“You’re not gonna get in a car with a guy that honks, are ya?”
Lady Bird - Illustration by Relly Coquia
Greta Gerwig directing ‘Lady Bird’ in her prom dress
- I want you to be the very best version of yourself you can be.
- What if this is the best version?
Lady Bird (2017), dir. Greta Gerwig
cosmictuesdays asked:
Lady Bird was exactly what it needed to be.
It’s just such a successful movie! Such an affecting, entertaining hour and a half!
“Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?“
Lady Bird (2017), dir. Greta Gerwig
Unexpected Themes In Things I Watched In 2017
Laura Dern in dramatic wigs
Armie Hammer worshipping a tiny brunette
The aqua 1960s
Purple Florida
People named Doug Jones
Taika Waititi inventing the buddy comedy
Kid protagonists I want to adopt immediately
Nosebleeds + Timothée Chalamet
Lovely chameleon Michael Stuhlbarg
Has there been an Awards Show Pic yet of Saoirse Ronan and Armie Hammer each laughingly kissing the cheek of Timothée Chalamet
Lady Bird begins with an epigraph, a Joan Didion quote about Sacramento, which proved perfectly suited as this movie hit me as hard and in the same way as Slouching Toward Bethlehem. It has that same deft portraiture of a particular place and time (the same place, the time 40 years on), that same extraordinary insight into people and what they do, that humor, that confession, that skillfulness in how it is told. Greta Gerwig has discovered how to film the way Joan Didion writes, and we are going to be so much wiser for it. It’s so strong, it’s so funny, it’s so perfectly crafted, it’s so GOOD.
I’m not sure when in the runtime I started crying at something in every scene, but I remember accepting that it was just going to be my life right now, vaguely hoping that my chair wasn’t shaking too obviously.
