Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's "Frances Ha"

I mean I don't like girls either

oh you

more like frances BLAH

right

I liked this a lot and have mixed feelings about "Girls." Also I love Greta Gerwig.

Watched the beginning of this, seems good. Like the Woody Allen/Manhattan look

this whole movie my wife and i were like GET A JOB LADY and in the end she gets a job so that's good i guess?

She had a job at the beginning of the movie and kind of had a job through the middle of the movie too.

Just bein' pedantic.

yeah but they were quirky dream-following jobs, not a quiet acceptance of failure job. which was immediately thrown under the bus by her rapid success in the competitive field of modern dance choreography

But she wouldn't have found success in that if she hadn't accepted failure as a dancer. And the success seemed rather modest anyway.

how much this chick gotta suffer adam?

I saw a sitcom or sketch recently where a guy takes a woman to Paris or some exotic European city and due to jet lag and poor scheduling of flights they end up sleeping through most of the trip, which was very reminiscent of the beginning of Frances' Paris trip. But I can't remember what show it was.

My favorite part of this quite good movie: it's less than 90 minutes.

portlandia?

xpost

Ah yeah I think it was Portlandia, good call.

how much this chick gotta suffer adam?

more! or... i think the story from taking shitty job to choreographic success is probably more compelling than the story that is told, which struck me as the same sort of romanticization of the neurotic and self-indulgent that baumbach's been retelling for years now.

My favorite part of this quite good movie: it's less than 90 minutes.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 18, 2013 6:04 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

Gimme The Loot is one my favourites of the year for this reason (it's 79 mins)

I guess I like the neurotic and self-indulgent.

I met a lass the other night who seemed quite Gerwiggy.

life, liberty and the quiet acceptance of failure

struck me as the same sort of romanticization of the neurotic and self-indulgent that baumbach's been retelling for years now.

I thought Baumbach kind of went out of his way not to do this. Overall the tone of the movie seemed deliberately ambivalent about the main character: like are you supposed to admire her or pity her?

is frances ha her name?

It's part of her name, the final shot of the film explains the title. I won't spoil it for you.

i was just wondering -- probably never going to see this regardless

You should -- it's less than 90 minutes. Endorsement enough.

this is a very good movie that is nearly impossible to describe without making it sound totally insufferable

life, liberty and the quiet acceptance of failure

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 18, 2013 3:24 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the new title of a mets blog

There is a lot of juggernauts I haven't seen but this is shaping to be my film of the year.

it sounds like The Charisma of Greta Gerwig, The Movie, which i believe i will pass on for now.

Actually, I thought she was kind of under-utilized in this, esp. her comic chops. This was a bit dry for my taste, but Baumbach usually is. I preferred Damsels in Distress a ton as a Gerwig showcase.

I know it sounds weird to say someone is under-utilized in a movie in which they are onscreen almost the entire time.

gerwig so awesome in damsels. never got around to seeing this cuz i'm a baumbach skeptic at best and that nyer profile really turned me off these two (much love for jennifer jason leigh) but it's short and it's on netflix so maybe.

more like Dumsels. that movie blew assholes... its not a patch on noba's fraha

Damsels bizarre idea of comedy reminded me of Andie MacDowell in Hudson Hawk

said it before, say it again, DID is probably the most convincingly surreal American drama (as opposed to Lynchian horror) I've ever seen in my goddamned life

You say surreal drama, I say failed comedy

Absolutely adored DID. A rare example of a movie that got better and better and better the more it went on, to the extent where I'm obsessing over it now. I see very few films that create and sustain their own reality like this - I would even describe it as one of the few genuinely surrealistic American films of recent years. A gentler, more polite, more naively prone to snobbery yes perhaps but more compassionate reality, where the impossibility of all the characters - the nobly dumb fratboys, the perpetually self-possessed (even in despair) damsels, especially Violet, whose brazen, luminous impossibility is allowed to tear through the fabric of our given reality by that glorious ending. So yes - a film with no obligation to fulfil any logic but its own.

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it's a Bunuel college flick y'all

ok ok I'll watch it again
really different flavour than the realistic Frances Ha, though, which seems to be aimed at eliciting "I know, right"s out of creatives who've lived/worked in that city

Damsels bizarre idea of comedy reminded me of Andie MacDowell in Hudson Hawk

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, November 18, 2013 8:34 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

Damsels rules so hard. I can see it not being to every taste though. You must have a high tolerance for silliness. I totally agree with it being one of the few films of recent memory that fully inhabits its own dream-like logic (Tree of Life is another).

Plus it has Adam Brody saying he would be gay if only gay people were still like Oscar Wilde.

Liked this a lot. Thought that the b/w actually helped as her life feels more and more uninhabited. Loved how the movie was broken up into just sets of addresses - could really relate to that.

Paris trip sequence terrific.

This was astonishingly bad

Just a warning to ppl out there who haven't seen the movie and read this thread

This was astonishingly bad

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:03 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was so in love with her roommate I didn't notice her.

Alumni party scene shot Vassar alumni house

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