Sundance’s New Mistress

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Writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding and Greenberg) and his leading lady muse/cowriter Greta Gerwig team up again with a follow-up to their 2012 critically acclaimed collaboration, Frances Ha. Indie screwball comedy Mistress America premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Socially awkward college freshman and aspiring writer, Tracy (played by Lola Kirke) has a hard time adjusting to life on her own in New York City until her future sister-in-law Brooke (Gerwig) takes Tracy under her wing. Brooke is a dazzling, confident fast-talking whirlwind of a woman who seems to have NYC in the palm of her hand. It’s a character that the capable Gerwig plays with the whimsy of free jazz but also with a depth and grounded realness bubbling below the surface of Brooke’s curated carefree persona. The two women end up on a One Crazy Night style adventure in Connecticut where antics abound, but the humor is anchored by the well-developed characters at the heart of this story.

In theaters Aug. 14.

 

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