Surprised you liked it Cricket. One thing i liked about it is
WARNING: "Frances Ha" spoilers below
while we are always supposed to root for her the film doesn't coddle her, the film fully recognizes she is making poor choices and she gets mocked and kinda cruelly treated like ***** for it. There's a couple of unexpected scenes when people are outright laughing at her and calling her a failure in a more mean than playful way and she kind of has to keep up her happy go lucky demeanour both to keep herself going and because she knew it was true. It's like when people say they love a character but they just want to strangle them because of their poor choices, the script kinda did exactly that for us at times. There's also not much self-pitying allowed, there's of course some but not as much as you'd expect. And i don't believe it's purely supposed to be that she is such a positive person, the time she ventures towards self-pity the most she is slapped back to reality when her love interest slams her for daring to compare herself to starving Africans by pointing out that she is basically poor by choice, she could go home to her parents at any time or could change careers or whatever.
Also twee indie things often annoy me but i was weirdly into it turning out her friend was her soulmate that she was rabbling on about during her stoned speech haha.
Also twee indie things often annoy me but i was weirdly into it turning out her friend was her soulmate that she was rabbling on about during her stoned speech haha.