Frances Ha

A bittersweet portrait of a young woman suspended between aspiration and reality. Frances Halladay, an aspiring dancer from New York, with charm and determination tries to find her own place in life, even as adulthood increasingly diverges from her imagination. Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig - co-writer of the screenplay and lead actress - create a film about the quiet fracture between dream and everyday life, between the energy of youth and the first experience of disappointment. Drawn in subtle black and white, "Frances Ha" combines the lightness of a contemporary urban story with the elegance of French New Wave cinema and the melancholy of classic New York filmmaking. The famous scene of running through city streets to David Bowie's "Modern Love," read as a nod to Leos Carax's "Bad Blood," becomes one of the most complete images of the protagonist - full of anxiety, hope and the need for change. This is a film not about spectacular crisis, but about growing into one's own limitations, one's own truth and gradually becoming oneself.