Lady Bird

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08/28/2023 A coming-of-age teen dramedy, from the POV of a sub-upper-middle-class Catholic white millennial from California—so I could plenty empathize, and I do appreciate Greta Gerwig representing our generation on the screen, but those intersectionalities mean the conflicts can only be so much, that they're all of a nature of which they'll sort themselves out with the passing of time, and so many dramatic scenes based on them come off as melodramatic performances from the temporality of a teenager (when there's so time & again a dipping POV following the mother, who should be wiser). All that said, the writing is a quite competent Hollywood 3-act screenplay, with plenty of chuckle-inducing lines, multiple tear-rendering deliveries of monologue-y lines, and a rollicking story to fill a feature-length. Watching in 2023 a film from 2017 set in 2002-03 is uncanny, but this is a worthy addition to the canon for the 21st-century's progression of what John Hughes could muster in the '80s, and the hipster touches (e.g. the Joan Didion epigraph the local band) and depictions of life for an adolescent in the '00s stirred in me that romantic yearning for a simpler time of pre-cynic enjoyment of social living. A full dose of emotional content to invest one's bit of time into. See more Laila S @lailasoliman Jan 10 This is a really great movie. I liked it a lot. Amazing coming-of-age film. I would definitely rewatch it! See more Yuri B @RyuBlack Jan 3 Surprisingly great film... Laurie Metcalf was phenomenal... she's criminally underrated as a serious actress. See more Cory Nov 25 wonderful take on a struggling relationship between a narcissistic mother who doesn't want her daughter to succeed in life because she didn't herself and a wishful, optimistic daughter who wants a better life but who still loves and cares for her family, showing they really do care about each other near the end of the movie. See more Atticus D Sep 20 This movie is quite possibly the best possible coming of age film. Maybe I'm biased, I am a freshman in college, but the plot of finding yourself at the end of high school, of conflict with your parents, and of realizing how much of an asshole you are and trying to fix it is timeless. In addition to a script that encapsulates so much of what makes going to high school as the member of a small class both great and hellish, excellent performances by Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf make an excellent script into an excellent film. See more Mackenzie L Sep 7 I tried to watch this film when I was about 19 but I didn't give it a good chance at the time. 3 years later, I tried again and I wish I just watched it the first time around. This has got to be my new favourite film! Gerwig's intentional use of colour theory and semiotics is extremely effective, a true masterpiece for those girls who grew up unafraid to have an opinion, feeling like an outsider, battling the rest of the world single-handedly. I cried several times throughout the film due to how close-to-home several of the themes felt to me. Saoirse Ronan did an excellently convincing job playing her role as Lady Bird. For me personally, everything about this film is perfect, and it is exactly what I needed to see at this moment in my life. Thank you Greta Gerwig <3 See more Read all reviews

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