Lady Bird * * * *
As a writer and an actor (Greta that is, not me) I have followed Greta Gerwig for a while, and I really appreciate her individualism. With Lady Bird she has taken to directing which seems like a good move as everyone has gone nuts for this, her directorial debut.
Lady Bird is good and so is Saorsie Ronan (Brooklyn) in the lead role, but I would not call her performance a work of rare genius which is the language that some critics have been using.
It's a coming of age story with lots of funny and touching scenes. Some are quite surprising, some are obligatory and some are rather contrived. As a "coming of age story" on independent release I did not find it as touching (or as interesting) as The First Girl I Loved which seemed to be almost ignored in the Oscar buzz.
Lady Bird has a difficult relationship with her mother but a very good one with her father. The family are struggling. They are on the "wrong side of the track" literally. Then Dad loses his job. Her mother responds to stress with anger (some folks do that) and Lady Bird tends to cop it.
Lady Bird really doesn't know what to do with herself. She's feeling the pressure to get good marks to graduate, she's getting heaps of disapproval from her Mum and she's falling in love with the wrong boy(s).
It is made up of lots of cute, clever and funny scenes, which is typical of Greta Gerwig writing. I must say, in the midst of all this it's interesting how she has turned the pariah of today (Catholic Schools) into a charming and fun school with some very amusing and endearing characters.
The rumor has it that it's going to clean up at the Oscars. I hope it does. If Greta Gerwig doesn't deserve an Oscar for this alone, she certainly does for all the other great work she has done, of which a few are reviewed in this little blog.
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It's a coming of age story with lots of funny and touching scenes. Some are quite surprising, some are obligatory and some are rather contrived. As a "coming of age story" on independent release I did not find it as touching (or as interesting) as The First Girl I Loved which seemed to be almost ignored in the Oscar buzz.
Lady Bird has a difficult relationship with her mother but a very good one with her father. The family are struggling. They are on the "wrong side of the track" literally. Then Dad loses his job. Her mother responds to stress with anger (some folks do that) and Lady Bird tends to cop it.
Lady Bird really doesn't know what to do with herself. She's feeling the pressure to get good marks to graduate, she's getting heaps of disapproval from her Mum and she's falling in love with the wrong boy(s).
It is made up of lots of cute, clever and funny scenes, which is typical of Greta Gerwig writing. I must say, in the midst of all this it's interesting how she has turned the pariah of today (Catholic Schools) into a charming and fun school with some very amusing and endearing characters.
The rumor has it that it's going to clean up at the Oscars. I hope it does. If Greta Gerwig doesn't deserve an Oscar for this alone, she certainly does for all the other great work she has done, of which a few are reviewed in this little blog.
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