21 Perfect Galentine’s Day Movies

Screengrab via IFC Films.

Frances Ha

This modern love story is an incredibly rare one, because while it features all the key elements of a traditional romantic tale, our love birds aren’t actually in a romantic relationship: they’re two female best friends. As the title suggests, we mainly follow Frances, a twenty-something woman with a kinda viable dream living a sort of unstable but mostly typical young adult life. She’s a dancer in New York City, or she wants to be. She lives with her best friend, until they don’t anymore. And she struggles constantly against her own optimistic tendencies, her chronic undateability, and her admirable but ultimately unsustainable lack of self-consciousness.

While she may not be capable of holding down a job or staying in an apartment for very long, she is loyal, she full of love, and her devotion to the things that matter to her transcends practicality in the scattered but genuine life we watch her try to put together.

Best lady moment: Frances interrupts a dinner party to monologue about her ideal partnership, the things she wants out of her relationships, and in doing so, perfectly encapsulates the sheer magic and heartbreaking intimacy of female friendship. I watched this clip and cried about it mere moments before hosting my Friendsgiving this year. It’s that good.