Mistress America

2015 "From Strangers to Sisters."
6.7| 1h24m| R| en
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Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.

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ThiefHott Too much of everything
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Simone Navarotti Overall I liked this movie. There are moments that just genuinely surprised me, and in a movie world full of tiresome cliches that's always a really really good thing. I think the casting was done well. I was surprised to see the blonde actress playing the lead. I don't even know her name, and I'm not going to Google it. But I've seen her in smaller roles and she was much less entertaining. This was a good role for her, she did really well in it. The problem with the acting was that it was very turn-taking. "I'll say this this now it's your turn to act." At many points the acting seemed more like a script reading than actual acting. Didn't care for the beginning scenes and set up of the movie. It felt rushed and chaotic. Some of the scenes seemed as if they had been shot with a low-end camcorder (specifically dorm scenes). It's not a life-changing film at all. Slight moral lesson included, which always adds value to film. Entertaining.
benibn Confusing is the word. You can't see a red tread through the movie, but I like the "company of the young Yorkers".
Andres-Camara This is a movie in which just starting the film, only with the presentation of their characters, I am already saturated with them. The two protagonists saturate me. I do not get any kind of affinity with them. They seem simple to me, empty and to top it all I do not see that they pursue anything.It's a movie in which the minutes pass and I can only think, but where is this going? I can not make sense of anything. Everything is happy, happy and we arrived at the end of the movie.To top it all I seem to be watching a TV movie on a Sunday at three thirty To top it off I do not like any technical section except the costumes. It really leaves me so cold that I can not think of more to say about it.
Larry Silverstein Over the years, I've liked some of Noah Baumbach's films, but not others, and this one I'm sorry to say was disappointing. Here, Baumbach directed and co-wrote the script with Greta Gerwig.The underrated and most talented Gerwig also stars in the movie as Brooke, a free spirit who's leading a whirlwind of a life, with a myriad of part-time jobs but looking to close a deal on a new restaurant, in the Williamsburg section of NYC.Lola Kirke co-stars here and gives a fine performance as Tracy, a first year college student at Barnard, aspiring to be a writer but having loads of problems fitting in on campus. Brooke and Tracy are slated to be step sisters when Brooke's father and Tracy's mother marry in the near future.Thus, when Tracy, at the urging of her mother, calls Brooke and they meet for the first time in Manhattan, Tracy finds herself willingly caught up in the cyclone of Brooke's life. Tracy even finds herself using Brooke as inspiration for her short story that she submits to the prestigious Mobius Literary Society at her college.All of this seems well and good, but for me the problem with the movie is in the dialogue, which often came across to me as mostly pretentious, whiny, and even mean-spirited at times. Thus, the characters that emerged were so shallow and self-absorbed that I mostly lost interest in what would happen to any of them. When that happens to me as I view a film, I start checking the time wondering when it will be finally over.Overall, Gerwig and Kirke are solid here, with many actors in supporting roles adding much as well. However, as mentioned the occasional clever or humorous line was overshadowed by dialogue that came across to me as affected and pretentious, leading to surfacy and shallow characters.