Frances Ha Page #5

Synopsis: Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Noah Baumbach
Production: IFC Films
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 47 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2012
86 min
£3,900,000
Website
5,204 Views


- The F is on the other side of the bridge, on

East Broadway. - You'll see a 99-cent store.

Okay. Yeah.

I should go.

Is that chick really

moving to Portland?

- Yeah.

- Before you go, do us another dance.

Okay-

[Laughing]

["Modern Love "]

I know when to go out...

or when to stay in.

Get things done.

[Shouts, Laughs]

I catch the paperboy

But things don't really change

I'm standing in the wind

But I never wave bye-bye

But I try

I try

- Never gonna fall for

- Modern love

[Shouting]

- What time you get in last night?

- Late. Like 1:
00.

Why didn't you come in

and say hi?

I'm sorry.

I thought you were asleep.

I wasn't asleep.

I heard you come in.

Then you knew

what time I got in?

I'm working on some sample skits

for Saturday Night Live.

A producer said I could probably

get a job writing for them.

- Cool.

- Such a lie.

- Guys, this is Nessa.

- [Benji] Hey.

Hello. I'm Frances.

Lev and I were gonna make

bacon-egg bagels. You want some?

Oh, no. Thanks, though.

I wanted to go to the Met...

and I have to deposit this check

and drop off my laundry.

A whole Sunday planned.

- [Lev] Ever ridden on a motorcycle?

- [Nessa] Once.

[Lev]

It's an '85 Honda Shadow VT700.

- Are you impressed?

- Very. Mm-hmm.

So why do you want

to live together?

Well, I met Benji

through my friend Sophie.

- Where is Sophie these days?

- Busy with work.

- Which Sophie?

- Sophie Levy.

Get out!

I f***ed her little brother.

Oh, you f***ed Thomas.

- Yeah.

- You f***ed who?

- How do you know her? - We went to college

together, and we're the same person.

- You're that Frances!

- But we have different hair.

That's what we say.

Yeah, I'm that Frances.

- She speaks so highly of you.

- Well, we're best friends.

She's been to my house

for Christmas three times.

- Why doesn't she go to her own house?

- She's Jewish.

- She was saying last week she loved you.

- You saw her last week?

- When did you f*** her brother? - Where

were you guys? - I met you last night.

- We were at that restaurant, Po.

- Who were you f***ing last week, Lev?

Is that a good restaurant?

Was she with -

Who was she with?

Me and Thomas and that guy

she dates, Patch.

- Double-date.

- And some girl. Lena?

- Lisa. C*nt.

- Who were you f***ing last week, Frances?

- I make love.

- Frances:
undateable.

- Aren't you a lot older than Sophie?

- No. We went to college together.

- Hmm. You seem older.

- I'm a couple months older.

Like, a lot older...

but less, like, grown up.

It's weird.

You have an older face.

But, like, you don't have

your sh*t together.

Nessa can't come from sex.

Only 69.

That's a crazy helmet.

Got to. Motorcycle law.

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Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach is an American independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale and is known for making dramatic comedies. more…

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