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In the rapidly evolving millennial age, it's good to know some life experiences are still universal, at least according to Noah Baumbach's energetic new comedy Mistress America.
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Fox Searchlight has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy Mistress America, starring Greta Gerwig and newcomer Lola Kirke and directed by Oscar - nominated helmer Noah Baumbach.
This week the team wobble off the rails with Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow's femme - slob rom - com Trainwreck; have the run of New York with an also - ran in Noah Baumbach's comedy Mistress America; see the thin blue line blurred in cop corruption documentary Precinct Seven Five; and watch Guy Ritchie take The Man from UNCLE for a spin and bring it back broken
While she wasn't offered that part her chance to collaborate with Baumbach finally came a decade later in the shape of screwball comedy Mistress America.
The narrator of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, a key influence on Noah Baumbach's blissful mad comedy Mistress America, muses that Holly Golightly is «a lopsided romantic.»
Not exact matches
Sundance Review: Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's «Mistress America» is an Endearing Screwball Comedy
The Meyerowitzes all speak with the wit and observational detail that one might expect from the screenwriter of such whip - smart comedies as Mistress America and Kicking and Screaming.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy «Mistress America,» directed by Baumbach and cowritten by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig.
In addition to his new and comparatively glitzy Ben Stiller comedy, While We're Young, the filmmaker has also made Mistress America.
Mistress America (R for profanity and sexual references) Buddy comedy, set in New York City, about a lonely college freshman (Lola Kirke) shaken out of the doldrums by her relatively - adventurous, soon - to - be stepsister (Greta Gerwig).
Though director Noah Baumbach's MISTRESS AMERICA (the title referring to a show one of the protagonists wants to create) isn't technically a superhero, I say star - producer - co-writer Greta Gerwig is saving the screwball comedy with her astute takes on interesting characters.
The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.
Gerwig has become an indie comedy staple, with her turns in films like «Greenburg,» «Frances Ha» and, my favorite, «Mistress America.»
Sometimes, it's just a simple overlap in theme, subject matter, or setting — the way, for example, that a screwball comedy like Mistress America can faintly resemble an earnest melodrama like Ten Thousand Saints, if only by virtue of both being about surrogate siblings.
Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.
• Mistress America - The latest divisive comedy from Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig.
Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.
The Squid and the Whale filmmaker Noah Baumbach's doubled down in 2015 with two delightful, different, yet not dissimilar comedies, While We're Young and Mistress America.
The 1986 comedy «Ruthless People» opens with Stone having lunch with his mistress Carol (Anita Morris), as he details his plans to murder his heiress wife Barbara (Bette Midler) later that evening.
But dim wattage is not the stuff of entertaining, antic comedy, which is what Mistress America strives to be.
Baumbach and Gerwig have both noted in interviews that Mistress America is in part inspired by those 1980s comedies — like Something Wild and After Hours — in which a preppy square falls under the spell of an outrageous bon vivant.
Mistress America continues to play up Gerwig's gift for physical comedy, and the plot, which whisks Brooke and Tracy to Connecticut in search of startup money, gives the second half a screwball zaniness unmatched in Baumbach's work since Mr. Jealousy.
Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.
When Brooke goes in search of $ 75,000 from a rich ex-boyfriend whose heart she broke - and brings along a make - shift entourage of Tracy and her friends - «Mistress America» goes from a light comedy to farce, but it makes the transition smoothly.
If Francis Ha was Baumbach's ode to French New Wave and While We're Young his comment on hipster culture, Mistress America feels somewhat like the 80s throwback to the comedy of manners revival of films from the 30s.
«Mistress America,» Noah Baumbach's new comedy - drama about two future step - sisters forming a bond as one helps pull the other out of her loneliness, has a new trailer.
How Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Turned «Mistress America» Into a Female - Friendly Screwball Comedy
A college freshman (Lola Kirke / Tracy) in New York gets a crash course in city life when she befriends her glamorous stepsister - to - be in «Mistress America,» a contemporary screwball comedy from filmmakers Noah Baumbach and G...
This Friday, Fox Searchlight opens enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.
But what separates «Mistress America» from Baumbach's other witty and sharp observational works about (what some people see as) White People Problems, is a madcap screwball comedy energy and a nostalgic, all - things - are - possible «80s sheen (bolstered by a fantastic dreamy synth score by Dean & Britta).
Mistress America is a sharply written, expertly crafted, and perfectly paced comedy that has the funniest and possibly most relatable dialogue and story this year has seen.
Is Verhoeven making fun of American revenge thrillers, or is he setting his satirical sights on the run of the mill «wives and mistresses, never shall they meet» French comedy?
A new comedy called MISTRESS AMERICA was written by its leading actress and its director, Noah Baumbach.
Or, maybe Mistress America is just a very good and funny comedy, balancing light and dark with a deft touch and welcome perspective.
The film is exceptionally written — every line of dialogue sounds like something a person might actually say and, as someone who was a high school senior in 2002, it felt so authentic that I thought I was watching a documentary about my generation's coming - of - age instead of a comedy - drama from the co-writer of Frances Ha and Mistress America.
Gerwig's a DIY - generation star who co-wrote (with director Noah Baumbach) and starred in the coming - of - age comedy «Frances Ha,» and has now co-written (also with boyfriend Baumbach) «Mistress America.»
Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach conceived «Mistress America» as a tribute to the screwball comedies of old, giving the movie a manic, theatrical fizz - characters running in and out of frame, dialogue coming in volleys.
A screwball comedy about female friendship and intellectual - property theft (well, not quite, but we'll get to that), Mistress America breathlessly tags along as Brooke makes wild gesticulations and snappy pronouncements, by way of mentoring the decade - younger Tracy Fishko (Lola Kirke), a shy suburbanite newly installed in the freshman dorms at Barnard.
But then, while we Americans might poo - poo this sort of thing, dallying with mistresses and Lotharios seems to go down just non-judgmentally fine in France, especially in their comedies.
Baumbach «s earlier film from this year, While We're Young got generational comedy all wrong; Gerwig may just be his lucky charm because Mistress America gets it all right.
Baumbach's 2015 slate has been marked by an infectious exuberance, and though While We're Young was an enjoyable generational comedy, Mistress America has a resonance that makes it timeless.
The difference between a good screwball comedy and a great one is that you care about the screwballs, and in that sense, Mistress America is great indeed.
It's reminiscent of Hughes» mix of comedy and drama (not to mention introspectiveness) without being derivative, though Mistress America tilts more heavily towards the comedic side.
Dave Hickey was onto something when he called her «a fountain of youth and good humor that has never run dry,» «the absolute mistress of high physical comedy,» and «Keith Haring with a domestic life and a Ph.D..»