Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach).

Frances Ha takes full advantage of its lush black and white cinematography to frame New York City with a nice street level feel evoking French new wave cinema. Anchored by Greta Gerwig’s captivating performance, the film is a wholly entertaining and satisfying series of vignettes and side stories culminating in, not a moment of revelation but instead, a slow, progression of growth and maturation on screen. Baumbach’s film is a story of closeness and loneliness all at the same time. It’s magic.

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