'Mistress America' And The Millennial Search For Meaning

'Mistress America' And The Millennial Search For Meaning Mistress America is a deceptive little film. Based on the trailer, you might expect a fairly pat story in which a young college student idolizes a zany, glamorous older sister type only for her (and for the audience) to realize that this creature is much sadder than she is glamorous. Mistress America takes your assumptions and spins them out into a sharp, observational comedy (critics are fond of making comparisons to Woody Allen’s work) on female relationships, hero worship and how our platonic crushes on those we see as “more” than we are help to inform our own search for identity and meaning.