Ha ha, Ha

He’s either a chameleon or a literate, but only half-talented, filmmaker in desperate search of his own voice. Noah Baumbach has made his Ben Stiller film, the Reality Bites-esque post-college slacker mediation movie Kicking and Screaming, his John Cassavetes film—the perfunctory melodrama Margot at the Wedding—and his Wes Anderson film—the delightfully dark and funny The Squid and the Whale, which remains his crowning achievement.

Now, Baumbach has decided to make his own mumble core movie, with the Miss Mumble Core herself, Greta Gerwig, who stars in and has co-written the black-and-white, New York-set relationship drama Frances Ha, in limited release May 17. Gerwig was the one bright spot in Baumbach’s overly dour Stiller-starring drama Greenberg, and it is clear she and the director have a great creative chemistry.

With the appearance of co-star Adam Driver and a script laden with witty asides, the film also appears to be an early ode to Lena Dunham’s HBO hit Girls. While we wait on an official first trailer for the much-anticipated indie, this yoga-riffic clip will have to do: