Mumblecore star Greta Gerwig collaborates with her "Greenberg" director Noah Baumbach to deliver an affectionate, stylishly black-and-white portrait of a still-unfledged Gotham gal. There’s a ...

The director's most buoyant movie yet wows the festival crowd at its debut. By Tim Appelo Telluride Film Festival Frances Ha Still - H 2012 All the authentically awkward comic lines cowritten by ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. It’s difficult to talk about Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” without ...

An aspiring dancer with more optimism than talent tries to find her footing in “Frances Ha,” and her clunky attempts to do so, which constitute most of the action in this serio-dizzy comedy, add up to ...

You’ll have to wait until the final scene to make sense of the title, a metaphor for Frances’s (Greta Gerwig) incompleteness, the sense of herself as not yet whole, not yet fully formed, a view she ...

Andy: So what do you do? Frances: Eh... It's kinda hard to explain. Andy: Because what you do is complicated? Frances: Eh... Because I don't really do it. I have never identified with a fictional ...

In some corners, Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” is getting lumped in with a certain cycle of mumblecore movies that focused on young white people with nothing to do with their lives except whining and ...

If pain is a reliable measure of truth, then Frances, the protagonist of Noah Baumbach’s new film, “Frances Ha” (played by Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote it)—who sets herself adrift in the stream of ...

Brecken Hunter Wellborn (he/him) is an educator and critic based in Dallas, Texas. He holds a Master of Arts in Critical Media Studies and teaches film studies. His writing and research areas include ...

So, I have this theory. Protagonists Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson of the 2017 film, “Lady Bird” and Frances Halladay of the 2012 film “Frances Ha” are the same character. If you’ve seen both of ...