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Pathway's new office is located at 800 West Cesar Chavez Street in Austin, Texas, between Lady Bird Lake and downtown Austin, and next to the recently opened Austin Public Central Library.

And a big part of why I wanted to see it a second time — and see it with you — was because of the scenes between Lady Bird and her mother.

The clip's opening sequence captures the film's quirky take on family drama, with an argument between Lady Bird and Marion over college ending with the latter hurling herself out of the moving car.

Set in Sacramento, California (Gerwig's hometown), the story focuses on the fraught relationship between Lady Bird (a.k.a. Christine — played by Saoirse Ronan) and her overworked mother Marion -LRB-

Although dramatically flat, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut covers its Mumblecore tracks with jabs of humor and a breeze of earthy authenticity.Set in Sacramento, California (Gerwig's hometown), the story focuses on the fraught relationship between Lady Bird (a.k.a. Christine — played by Saoirse Ronan) and her overworked mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), whose emotions run hot or cold.

The original title for Lady Bird was Mothers and Daughters, and the arguments between Lady Bird and her mother are furious and heartbreaking.

Her parents (played by Tracy Letts and Laurie Metcalf) are struggling financially, but her dad is supportive of her plans to go to school on the East Coast, but her mother (Metcalf is dynamite in this role) is vehemently against this idea and it adds tension to an already strained relationship between Lady Bird and her mother.

This famous vertical lift bridge above the Sacramento River is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city, and it proves a worthy backdrop to a pivotal scene between Lady Bird and her best

There is no other Gunther's on the planet, with its «Jugglin» Joe» neon sign from 1949; no other rose garden anywhere filled with Gerwig's memories; and no Tower Bridge lookalike that could have been a more stunning backdrop for a momentous coming - of - age conversation between Lady Bird and her best friend Julie (played by newcomer Beanie Feldstein, now starring opposite Bette Midler in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!).

On the evening in October 2016 when the movie crew shot the innocent frolic between Lady Bird and Danny in the McKinley Park rose garden, the one where the lovebirds waltz through the rose bushes and name a star in the sky to commemorate their new romance, Gerwig's friends and family gathered to watch, including her brother and sister - in - law, who live in Land Park, Mickiewicz's sister and nieces, and Trafton, who said of the experience, «We were in the present, seeing a story inspired by the past, and witnessing something incredible about Greta's future.

Like many mother - daughter relationships, the one between Lady Bird and Marion functions by means of a well - oiled push - pull system.

What really elevates the film is its depiction of the relationship between Lady Bird and her mother, Marion, played by Laurie Metcalf.

(Guess what happens between Lady Bird and Danny.)

This feels like a fight between Lady Bird and The Shape of Water.

Not exact matches

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In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

A sweet, deeply personal portrayal of female adolescence that's more attuned to the bonds between best girlfriends than casual flings with boys, writer - director Greta Gerwig's beautiful Lady Bird flutters with the attractively loose rhythms of youth.

Save her stubborn, overworked mother, Christine has trained all of her friends and family to call her Lady Bird, a sobriquet that straddles the line between dignity and cutesy appeal.

Though many of the mundane and enduring conflicts that erupt between mother and daughter are rooted in financial distress, the family's struggles become manifest in more subtle and devastating ways: Lady Bird's mother works a double on her 18th birthday, and her father, Larry (Tracy Letts), has to go back on expensive pills to treat depression because he's just lost his job.

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is an uncommonly nuanced and intelligent film about the volatile relationships between teenage girls and their mothers, and it begins with a brash, borderline - surreal expression of frustration.

Ronan, who seems to grow into her lanky frame over the course of the film, nails the sense that Lady Bird's life is a tendentious war between her ego and increasing sense of the world around her, while Metcalf masters Marion's inability to erase her frustration at her inability to be selfish or impulsive.

They seldom mention the difficult personal past between them, but it is probably as interesting as that tumultuous mother and daughter relationship in «Lady Bird» (2017).

There's a subplot involving Lady Bird's closeted boyfriend Danny (a terrific Lucas Hedges) who's torn between his identity and family, which is devastating.

In the Best Picture category, it's looking like things are boiling down to a showdown between «The Post» and «Lady Bird.»

