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Greta Gerwig at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Sunset Tower, West Hollywood, California on February 24, 2013.

There are 27-year-olds who have their shit together, but I wasn't one of them. If you were, you may watch Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha as a sort of anthropological study: the still-questing twentysomething, running into pitfalls and learning that expectation goes hand-in-hand with entitlement, and neither are in sync with reality very often.

There was little question in 2008 of what image belonged on the Chronicle cover of the March 7 issue which previewed that year's South by Southwest Film Festival: Greta Gerwig .

There's a moment in Frances Ha when a young woman tells Greta Gerwig's 27-year-old Frances that she has the face of someone older than that.

IN "FRANCES HA," Greta Gerwig creates a character who's heir to the tradition of Annie Hall or Mary Richards.

You can hardly blame Noah Baumbach for wanting to build a cinematic shrine to his girlfriend Greta Gerwig.