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Frances Ha

Unbelievably great film, go and see it in a cinema while it’s still on in case you haven’t seen it yet. It emulates the aesthetic of Woody Allen’s Manhattan and it’s a modern homage to living in New York. Like Manhattan it's best to watch it on a big screen.

It’s so brilliantly fast paced that you’re almost breathless when you watch it for the first time. The self-deprecating humour is brilliant. It’s also realistic in that so many of our struggles today focus on finding and paying for a roof over our heads.

The film has a real sweetness about it because it gives friendship the attention that our second strongest bonds in life deserve. Friendships are after all not that different from love relationships in that growing emotional distance between you and your best friend is painful when you really hoped that the silliness of it would go on and on.

It’s also a film about finding your own way and trying again and again and not giving up and finally succeeding.