Before all the hoopla surrounding 'Lady Bird', Greta Gerwig was making a name for herself as the indie "it" girl. A mix of Diane Keaton and Grace Kelly. Developing her career as an actress in the softer light of a host of delightful indie pics, including 'Mistress America' (2015), which she co-wrote and Lola Versus (2015), Gerwig is all raw emotion and naked neurosis. She is unafraid to portray unnervingly fractured, hapless, fatigued, sexually clumsy characters. The creative offspring of such indie legends like John Cassavettes and Shirley Clarke. 'Frances Ha' is sweet, delightful and never the less consequential. Unwilling to be confined within the weak list of movie tropes, the film flirts with romance but quickly establishes Frances as a women who is open to love but not needful or desperate for it. One of my favourite movies.
Review of Frances Ha
