Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Frances Ha

Posted by tunenut on June 12, 2013 at 21:29:55:
This is in glorious black and white. It centers on Frances, Greta Gerwig, who is 27 and barely surviving as an apprentice modern dancer. She lives with her best friend, with whom she is so close that she says they are the same person. But her friend gets serious with her boyfriend and Frances is left floundering.

Clear antecedents are Woody Allen, especially Manhattan, his black-and-white ode to New York, Whit Stillman's portraits of young New Yorkers. There is a conscious attempt to evoke Jules et Jim, with some of the same music. And there is a passing resemblance to HBO show Girls, also about 20 somethings in NYC.

Anyway, it's all about Frances, who is quirky and arty and the type of person who would go to this kind of quirky indie movie except that she probably could not afford it. It's all about witty dialog and facing a very uncertain future and figuring out cheap places to live.

Probably it is indulgent. But I was completely charmed. It's just a nice movie about nice people and there are no guns and no explosions. And I enjoyed it more than anything I've seen in a long time.