Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ahoy Sexy! Frances Ha

Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach (2012)

Synopsis: Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she¹s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.



Greta Gerwig is one of my new favorite actresses. I loved her in Hannah Takes the Stairs and her random appearances in No Strings Attached. Most importantly, though, Adam Driver (Yes, the ADAM from Girls) is in this movie for a bit. As is a spontaneous two day jaunt to Paris, which really really really made me want to drop everything and charge a flight to Paris for the weekend.

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Waitress: Sorry, but the card didn’t go through. Do you have another card you want to try?
Frances: Oh, shit, sorry. Um, uhh this is a debit card.
Waitress: Only credit cards or cash.
Frances: Okay. I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.


 This scene makes me so happy.

It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess. 

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