Frances Ha

[rapta]

It did feel like what 'Clerks' was for nerds, this was for affluent hipsters (if anybody's seen 'The Comedy' yet, that film is basically the opposite of this). And was very obviously homaging Nouvelle Vague cinema every other frame. And you're right, sometimes you just wanted to shake Frances and tell her to get a grip but I think that was the point of the film - she had to find her own way there.

Not Baumbach's best in my opinion though, I think I even preferred Greenberg - in a way they both come from the same place. I would like to see Baumbach (as well as similar directors like Sofia Coppola) stray from their comfort zone a bit though...it is getting a bit 'tribulations of being privileged' and I'd prefer it to be a little more cultured than that.