Trailer: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach Team Up Again With ‘Mistress America’
For fans of: Greta Gerwig running through city streets with a gangly lack of self-awareness.
In an industry that likes films to either be aggressively upbeat or the celluloid embodiment of ennui, movies like 2012’s Frances Ha sit firmly in the middle, exposing the awkward realities of life through the lens of humour.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach seem to understand this better than most screenwriters and directors out there: just because you decide to throw caution to the wind and take a spontaneous two day trip to Paris, it doesn’t mean you’re going to get an epiphany about life. And just because you want to follow a particular career path, doesn’t mean everything is going to work out and end on a musical montage.
But at the same time, life isn’t all or nothing. It takes weird turns; another truth the pair will explore in their latest collaboration Mistress America.
Again set in New York, the film follows Brooke (Gerwig) as she takes her younger soon-to-be-stepsister on a tour through the city, and through her own chaotic life. In just two and a half minutes, the trailer takes us from psychics to stalking to cat-napping.
The film screened at Sundance in January where it won good reviews in The Guardian, Indiewire and Variety — so I guess the only question that remains is: how soon can you take my money?
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Mistress America comes out in the USA on August 14; a local release is TBA.