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Although the film is called\xa0Greta, Chloe Grace Moretz\u2019s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston after losing her beloved mother.\xa0 Frances is perhaps a little too nice and accommodating for her roommate Erica\u2019s (Maika Monroe) tastes to not get taken advantage of by the worst the Big Apple has to offer. That niceness comes into play when Frances finds a lost purse sitting on a seat in her subway car, prompting her to return it its rightful owner, a mature Parisian widow living in Brooklyn named Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert).\xa0 The two become friends, filling a niche in each other\u2019s lives, with Frances finding a surrogate for her mother in her time of grief, and Greta a surrogate daughter for the one that is no longer in her vicinity. Frances says she\u2019s like chewing gum \u2013 she tends to stick around \u2013 which is music to Greta\u2019s ears.\xa0 However, something feels amiss in the relationship that causes Frances to try to end it, and the less-than-stable Greta doesn\u2019t seem to be taking the separation well. Neil Jordan directs this off-kilter thriller.