Lady Bird (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Greta Gerwig
	Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 22.04.2018, Schauburg, English version with German subtitle
Synopsis: Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson (Ronan) is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She is bored, feels blocked in her emancipation in the Californian Sacramento and even worse in her Catholic high school. She longs for adventure and emancipation. She aims at applying to a university on the East coast.
Review: I am a big fan of Greta Gerwig since we met via Frances Ha. And I am today even more fan. In her writing and directing she manages to show quite common life scenes of the teenager with its full intensity: the importance given to the first partner and to the first time, the impression to be special, the will to be special, the wish to look like somebody else, etc. There are plenty of conflicts with her mother, with her father, with her best friend,with herself. Excellent writing work managing to make a common story so tense that I was stuck to the screen. The role of Lady Bird is therefore fascinating. It is easy either to see oneself or friends in the teenie times. With both the nostalgia for that time and the remorse. The great originality and amazing strength of the movie lies more in the acting than in the role itself. Saoirse Ronan manages to give intensity to her character and not only because of her intense eyes. Her gestures, her intonation, her visible conflicts. Excellent acting job!
Rating: 8 /10