@deanduncan63Saw Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig’s #FrancesHa. Observations about how much it owes to the French New Wave are very apt …
… There’s been some impatience w’ that, too. We oughta remember how wildly referential, how full of ardent & even genuflecting …
… quotation the New Wave itself could be!
#FrancesHa. Derivative works, when attentively & openly derived from great substance, ought not to be simply dismissed. Rather …
… we oughta consider the course of kind encouragement. And/or, be grateful for the tip as we go back to consult the source.
#FrancesHa. I, personally, have not always appreciated what I take to be Baumbach’s misanthropic propensities …
… or the dreadful places they’ve sometimes taken him. And us. Is Gerwig the difference here? This film is pointed …
… and it doesn’t exactly flinch. But it’s sweet!
#FrancesHa. The Sacramento section! I assume that some of these filmmakers don’t subscribe to its values …
… Congratulations then, & even gratitude, for choosing to render them so respectfully. On that subject, here’s M. Balzac …
… w’ very sophisticated, skeptical, & powerfully affirmative tale of a good disbelievers faithfulness: http://bit.ly/1MbDVap