So yesterday afternoon Dave insisted we go to the movies so that I would (as Cheri Oteri used to say on Saturday Night Live,) "Simma down."
So we headed toward our little jewel of an art theater, the Enzian. The wildly successful and positively reviewed indie film, "Frances Ha"
is playing.
It's about a 20 something young woman who just can't seem to get her act together!
Frances lives in New York. She has no apartment. She pretty much lives with (messy) friends. She's an apprentice at a dance studio but not really a dancer. She doesn't actually get paid very often. She worries about her life but makes crazy decisions...liking flying to Paris for the weekend on a whim using a new credit card she'd just received in the mail.
Frances is endearing, silly, deep, hopeless and promising. And, at times, seems filled with joy. I, of course, thought she was totally not dealing with reality. I thought she needed an intervention.
But, on the other hand, Frances is life affirming and the movie made it clear that this is the current 20 something culture. And, in the end, she does kind of get her act together.
So it actually made me feel a little better.
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