Frances lives in New York but she doesnt really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company but shes not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie but they arent 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.
Review
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig lead us on an expansive journey that takes place in the confines of several years in the life of a single character Frances. They cowrote the film and Gerwig is sublimely engaging as Frances a woman who prefers to focus on the moments along life's path rather than any sort of destination to the path itself.
Baumbach takes those incredibly realistic and often uncomfortable moments shapes them into blackandwhite vignettes that are both immediate and personal and then precisely combines those vignettes into this delicate and funny film. It's rounded off by an unbelievably talented supporting cast who make ȯrances Ha" an allaround joy to watch.