At first she tries to hide from them, but then spontaneously interferes with the friend's conversation. It shows how tense the relationship between the two has become. Nevertheless, Sophie knocks on Frances' door at night and wants to stay with her. Sophie reveals to her that she had a miscarriage , that she is unhappy in Tokyo and does not want to accept Patch's marriage proposal. The next morning, while Frances is still sleeping, she leaves the dormitory and leaves her a letter.

Finally, Frances accepts Colleen's job offer and can now afford her own apartment. The premiere of her own choreography is successful, also because many of Frances' friends are present, u. a. the meanwhile married Sophie. The film closes with a close-up of Frances' first 'own' mailbox: the window only reads “Frances Ha”, as the previously improvised name tag turned out to be too big, which Frances suddenly stopped short.

Reviews

The press reacted positively to the film, in particular the leading actress and co-author Greta Gerwig , the "Queen of ' Mumblecore '", received praise. David Kleingers from Spiegel Online called Frances Ha the “most beautiful comedy of the summer” and the main character “many times more interesting than those female characters who have stood for indie chic in cinema and TV in recent years ”. Ulrich Kriest from the Stuttgarter Zeitung described the film as “a bittersweet, slightly melancholy study of delayed post-adolescence” with “a huge portion of romance, with Nouvelle Vague music by Georges Delerue , with stylish black-and-white photography, with bows in front Woody Allen ”. He predicted the “final breakthrough” for Greta Gerwig. Because "[t] that Frances looks so real has to do with the actress Greta Gerwig," said Tobias Kniebe from the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Till Kadritzke from Critic.de emphasized that the film, with all the fun it makes, “always leaves the conclusion to the viewer and deals with formulas of present-day analysis in a rather playful way”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven von Reden: Vintage Comedy "Frances Ha" , the daily newspaper , accessed on August 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ David Kleingers: Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig , Spiegel Online , accessed on August 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Kriest: Film review: "Frances Ha" , Stuttgarter Zeitung , accessed on August 27, 2013.
  4. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: "Frances Ha" in the cinema , Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on August 27, 2013.
  5. ^ Till Kadritzke: Filmkritik auf Critic.de , accessed on September 19, 2013.