Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013)
"When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that
proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life.
It’s
the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning,
unbreakable
connection to someone that stays around as lovers come
and go. Yes,
romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the
heart, but without a
best friend to guide you, life becomes less
tolerable. Cinema has long
been awash in tales of romantic love, of
course, but it’s rare to see a
tale of love between two female best
friends, especially one that
genuinely shows what it is like to have
that kind of soul mate, without
whom everything else would be askew.
But with Noah Baumbach’s latest
film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s
journey of self-discovery, ignited
by a fractured friendship."
Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner on Exploring Female Friendship in Noah Baumbach’s 'Frances Ha'