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"  Noah Baumbach and his collaborator in both work and lurrrrve, Greta Gerwig, are a\u00A0formidable double act. They co-wrote, he directed and she starred in his acclaimed 2013 comedy drama Frances Ha, and they\u2019ve teamed up in the same roles for this month\u2019s Mistress America.  In some ways it covers similar ground: Gerwig plays Brooke, a\u00A0kooky twentysomething New Yorker whose joie de vivre is as infectious as her bank account is near to empty. This time, we see her through the eyes of a young admirer, Tracy (Lola Kirke, sister of Girls star Jemima), a college student whose mother is due to marry Brooke\u2019s father and who finds herself in need of a friend in the big city.  Brooke provides the inspiration Tracy is looking for \u2014 a generational switch-up of the dynamic in Baumbach\u2019s excellent last film, While We\u2019re Young (2014) \u2014 so much so that she starts cannibalising Brooke\u2019s life in a short story from which the film takes its title.  There\u2019s a sneaking guilt when watching a Baumbach film that maybe you should be\u00A0watching movies with more important concerns; the malaise of privileged youngish people doesn\u2019t matter in the grand scheme of things. But then they\u2019re so much fun. Mistress America is a whistle-stop romp that combines gentle philosophical questioning with quick-fire badinage (that you might not totally get but sounds neat, such as: \u201CMarrying Mamie-Claire is like buying a\u00A0cashmere sweater from Old Navy\u201D).  While Frances Ha nodded to Fran\u00E7ois Truffaut and the French New Wave, Mistress goes for John Hughes and Eighties coming-of-age flicks (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Toto are on the soundtrack) and like, say, The Breakfast Club (1985), manages to be both witty and wistful.  It\u2019s ironic that a film about stymied ambition is made by a highly productive director whose last film came out just five\u00A0months ago. And given that he\u2019s also got the\u00A0self-discipline to bring it in at under 90 minutes, you know you\u2019ve got a mind whose understanding of his protagonists\u2019 concerns is, these days at least, largely academic.  Mistress America is out on 14 August "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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