“Frances Ha, Mr. Baumbach’s least overtly autobiographical film as a director, is not primarily an act of generational portraiture, on his part or Ms. Gerwig’s. It is entirely caught up in the individuality of its heroine, who is viewed with affectionate detachment, and in the details of her environment, which are given a romantic lift by Sam Levy’s supple, shadowy monochrome cinematography.”
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“A single girl trying to make it in Manhattan: Filmmaker Noah Baumbach isn’t exactly exploring new territory. But Frances Ha, his alternately beguiling and bruising comedy, makes you fall in love with the idea again. It’s impossible not to fall hard for Greta Gerwig, who wrote the script with Baumbach and plays Frances with such smart, rumpled radiance that you bask in her glow. With a deceptively light touch, Baumbach and Gerwig stir the muddy waters of money, class, sex, love, friendship and the pain of betrayal. You don’t expect a tantalizing sweetheart of a movie to touch a raw nerve. This one does. Shooting in resplendent black and white, cinematographer Sam Levy recalls the French New Wave and Woody Allen’s Manhattan.”
—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Director Noah Baumbach
Writers Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Actors Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner and Adam Driver
Producers Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Noah Baumbach, Lila Yacoub, Rodrigo Teixeira
Cinematography Sam Levy
Studio IFC