Frances Ha – Review

Philip French, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Sat, 07/27/2013 - 4:07pm

Greta Gerwig shines as a privileged drifter struggling to grow up in a film she co-scripted with Noah BaumbachGreta Gerwig, a Californian educated in New York, emerged from that low-budget area of American independent cinema known for its stumbling verbosity as "mumblecore", first making an impression in the 2008 movie Hannah Takes the Stairs as a would-be playwright with a temporary job in Chicago.

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