When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.

Mountain Photographer - Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria (by Evgeni Dinev)
"If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."
2012 Flashback: This movie had me in tears. Sitting in an IMAX theater with the entire place to myself, grieving about the innocence & fragility of all species & the realization that they have no idea what we, our species, are doing to the planet & how the human species has put itself higher up on the tree of life than all these other beautiful forms. They are not “compliments” to our existence. They are our relatives, our not-so-distant cousins. We are all living within the same biosphere, existing & exploring our own inherent curiosity together…watch this film and support good science. We’re all born to be wild.

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