Frances Ha

Frances Ha is a 2013 American comedydrama film directed by Noah Baumbach and written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Gerwig also plays the title role. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September, 2012, and was released in a limited release, on May 17, 2013, by IFC Films.

Frances Ha is directed by Noah Baumbach and written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Gerwig, who also stars in the film, announced it in April 2012, though Baumbachs involvement was not revealed until the films listing in the Telluride Film Festivals lineup. Gerwig starred in Baumbachs 2010 film Greenberg, and they decided to collaborate again. They exchanged ideas and developed characters and eventually cowrote a script. The Los Angeles Times highlighted Gerwigs foray as part of a trend of female actors becoming writers or cowriters other examples include Zoe Kazan for Ruby Sparks and Rashida Jones for Celeste and Jesse Forever. Gerwig said she did not anticipate starring in Frances Ha, but Baumbach thought she suited the part. He filmed Frances Ha digitally and in blackandwhite, the latter to emulate in part collaborations by Woody Allen and his cinematographer Gordon Willis in films like Manhattan 1979. CBS News compared Frances Ha s style to the works of Jim Jarmusch and Franois Truffaut. Filming locations included New York City, New York, Sacramento, California, Paris, France, and Vassar College, which is Baumbachs alma mater. Gerwig said that Baumbach filmed multiple takes so none of the scenes were truly spontaneous.The filmmakers included a number of pop songs, including Every 1s a Winner by Hot Chocolate, Blue Sway by Paul McCartney, Chrome Sitar by T.Rex band and Modern Love by David Bowie. This sequence is an homagecitation needed to Leos Carax movie Mauvais Sang, where Denis Lavant runs through the streets as Greta Gerwig does in Frances Ha with the same soundtrack. The soundtrack also references multiple French films it contains music by Georges Delerue, Jean Constantin and Antoine Duhamel, originally written for films of the French New Wave. The soundtrack includes a song by Felix Laband. ........

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