Noah Baumbach came up as a filmmaker during the early 90s
indie boom. His Kicking and Screaming
is not only a personal little love letter to life after liberal arts college
(Baumbach went to Vassar), but a wonderful addition to the stream of
interesting indie hits of that era. Since then he’s been sporadic in his
artistic success and has occasionally gone wider in scope and employed big
names like Jeff Daniels and Ben Stiller in his films. But with Frances Ha he triumphantly returns to
the creative fertile grounds of that 1990s indie style.
