History Film / FrancesHa

Frances Halladay (Gerwig) is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer living in NewYorkCity with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan (Michael Esper) because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie; however, unbeknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

Frances Halladay (Gerwig) is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer living in NewYorkCity with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan (Michael Esper) because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie; however, unbeknownst to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

Frances Halladay (Gerwig) is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer living in NewYorkCity with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan (Michael Esper) ecause she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie; however, unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

Frances Halladay (Gerwig) is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer living in New York with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan (Michael Esper) ecause she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie; however, unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

Gerwig plays Frances Halladay, a 27-year-old aspiring dancer living in New York with her best friend Sophie. The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie, yet unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

* ShoutOut: It's tough to recognize just from the audio, but one of the movies Frances watches with Benji is ''The 400 Blows'', another DeliberatelyMonochrome SliceOfLife movie.
** The long shot of Frances running/dancing through the streets to David Bowie's Modern Love is identical to a scene in the French 80s film Mauvais Sang.

''Frances Ha'' is a 2012 indie {{Dramedy}} film by Creator/NoahBaumbach, starring Greta Gerwig. Gerwig plays Frances Halladay, a 27 year old aspiring dancer living in New York with her best friend Sophie. The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie, yet unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Frances has to learn to live away from and grow up without Sophie, who's moved on with Patch regardless of how truly happy the two are together. Frances still considers her her best friend even though they'll inevitably move apart, but she's satisfied with her new clerical work, her own apartment, and a possible relationship with Benji.]]
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Between Frances and Sophie, friendship-wise, though their getting back together as friends seems neither permanent nor the making of a happy ending-- it's clear that Frances has to move on without Sophie.

* IronicEcho: After getting drunk and having an argument with her fiancé Patch, Sophie stays the night at Frances' dorm. They share the bed, and Sophie asks Frances to remove her socks, mirroring one of the first scenes in the film.

* BurgerFool: Needing to earn some money, Frances works several unwanted jobs, as a waitress and a volunteer at her old college. She never works in a fast food restaurant, but the spirit is the same.

* FriendVersusLover: Frances and Patch don't fight over Sophie (Frances makes fun of him a little but admits she likes him) but Frances undeniably feels at least a little depressed over Sophie leaving her for Patch.

* HighHopesZeroTalent: Frances isn't without talent, but she's only an apprentice and understudy and it's clear that she's not going to be famous any time soon.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: When asked by yuppies at a dinner party what her job is, Frances has a hard time responding. Not because what she does (dancing) is complicated, but because "I don't really do it".
* PoorCommunicationKills: A recurring theme

* ComingOfAgeStory: The film follows Frances as she struggles to cope with life as an independent adult. By the end of the film, Frances' life seems to be on something resembling the right path, but she still has trouble wholly adapting to the adult world.

* GrowingUpSucks: One of the major themes of the film. Frances struggles to adapt to the adult professional world, for a while symbolically revisiting her youth by getting humiliating work at her old college.

* LesYay: Lampshaded for Frances and Sophie

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** While at her parents house in Sacramento, Frances spends a long time philosophising in the bathtub. When her mother gets fed up waiting to use the bathroom, she asks Frances how much longer she's going to take. This serves as a pretty good metaphor for Frances' life in general.
** During her trip to Paris, Frances misses much of her first day in the city by staying up all night in her room, then ignoring the alarm clock well into the afternoon.

* PerpetualPoverty: Financial constraints are a regular concern for Frances, as a combined result of her lack of meaningful employment, her living in NewYorkCity and her spendthrift nature. However, when she complains about being poor, Benji points out that she's not really that poor, and that saying so is offensive to actual poor people.

** Frances spends only two days in Paris (not really doing anything), because she has a meeting with her dance teacher the following Monday. When she has her meeting, her teacher points out that Frances could always have postponed the meeting, and that she almost did so herself on account of a sniffle.

* NerdGlasses: Sophie sports a pair, which along with her being a [[BrainyBrunette brunette]] and Frances being a blonde seems to lead people to assume she's an intellectual. In fact Frances is the much better read of the two.

