FRANCES, a somewhat disorganised second stringer in a struggling New York ballet company, shares a quirky sense of humour and an apartment with best friend Sophie in Frances Ham, at Harbour Lights Picturehouse this week.
When Sophie moves in with her boyfriend, Frances can’t cover the rent, and so begins an awkward odyssey of fleeting friendships and sofa-surfing during which her eccentricity and wellmeant pratfalls proliferate.
A lonely weekend in Paris proves a nadir for the self-confessed ‘undateable’ 28-year-old, from which the only way is up, albeit with wryly unpredictable consequences.
This moving, often toe-curlingly funny tale is shot in monochrome, which somehow lends this clever, wordy narrative added resonance.
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