Box Office: Smart, with a heart

04 September 2015 - 02:07
By Tymon Smith

The second Noah Baumbach film to reach South African audiences in the space of two months, Mistress America is one of the smartest, and most bitter-sweet, comedies of the year. In the 10 years since his breakout filmThe Squid and the Whale - about a dysfunctional middle-class family in New York - Baumbach has crafted a space for himself as the millennial successor to Woody Allen.

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