Fluffy entertainment for those not afraid of awkward, this slice-of-life about a free-spirited optimist features the new queen of awkward, Greta Gerwig (last blogged in Woody Allen's To Rome With Love). In fact, Woody is frequently referenced in reviews of this black-and-white New-York-set comedy, although his characters seldom live hand to mouth as our heroine Frances does. Co-written by Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach (profiled in Greenberg, which is cringier than this by a factor of at least five), the movie ambles about the city with Frances and her bestest friend Sophie and then suddenly develops a plot and takes off to other locations in the process. Sophie is played by Mickey Sumner, who just happens to be the daughter of Trudie Styler and Gordon Sumner AKA Sting. Look at the movie's official website and click on Cast & Crew to see Sumner as she is in the movie with dark hair and oversized glasses and then see this picture, which is what I would expect Sting's and Trudie's daughter to look like. A number of recognizable folks show up, e.g. Adam Driver (Adam in every episode of Girls and a smallish part in Lincoln), Michael Zegan (Damien in 42 episodes of Rescue Me and Benny in six of Boardwalk Empire), Grace Gummer (played Anjelica Huston's daughter in Smash and is also one of Meryl Streep's three daughters), and Charlotte d'Amboise (Broadway dancer-singer in, among others, Chorus Line, Chicago, and Damn Yankees), and more. Oh yes, Gerwig's own parents play her parents in the Sacramento sequence (yep, that's her home town).
No composer is listed. Instead there's a long list of songs on imdb. The movie is short at only 1:26 and critics are raving (91% with audiences averaging 81 on rottentomatoes). Check it out and see why it was 13th at the box office last weekend despite being on only 133 screens. And also see the origin of the title in the very last frame.
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