Sentences with phrase «gerwig plays»

Gerwig plays Lola, a 29 - year - old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Joel Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding.

Gerwig plays Lola,...

Gerwig plays a character that a 20 - something could easily find today, yet one seldom sees the traits she's portrays exhibited on the big screen.

Greta Gerwig plays love interest Naomi in the remake of the 1981 romantic comedy.

Gerwig plays the titular role in the film: a twenty - something woman living in New York whose ambition it is to become a dancer.

They followed that with Mistress America in 2015, which has a similar vibe: Gerwig plays Brooke, who has a million creative ideas and a very low strike rate.

Greta Gerwig plays the character who has been reprised from an earlier Solondz film, Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Greta Gerwig plays (and writes) her wonderfully.

Gerwig plays Frances, an apprentice for a prestigious dance company and a member in good standing of the transitional class of twentysomethings who toil through pricey college educations and unpaid internships only to come out with massive debts and impossible rent bills.

Greta Gerwig plays Brook to perfection.

Greta Gerwig plays a staunch idealist who helms a suicide - prevention organization and tries to elevate her classmates by setting a good example, and by teaching them to keep their spirits up through proper hygiene.

Greta Gerwig plays the eponymous Maggie, a college professor ready for motherhood.

Gerwig plays Brooke, a just - turned - 30 New Yorker who does «everything and nothing,» as her soon - to - be-stepsister Tracy (Lola Kirke) puts it.

Maggie's Plan (R for profanity and sexuality) Greta Gerwig plays the title character in this romantic comedy about a woman who has second thoughts about having a baby with a married professor (Ethan Hawke) three years after stealing him from his wife (Julianne Moore).

In Maggie's Plan, Greta Gerwig plays the titular character, a woman on the verge of artificially inseminating herself with the DNA of a former college acquaintance - turned - pickle - entrepreneur named Guy (played by Vikings «Travis Fimmel).

Greta Gerwig plays a close confidant and continues to show why she is one of the best screen actresses of her generation.

In the film, Gerwig plays Nancy Tuckerman, Jackie's right - hand Girl Friday, and friend.

In her latest, Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, Gerwig plays a single woman with hopes of becoming a mother, who attempts to impregnate herself via a friendly sperm donor.

Greta Gerwig plays Tracy Walker, an American exchange student who leads the protests against Kobayashi and the ban.

Greta Gerwig plays Maggie, a free - spirited neurotic character we've gotten used to seeing her play over the last few years (Lola Versus, Frances Ha, and Mistress America, to name a few).

Annette Bening and Greta Gerwig played an epic game of Family Feud on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday evening (December 5) in New York City.

Not exact matches

He began his career a mere decade ago, in his mid-twenties, with films in which he and his friends played characters based on himself and his friends (among them was Greta Gerwig, whose first major role was in his 2007 film «Hannah Takes the Stairs»).

Gerwig also continued to star in smaller movies, playing the title role in Lola Versus and reteaming with Baumbach for Frances Ha.

It reteams Baumbach with his partner and muse Greta Gerwig, who plays the impulsive stepsister - to - be of a shy Barnard freshman (rising star Lola Kirke).

Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.

Fortunately, Violet is played by indie film girl of the moment Greta Gerwig (pictured below, second from right), whose level gaze, swimmer's shoulders, and grave purposefulness help ground what could have been her character's stratospheric twee factor.

He wanted to Gerwig to play Abbie, Jamie's dyed - redhead guide to the world of spirit - of -»79 performance art and punk, because he's a huge Frances Ha fan «and she's one of the few modern actresses who you could believe actually listens to Suicide, Siouxisie and the Banshees and the Raincoats.»

Part of that ensemble will be Dawn Weiner, played this time by Greta Gerwig, as the film check in with the awkward 11 - year - old as an awkward, but more of a Greta Gerwig - awkward adult.

Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote with her director, plays the eponymous heroine, a 27 - year - old who passes through life with an exuberance that's obnoxious and disarming in equal measure.

The picture centers around the relationship between two soon - to - be sisters (or stepsisters for that matter), played by Lola Kirke and Greta Gerwig.

Greta Gerwig has played a variety of eccentric characters before to the point of making it a trademark feature for her.

Whether it's there or when Gerwig visits Sacramento for the holidays (her parents play themselves), the movie makes the subtly optimistic point that the life you build in youth is always available.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race - critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

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.

Gerwig will play Abbie, asophisticated photographer submersed in the punk culture of the era who is forced to return to her home town and ends up living with Dorothea and Jamie.

Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

Director: Pablo Larrain Cast: Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup, Peter Sarsgaard Certificate: 15 Watch Jackie online in the UK: Amazon Prime Video / iTunes / Amazon Instant Video / TalkTalk TV Store / Google Play

The main music moments involve Dave Matthews Band and Alanis Morissette, while Gerwig admitted in press that she advised Timothée Chalamet (who plays Ronan's boyfriend from hell) to behave like an obnoxious Pavement fan.

As previously noted in a Dazed feature praising Gerwig's filmic triumph: «Christine falls out with her best friend, she loses her virginity, and she discovers a passion for singing in school plays.

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.

The film tells the tale of college freshman Tracy (played by the resplendent Lola Kirke) who, feeling lonely and down in the dumps, calls up her future step - sister / whirling dervish of energy and business ideas Brooke (played by the transcendent Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote and produced this film) for a night on the town.

Whoever she plays, there's an essence of Gerwig that breaks through, intentional or otherwise.

As a performer, Gerwig is an original; she can play the swan, the ugly duckling, and sometimes both at once.

The title character is played by the lovely Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with Baumbach.

Film: Lady Bird Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Odeya Rush Oscar Nominations (5): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: Available for purchase on YouTube, iTunes and Google Play

Jesse Eisenberg and his girlfriend Greta Gerwig share time with her visiting friend played by Ellen Page.

«Thank you to my parents for watching the plays that I put on in the living room and thank you to my brother and sister for acting in them,» said Gerwig.

There was last month's Lady Bird (A24), Greta Gerwig's debut as a solo director, in which he plays a shaggy - haired guitar player so dreamy that star Saoirse Ronan's character puts her identity on hold to spend time in his orbit.

Frances (Gerwig) and her best friend / roommate Sophie (Sumner) seem to do everything together: dance around the park, smoke out the window, play backgammon, etc... When her boyfriend Dan (Esper) suggests she live with him, she can't seem to depart her Sophie.

Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.