The most resonant roles for women centered on the sometimes loving, frequently fraught relationships between mother and daughter as displayed in such films as «The Florida Project» (where the roles were played by Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Kimberly Prince); «Marjorie Prime» (Lois Smith and Geena Davis); «The Big Sick» (Holly Hunter and Zoe Kazan); and «Lady Bird» (Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan).

Lady Bird is a heartfelt and very funny story about a young woman trapped in that seemingly never - ending moment between immaturity and maturity.

The story of a teenaged girl named Christine - who insists on being called «Lady Bird» - is a constant little battle between her ego and her sentimentality.

In between Roseanne and an upcoming episode of the CW's Supergirl — which she is guest - starring in so her youngest child can meet her idol Melissa Benoist — Metcalf is girding herself for what is sure to be a whirlwind of Oscar - season press and events to talk about Lady Bird.

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.

This is a common trait with Lady Bird, where the shots compliment the dialogue into making it more than just a scene between two characters.

As virtually everyone predicted, the top honors went to McDormand and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards, Gary Oldman (who peaked in Bram Stoker's Dracula next to Winona «Inclusion» Ryder) for Darkest Hour and Allison Janney for I, Tonya — though, as nearly everybody agreed, it was sheer agony having to choose between Janney and Laurie Metcalf, so brilliant in Lady Bird.

Best Picture (Drama) seems like a showdown between The Shape of Water and The Post, while Lady Bird and Get Out are the frontrunners in the comedy category.

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.

Saoirse Ronan's Lady Bird finds herself caught somewhere between being the kid her parents want her to be — accepting an ordinary life in Sacramento — and chasing an inner whirlwind of big dreams of big places, of people who pursue and achieve different things.

Saoirse Ronan Winning Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: What initially felt like it would be a tight race between McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) has become, essentially, a coin toss between McDormand and Lady Bird's Ronan.

The scenes between her and Lady Bird are the film's strongest, and the brief glimpses into her professional life (she is seen counseling a priest and a teacher at Lady Bird's school who suffers from depression) are intriguing.

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, this brilliant drama portrays the humor and pathos in the turbulent but loving bond between a mother and her teenage daughter, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, and sharply observes the relationships and beliefs that shape and define us.

Edelstein's Top 10 also features «Call Me by Your Name,» «Lady Bird,» «Get Out,» «Faces Places,» «Marjorie Prime,» a tie between the documentaries «Last Men in Aleppo» and «Nowhere to Hide,» the oft - maligned «Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,» «BPM» and «Phantom Thread.»

Later on in the film Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) talks about driving for the first time herself, and the connection between the mother and daughter and their love for each other and for the place they live in is revealed to us.

If you listen to the experts, this is a two - horse race between legit Oscar best - picture contenders Lady Bird and Get Out.

Kaufman: Laurie, your movie explores the relationship between you and your daughter, which almost all of these films really do, but especially «Lady Bird.»

I would say its between that movie, Shape of Water and Lady Bird.

In the meantime, Lady Bird's enduring the more pressing challenges of amateur high school plays and ramshackle romances, pivoting between ill - advised romances with the good - natured Danny (Lucas Hedges) and chic rocker Kyle (Timothée Chalamet, a world apart from the gay teen in «Call Me By Your Name»).

«Lady Bird,» Greta Gerwig's delightful semi-autobiographical look at the relationship between an equally headstrong mother and daughter set over the course of the latter's senior year in high school, was named the winner of the Chicago Film Critics Association's award for the Best Picture of 2017 in a ceremony held tonight.

As it is with the highs and lows of teenage life, Lady Bird features incredible scenes of catharsis and anguish that vacillate extremely between humor and heartache, yet work so completely.

A film of tenderness and wit, Lady Bird astutely captures the nature of the internecine warfare that habitually exists between girls in late adolescence and their mothers.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who watched Lady Bird and found myself veering back and forth between wanting to scream at her character and wanting to give her a hug.

Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» portrays a tempestuous relationship between a Sacramento high School student (Saoirse Ronan, left) and her mother (Laurie Metcalf).

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, in the umbrage of post-9 / 11 America and the uneasy economy that came with it, Lady Bird limns the often bitter bonds between break loose seventeen - year - old Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) and her strenuous mother, Marion (Laurie Metcalf).

There was a practical connection between «Lady Bird» and «Moonlight,» in that both movies share A24 as a distributor.