Frances Ha (2012)

Film

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Form & technique

Black-and-white cinematography and editing style
Frances's running scene to David Bowie's "Modern Love"
The use of Georges Delerue's music from French New Wave films → Anempathetic Sound

Tropes

Frances's unstable career and financial situation
The intense, co-dependent friendship between Frances and Sophie → Homosocial Desire
Frances's constant moving between different apartments and boroughs → Cinematic Psychogeography
Frances's characterization as independent yet emotionally dependent → The Postfeminist Sensibility