Frances Ha
Short description
Frances Halladay is a 27-year-old in New York who aspires to be a professional dancer, though she is not truly part of the company she performs with and lacks the talent to advance. She shares an apartment with her closest friend, Sophie, and their closeness is the center of her life. When Sophie moves out, Frances is left without a home and without steady income, and she has to find her footing on her own.
Noah Baumbach directed and co-wrote the film with Greta Gerwig, who plays Frances. It is the sixth of the fourteen features Baumbach has directed, following Greenberg and preceding Mistress America. The cast includes Mickey Sumner as Sophie, Michael Zegen as Benji, Adam Driver as Lev, Charlotte d'Amboise as Colleen, and Patrick Heusinger as Patch, among 48 credited performers. Baumbach and Scott Rudin produced with Lila Yacoub, and the film was made in the United States and Brazil.
Released in 2013, the film runs 86 minutes and earned about 9 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7.4 rating from roughly 102,000 votes, and on TMDB a 7.3 from about 1,868 votes, while critics gave it 7.9 from 192 reviews, so critics rated it slightly higher than audiences did.
What's left behind the scenes
- Frances’ parents were played by Greta Gerwig’s real parents.
- Charlotte d’Amboise, who played the head of the dance company Frances (her character describes herself as a former dancer), is actually a well-known Broadway dancer. She is also the daughter of Jacques d’Amboise, a choreographer for the New York Ballet.
- Director Baumbach shot the film in black and white to create a sense of history and a kind of instant nostalgia.
- The film was shot using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera and Canon L-Series lenses.
- The film was shot as secretly as possible on the streets of New York and was known by the official title “Untitled Digital Workshop.”
- At the end of the film, when Frances writes her name for the mailbox, you can notice that “Ha” – the second half of the original film title (Frances Ha) – stands for Halladay.
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