''Frances Ha'' is a 2012 indie {{Dramedy}} film by Creator/NoahBaumbauch, starring Greta Gerwig. Gerwig plays Frances Halladay, a 27 year old aspiring dancer living in New York with her best friend Sophie. The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie, yet unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway. This is only the beginning of a long, difficult journey to adulthood for Frances.

* PerpetualPoverty: Financial concerns are a regular concern for Frances, as a combined result of her lack of meaningful employment, her living in NewYorkCity and her spendthrift nature. However, when she complains about being poor, Benji points out that she's not really that poor, and that saying so is offensive to actual poor people.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: When asked by yuppies at a dinner party what her job is, Frances has a hard time responding. Not because what she does (dancing) is complicated, but because "I don't really do it".

The stroy is mainly told in an episodic, SliceOfLife fashion. We get glimpses of Frances' life as she hangs out (and/or argues) with her friends, works with the dancing company, visits her parents and dances all the way home after getting a tax rebate. Frances sees the people around her growing up, settling down, finding careers and getting married, while her own life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. She symbolically revisits her youth at her parents' house in Sacramento, then by working for a while in her old college, with the constant question being when and how Frances is going to find her place in the adult world.

** While at her parents house in Sacrmento, Frances spends a long time philosophising in the bathtub. When her mother gets fed up waiting to use the bathroom, she asks Frances how much longer she's going to take. This serves as a pretty good metaphor for Frances' life in general.

The stroy is mainly told in an episodic, SliceOfLife fashion. We get glimpses of Frances' life as she hangs out (and/or argues) with her friends, works with the dancing company, visits her parents and dances all the way home after getting a tax rebate. Frances sees the people around her growing up, settling down, finding careers and getting married, while her own life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. She symbolically revisits her youth at her parents' house in Sacramento, then by working for a while in her own college, with the constant question being when and how Frances is going to find her place in the adult world.

* PerpetualPoverty: Financial concerns are a regular concern for Frances, as a combined result of her lack of meaningful employment, her living in NewYorkCity and her spendthrift nature. However, when she complains about being Poor, Benji points out that she's not really that poor, and that saying so is offensive to actual poor people.

The stroy is mainly told in an episodic, SliceOfLife fashion. We get glimpses of Frances' life as she hangs out (and/or argues) with her friends, works with the dancing company, visits her parents and dances all the way home after getting a tax rebate. Frances sees the people around her growing up, settling down, getting careers and learning responsibility, while her own life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. She symbolically revisits her youth at her parents' house in Sacramento, then by working for a while in her own college, with the constant question being when and how Frances is going to find her place in the adult world.

''Frances Ha'' is a 2012 indie {{Dramedy}} film by Creator/NoahBaumbauch, starring Greta Gerwig. Gerwig plays Frances Halladay, a 27 year old aspiring dancer living in New York with her best friend Sophie. The problem is that her dancing career has not been as successful as she had hoped, and her relationship with Sophie is becoming increasingly strained. Frances breaks up with her boyfriend Dan because she is not ready to move out of the apartment she shares with Sophie, yet unknown to her, Sophie is about to move out anyway.

Throughout the film, Frances sees the people around her growing up, settling down, getting careers and learning responsibility, while her own life drifts by. She ess

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While at her parents house in Sacrmento, Frances spends a long time philosophising in the bathtub. When her mother gets fed up waiting to use the bathroom, she asks Frances how much longer she's going to take. This serves as a pretty good metaphor for Frances' life in general.
* GrowingUpSucks: One of the major themes of the film. Frances struggles to learn
* ManChild:
* PerpetualPoverty:

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* SliceOfLife: While there is definitely a story arc, much of the film consists of individual snippets of Frances' life.
* ThePiratesThatDontDoAnything: When asked by yuppies at a dinner party what her job is, Frances has a hard time responding. Not because what she does (dancing) is complicated, but because "I don't really do it".