Hannah Takes the Stairs
2007 Directed by Joe Swanberg
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Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
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I cannot relate to people my age.
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Some say mumblecore. I call it whisperpunk. Either way, I had to turn the volume on my TV almost all the way up to hear a single goddamn thing in HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS.
I’ve enjoyed the mumblecore movies I’ve seen in the past. The Duplass brothers and Lynn Shelton have made some really good, really interesting and really funny films. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS is often regarded as some sort of mumblecore classic. To me, it was one of the worst of the bunch.
Greta Gerwig was good in the lead role, and I can see how this served as a breakthrough film for her as an actress. As for the rest of the movie, eh, it was boring.…
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I feel I must apologize for mye reviews becoming increasingly meaningless. Feeling a bit bogged down by the pressure to reach 100....
Anyways; Hannah[...] is good for almost entirely one reason, and that is Greta Gerwig. Immense performance. The script is a bit too "blah, blah", but hey, this is mumblecore. As a person Gerwig's Hannah is an all to familiar man-eater, who in the prosess ends up feeling sorry for her self. Not too much for me to empathize with. I've got your solution btw, Hannah: stop picking bland, borderline ugly guys.....just sayin'. -
Superindie. The plot has no sense at all. Superweird.
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The mumblecore movement in cinema has had notable ups, a few downs, but has so far been pretty consistent in my book. One of the films elevating it to a level of supreme naturalistic cinema is Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs, a raw and potent look at the title character and how she floats through life from points A to B, living in post-college hell.
Hannah is played by Greta Gerwig; a woman of considerable screen presence who is only elevated by a charming array of supporting characters. During the first act of the film, she is dating Mike (fellow mumblecore filmmaker Mark Duplass), a listless louse whose impulsive decisions make him the worst kind of boyfriend. When he…
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An incredibly honest appraisal of this generation. That we might not like what we see should not preclude engagement with it.
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I really do like the mumblecore genre. That is to say, movies that focus on real conversation between the characters. This one, however, did not strike my fancy. Maybe I lack a female perspective, or maybe it is because I've seen several films of the genre that trump this one. At any rate, I do believe it is worth watching.
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I like the idea of the style, but the execution is lost on me. It's a bit too lax. A bit too loose.
This was my first Swanberg, except his segment in V/H/S. I'm hopeful for future films like Nights and Weekends, which I will be watching soon. -
More like a behind-the-scenes shoot than a film. It's too self-absorbed and, proves that there is a vast difference between being minimalist and just plain lazy.
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Some say mumblecore. I call it whisperpunk. Either way, I had to turn the volume on my TV almost all the way up to hear a single goddamn thing in HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS.
I’ve enjoyed the mumblecore movies I’ve seen in the past. The Duplass brothers and Lynn Shelton have made some really good, really interesting and really funny films. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS is often regarded as some sort of mumblecore classic. To me, it was one of the worst of the bunch.
Greta Gerwig was good in the lead role, and I can see how this served as a breakthrough film for her as an actress. As for the rest of the movie, eh, it was boring.…
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I cannot relate to people my age.
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I feel I must apologize for mye reviews becoming increasingly meaningless. Feeling a bit bogged down by the pressure to reach 100....
Anyways; Hannah[...] is good for almost entirely one reason, and that is Greta Gerwig. Immense performance. The script is a bit too "blah, blah", but hey, this is mumblecore. As a person Gerwig's Hannah is an all to familiar man-eater, who in the prosess ends up feeling sorry for her self. Not too much for me to empathize with. I've got your solution btw, Hannah: stop picking bland, borderline ugly guys.....just sayin'. -
Superindie. The plot has no sense at all. Superweird.
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The mumblecore movement in cinema has had notable ups, a few downs, but has so far been pretty consistent in my book. One of the films elevating it to a level of supreme naturalistic cinema is Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs, a raw and potent look at the title character and how she floats through life from points A to B, living in post-college hell.
Hannah is played by Greta Gerwig; a woman of considerable screen presence who is only elevated by a charming array of supporting characters. During the first act of the film, she is dating Mike (fellow mumblecore filmmaker Mark Duplass), a listless louse whose impulsive decisions make him the worst kind of boyfriend. When he…
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The mumblecore movement in cinema has had notable ups, a few downs, but has so far been pretty consistent in my book. One of the films elevating it to a level of supreme naturalistic cinema is Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs, a raw and potent look at the title character and how she floats through life from points A to B, living in post-college hell.
Hannah is played by Greta Gerwig; a woman of considerable screen presence who is only elevated by a charming array of supporting characters. During the first act of the film, she is dating Mike (fellow mumblecore filmmaker Mark Duplass), a listless louse whose impulsive decisions make him the worst kind of boyfriend. When he…