Lady Bird
First screened in November 2017
Director: Greta Gerwig. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Jordan Rodrigues, Marielle Scott, Odeya Rush, Lois Smith, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jake McDorman. Screenplay: Greta Gerwig. Twitter Capsule:
Can you be shrewd and warm, happy and sad? I think you can. Lady Bird is. Appealingly complex, yet it's clear as a bell.
VOR:④
Palpably informed by female perspectives. Nails the easy-looking task of arranging short, seemingly random scenes in specific sequence. Hard-won humanism.
