Living in New York City, especially now in 2014, is an enormously expensive enterprise.

Between food, rent and MTA fares--you know, the bare necessities--you're lucky if you get to experience the real luxuries of life in Gotham: fine dining, finer digs and a brand new car all your own.

But what Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha explores, more than all these realities perhaps, is what truly matters in life: real connection with other human beings.

Which is why we fall in love with Greta Gerwig (co-writer with Baumbach), who plays a 27-year-old aspiring dancer from Sacramento named, yes, Frances trying to survive as an artist in New York City.

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