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BEST
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HUFFINGTON
05.26.13
ENTERTAINMENT
FILM
F GRETA GERWIG and Noah Baumbach are the modern day
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen, then Frances Ha is their
Annie Hall, except with the color palette of Manhattan.
Shot in relative anonymity, the black-and-white film focuses on the title character (played by Gerwig), a struggling
28-year-old modern dancer coming of age in New York. ¶
Gerwig and Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) co-wrote
Frances Ha together, giving the film an infectious blend of
energetic pathos. (Their on- and off-screen relationship
was documented in a recent New Yorker profile.) Gerwig,
29, spoke to The Huffington Post about the film’s hushhush origins, her thoughts on fellow 2013 indie sensation
Spring Breakers, and whether things are getting better for
female writers in Hollywood. — Christopher Rosen
Greta Gerwig
and Adam
Driver (Girls)
share a laugh
in a scene from
Frances Ha.