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For its smart, honest storytelling and strong performances (particularly from Ronan and Metcalf), the film suffers some significant pacing problems with it lurching between acts in an at times ungraceful manner, the aftershock of Gerwig finding her footing behind the camera.

Gerwig finds playful moments in every single scene but also lingers on those scenes long enough to highlight genuine anguish.

With her feature debut «Lady Bird» (A24), a semi-autobiographical story from her high school days in Sacramento starring Saoirse Ronan and the superb Laurie Metcalf as her mother, Gerwig finds herself in the Oscar race as writer and director.

I remain grateful that Baumbach and Gerwig found each other, and that they're bringing such a winning spirit to American comedy.

In the week that I meet Gerwig, the first allegations of sexual abuse have been made against Harvey Weinstein, and it was clear that Gerwig found the revelations upsetting and deeply shocking.

A Woody Allen fan, Gerwig found in Ronan an actor skilled at channeling a version of her younger self, as Allen has cast young actors like Jason Biggs and Jesse Eisenberg to channel young Woody.

Just as the respectable Oscar bait churned out by Harvey Weinstein's Miramax was financed by the less glamorous chillers and slashers of Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films, so too the slight pleasures of mumblecore cinema associated with the Duplass brothers, Lena Dunham and Great Gerwig find their ugly kid brother in a series of outré horror films that look back to the schlockier video rentals that must have punctuated these filmmakers» formative artsier viewings.

Taking a simple story of a woman angry at her husband's infidelity and throwing in some adventures with a young unmoored British man, Gerwig finds a character arc and runs with it, alternating funny, awkward, raw, and quirky as needed.

Not exact matches

I think Baumbach and Gerwig mean Brooke to be a life - affirming free spirit who can't find a place in our mercenary world.

Variety also praises the actress, writing, «Gerwig manages to just be, making her precisely the right young star to carry such a genial glimpse at a character who doesn't even seem to realize she's trying to find herself.»

By all rights I should have been repelled by this leisurely stroll with the privileged Ivy League set, but I found myself won over by «mumblecore» alumni Greta Gerwig, and the spectacularly kitschy doo - wop soundtrack.

In the case of Gerwig, what's particularly striking is her ability to find the unexpected, illuminating detail and her simultaneous sense of taste of proportion.

Though I didn't quite care for the situations their characters found themselves in, Kirke and Gerwig have an undeniable chemistry.

Playing a single mother in 1979, looking to find a way to parent her teenage son via a web of surrogates (including Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup), Bening gives some of the best scenes of her career when she's just reacting to people.

Julie Delpy and Greta Gerwig star in the pic, which tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund.

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut follows a teenage girl named Christine (aka Lady Bird) who is still finding her way in the world.

Under Greta Gerwig's astonishingly sure hand, the two give stunning performances as a daughter and mother who have a relationship that every woman I know found terrifyingly spot - on.

Now divorced, she lives with Jamie in a rambling old house with a makeshift family: boarders Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a 20 - something photographer recovering from cancer treatment, and agreeable handyman William (Billy Crudup); 17 - year - old neighbor Julie (Elle Fanning), who finds a haven in Dorothea's home — and with whom Jamie is hopelessly in love.

She copes with the stress of her first heartbreak, a high school play, losing a best friend and finding a new one, and struggling with college applications — and Gerwig captures the essence of being a teenager before cell phones became essential accessories.

As the aimless title character, Greta Gerwig finally finds purpose here as she runs, twirls and jetes down the street.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» the wise, warm story about a young woman finding and asserting herself while dealing with her conflicted feelings toward a mother she can never seem to please, then you know that Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, has a keen eye for detail.

Sam's friend Megan (Greta Gerwig) gives her a lift to the Ulman household, which they find way, way down at the end of a long, long road in the middle of a dark, dark forest.

The film follows Tracy (Lola Kirke), a college freshman who finds friendship and writing inspiration in her older stepsister - to - be, Brooke (Gerwig).

Yet Gerwig's writing consistently finds fresh angles, overturning conventions from a distinctive, singular perspective.

