Frances Ha

…Gerwig wrote the script for Frances Ha, which follows a dancer (played by Gerwig) in her late twenties living in New York City and trying to settle into adulthood. Shot in black and white, it was consciously indebted to the iconic films of the French New Wave.

…a telegrapher, and Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha. He was in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and in 2014 he played a lead role in the uncomfortable domestic drama Hungry Hearts and a charming if entitled hipster in Baumbach’s While We’re Young.

She and Baumbach wrote Frances Ha (2012), in which she starred, and they collaborated again on Mistress America (2015). By that time Gerwig and Baumbach were romantic partners as well. (They married in 2023.) In 2016 Gerwig played the first lady’s social secretary in Jackie and had a supporting…