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With its sensitive blend of humour and pathos, the coming - of - age film Lady Bird is an understated triumph of empathetic cinema.
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In Ann Vickers (1933), she plays a lady doctor who undergoes an illegal abortion, and in The Age of Innocence (1934), Dunne played the same role reprised by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1994 remake of that film.
Gerwig herself has been open about the many films that inspired «Lady Bird» — she even programmed an entire series at NYC's Quad Cinema featuring a dozen films that she says helped fuel her creativity — and it while the list is peppered with some surprises, there's at least one coming - of - age classic that seems obvious: Howard Deutch's «Pretty in Pink.»
In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).
Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.
Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»
Best Supporting Actress was awarded to Laurie Metcalf, as a working - class mother struggling to see eye - to - eye with her headstrong teenage daughter, in truthful coming - of - age film «Lady Bird.»
With a bold leading turn from Saoirse Ronan, and an internalized masterclass of a performance from the often underappreciated Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird is an honest comment on strained mother - daughter relationships, functioning as a sort - of companion piece to last year's best coming - of - age film, The Edge of Seventeen.
Lady Bird is every bit a charming coming of age film, with Saoirse Ronan as a young woman finding her own unique ways of dealing with issues every teenager encounters.
Joining the ranks of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Edge of Seventeen as a refreshing woman - centered coming - of - age film (and offering more depth than either), Lady Bird captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nostalgia that's not distracting: Clunky flip phones and «Cry Me a River» blend right in.
He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.
Lady Bird by Hope Madden Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, may be the most delightfully candid and refreshingly forgiving coming - of - age film I've seen.
As for «Lady Bird,» Nolan compared the experience of watching Gerwig's coming - of - age film to reliving a memory.
Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»
But to really understand just how much Frances Ha is hers as much as it is his, you have to see Gerwig's wonderful, uproarious new coming - of - age film, Lady Bird (Grade: A).
Lady Bird: An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California, in a film that excavates both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.
As shouted by a flurry of headlines, the wry, humane coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird — the solo directorial debut of actor Greta Gerwig — is no longer merely «well - regarded» or «critically acclaimed»: it is, officially, THE BEST REVIEWED FILM OF ALL TIME.
This tells us all about one of the film's leading ladies, from her arrival in Hollywood at age 14, breakthrough at age 15 (being passed off as 17), years of stardom at 20th Century Fox for Darryl Zanuck, and inevitable decline.
The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.
Some other notable films from female directors include the Telluride breakout «Lady Bird» by Greta Gerwig, a semi-autobiographical coming - of - age movie about women and female familial relationships; Brie Larson's magical realist directorial debut «Unicorn Store»; and «Battle of the Sexes,» a chronicling of the run - up to the landmark 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, directed by Valerie Faris and her husband, Jonathan Dayton.
Amazon's survey also found that among people who went to public school «The Breakfast Club» was the top recommendation, while those who went to private school picked «Lady Bird» as their No. 1 coming - of - age film.
As familiar as the coming - of - age comedy may seem, «Lady Bird» is filled with so many charming surprises and brilliant performances, most other films of its type feel even more mundane by comparison.
As Lady Bird continues to open in theaters across the nation this month, we'll see just how far beyond New York and L.A. the eagerness for this gentle, coming - of - age film extends.
Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.
Other top nominees include the coming - of - age film «Call Me By Your Name,» Greta Gerwig's directorial debut «Lady Bird» and Sean Baker's childhood odyssey «The Florida Project,» with three each.
Writer - director Greta Gerwig, right, with actress Saoirse Ronan on the set of the coming - of - age film «Lady Bird.»
In a sea of coming of age movies, Lady Bird stands out as a truly fantastic film.
But Telluride, and Venice before it, offers up so many great roles for women — so many brilliantly told films about real and imaginary women: a gay rising tennis star, a cleaning lady who falls in love with a monster, an aging movie star, a bratty teenager, a young Cambodian girl, and on and on it goes.
Greta Gerwig, whose very personal, coming - of - age debut film Lady Bird was hotly tipped, lives in New York but happened to be in LA for work.
As the film progresses, Lady Bird learns to appreciate the usual coming - of - age touchstones, like her critical but loving mother (Laurie Metcalf) and devoted but non-in-crowd friend (Beanie Feldstein), while also developing a fondness for her tree - lined, easygoing hometown.
Timothée Chalamet, for example — who plays Lady Bird's crush Kyle and is also Oscar - nominated this year for his role in another coming - of - age drama, Call Me By Your Name — was directed towards the films of Éric Rohmer and a collection of theoretical essays, The Internet Does Not Exist.
What makes Lady Bird such a stand out coming of age story is that the film is grounded in reality with several authentic moments where you know watching it that it came directly from Gerwig's own life.
Though Lady Bird is a coming - of - age story with familiar tropes such as prom night and a disappointing first sexual experience, it's really a film about teenage aspiration.
Before winning hearts and Oscar nominations with her coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig starred in the perfect companion film, about an aimless 27 - year - old who hops from New York City to her hometown of Sacramento to Paris to Poughkeepsie and eventually back to New York in hopes of stumbling into the perfect job, the perfect relationship, and the perfect life.
That acclaimed film is director Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age comedy called «Lady Bird,» which has a
My pick for the year's best movie is this coming - of - age film starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.
Starring Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird, along with the delightful and talented Laurie Metcalf as the teen's passive aggressive mum, the film is a coming of age story set in a Catholic school in Sacramento.
Fresh: The film is not so much a coming - of - age story... [it] aims for a deeper truth, being that life's most important lessons come incrementally, in small, touching moments, something Lady Bird comes to appreciate, however reluctantly.
Garden variety coming of age films are so prevalent that it's all the more refreshing when something truly personal and original like «Lady Bird» comes along.
Like the best coming - of - age films, in Lady Bird, what is far more essential than relating to the references is understanding that they do not exist for the sake of throwbacking - the language of so many nostalgia cash cows these days.
If it were up to me, however, I'd vote for Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age gem Lady Bird, my favourite film of the past year.
Just a few hours after receiving a standing ovation for one of his short film programs, Jenkins took the stage at the Chuck Jones Cinema for the world premiere of «Lady Bird,» the coming - of - age comedy that marks the solo directorial debut of veteran actress Greta Gerwig.
Like those films, Richard Loncraine's film centres on a middle - aged woman, «Lady» Sandra Abbott (Imelda Stanton), whose expectations of her husband's «golden years» of retirement shatter with the discovery that he has been cheating on her with her best friend.
Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age film «Lady Bird» also added 363 locations and placed 9th in its sixth weekend in theaters.
Speaking of A24's Lady Bird, the huge critical success (100 % on Rotten Tomatoes with 160 reviews), the coming of age film starring two - time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan now sits at $ 8.1 M after 22 days.
Lady Bird recalls coming - of - age films like Pretty in Pink or The Slums of Beverly Hills, in that it's about a teenage girl growing up with fewer advantages than their peers, who don't think twice about their limitless credit cards or the luxury cars they're entitled to own on their 16th birthday.
Unlike Lady Bird, the spunky, Sacramento - raised heroine of Greta Gerwig's critically lauded coming - of - age feature, the film's star, Saoirse Ronan, did not attend American high school.