Of course host Jimmy Kimmel found time for plenty of jokes about Harvey Weinstein during his opening monologue, but elsewhere, some of the industry's biggest names made their allegiances evident, from the introduction of Best Actor by Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, Emma Stone singling out sole female Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig when announcing that award, and Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence taking the stage to announce that it was a new day before they presented the Best Actress award to McDormand.

In Lady Bird, Gerwig somehow found a new angle on the mother - daughter movie that doesn't shy away from each character's flaws but never makes either of them remotely monstrous.

With Gerwig, he's found whimsy.

It's tempting to read the film's further step in this gentler direction as a by - product of Baumbach and Gerwig's overlapping personal and professional relationships, and certainly Frances and Gerwig's respective backgrounds in dance and shared roots in Sacramento suggest there's a biographical angle to be found.

In a recent interview Gerwig perhaps reveals the relatively low bar she set for herself: «I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17 - year - old girls where the question is not, «Will she find the right guy» or «Will he find her?»

Gerwig's Abbie puts finality into the mix with her talk of treatments, while Elle «s Julie, though sexually active in the film, finds it boring and wants to do something with her life.

This is found out by American exchange student Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig) who leads a counter revolution to save the dogs and distribute the vaccines to all the good boys and girls.

Greta Gerwig, its most gifted actor, is now an Oscar - nominated director and screenwriter; Joe Swanberg remains prolific; the Duplass brothers have found success as producers and writers; Andrew Bujalski is still underappreciated.

But after «Greenberg,» Baumbach pivoted once more, finding a looseness and a joy, especially in his creative partnership with Greta Gerwig, that suggests a surprisingly upbeat acceptance of the consolations of growing older and the odd nobility of maybe not having everything figured out.

Oh, and one of Adam's co-workers (a hilariously manic Lake Bell) has a mega crush on him, and Emma's little sister (Olivia Thirlby) finds true love as does Emma's friend Patrice (Greta Gerwig from Greenberg), who falls for Adam's best friend.

Fans of the zany, Greta Gerwig - era Baumbach may not find the same charms in The Meyerowitz Stories.

The first act finds Frances (Gerwig) sitting on top of the world.

Meanwhile, you'll have wait until January 23 to find out if Gerwig can add «Oscar nominee» to her already impressive resume, or if the Academy gives her spot to Joe Wright or some bullshit.

In Lady Bird and before, Gerwig is drawn to dreamers: young women who believe they are destined for greatness, even when the audience finds plenty of cause to doubt that.

Just as Frances Halliday found her happy ending as a ballet choreographer, Gerwig is now fulfilling her destiny as one of the best writer - directors working today.

Lady Bird may not be Gerwig's semi-autobiographical tale, but it gives us a taste of what she finds fascinating.

Both find nuances Gerwig may have missed but wholly endorses.

The comic star of Frances Ha and Mistress America found the perfect avatar in Saoirse Ronan for her film's title rebel, in a story inspired by Gerwig's own Catholic - schoolgirl upbringing in Sacramento.

Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» starring Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Ser - Sha, as in Sersha, Sersha, Sersha) finds Gerwig going all semi-autobiographical mumblecore, as if that Godforsaken genre weren't already long dead gone.

It would have been great to see one of the female - directed efforts find purchase in the best feature category, though Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Maggie Betts («Novitiate») got some love as breakthrough directors, and Dee Rees» «Mudbound» is set for a special ensemble honor.

In a fabulous interview with Rolling Stone, Gerwig said «I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17 - year - old girls where the question is not, «Will she find the right guy» or «Will he find her?»

I like Gerwig but I find her kind of one note as an actress, I love her so much more as a director.

Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» becomes best - reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes, Disney finds its live - action «Mulan,» and «The Post» star Meryl Streep laments the lack of gender parity

I've always been somewhat bemused to discover that Gerwig is something of a divisive player in the mumblecore scene when I've found her nothing but charming and, well, hilarious.

«Terribly nervous» prior to the commencement of principal production, Gerwig quickly found herself at ease once the situation became real, as she found herself on set in the director's chair.

A female director — Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)-- and a black man — Jordan Peele (Get Out)-- find themselves breaking barriers in categories in which they are usually sidelined.