When I first watched Mistress America last spring, I found it really annoying and pretentious… I believe I described it as “up its own ass”, when discussing it with my good friend Marcy (A.K.A. Bob), who had worked on the coloring of the film with director Noah Baumbach. “Really? I thought it was super funny.”, was her reply. She encouraged me to give it a second chance. Of course, she was right. Apparently I had watched it at a time when my “irony gene” was temporarily disabled.

Miss Gerwig, who co-wrote Mistress with  boyfriend Baumbach, was deliciously goofy and self-deprecating, in that New York manner of faux-confidence. My favorite line: “There’s no cheating when you’re 18—you should all be touching each other all the time.”

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