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Lady Bird

2017 Directed by Greta Gerwig

The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.

Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Tracy Letts Lucas Hedges Timothée Chalamet Beanie Feldstein Stephen Henderson Lois Smith Odeya Rush Kathryn Newton Danielle Macdonald Laura Marano John Karna Andy Buckley Jordan Rodrigues Kristen Cloke Jake McDorman Ben Konigsberg Bayne Gibby Roman Arabia Marielle Scott Georgia Leva Monique Edwards Janet Song

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 19

yessssssssssSSSS

film festivals are fun because sometimes you get a heads up that a lot of people are about to have a new favorite movie. this is one of those times.

beyond being hilarious, unflinchingly honest, and performed to perfection, Gerwig's debut is just so, *so* smart about growing up, leaving home, reconciling teenage flippancy with parental gratitude, how class infects self-identity, and the enduring power of a certain Dave Matthews Band song. also, Tracy Letts drops one of the greatest, most understated f-bombs in film history.

a movie that audiences should be discovering and holding onto for a long time to come… hopefully it fares better than THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN.
Review by Grant Conversano ★★★★½ 4

"I'm sorry I wanted more" these words from Greta Gerwig's directorial debut have left me haunted me and sleepless. Exactly one year after the world premiere of "Moonlight", I find myself in the Chuck Jones Theater at Telluride, alone in room full of legends.

Barry Jenkins takes the stage to introduces "Lady Bird" and he tells the story of when he first met Greta, he was broke on the festival circuit in 2008 with his first feature "Medicine for Melancholy". He was in South America, hanging out with the UNCSA alumni Aaron Katz, two young hunger directors in every sense of the word, and here comes Greta with a bag full of pesos the festival gave her. So she took…
Review by Tay 4

not to be overdramatic or hyperbolic but everything i've ever written and everything i ever will write is an effort to get closer to being able to articulate the story of my heart of hearts, which inevitably will be about:

*a mother/daughter relationship
*catholicism
*it's gonna be a bildungsroman we already know this

so what i'm trying to say is greta gerwig reached into my soul to give me everything i've ever wanted. thank you
Review by Jaime Rebanal ★★★★★ 11

It's probably just my own love of Greta Gerwig that's taking me in, but I never expected Lady Bird to be a captivating experience in the manner in which it was. The whole night after watching Lady Bird, to say the least, I was in shock because I never expected something to play out to become nearly as resonant as it was - it wasn't just simply funny anymore. But to see that Greta Gerwig managed to touch me in such a manner right on what was her directorial debut effort, I think the safest thing for me to say is that I'm already going to love what her output will present within the future. I was left thinking, perhaps…
Review by charlotte

miss gerwig took the “wig” part of her name too literally
Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 1

oh it's so goddamn special and good i'm walking on air

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everyONE ON LETTER BOXD GETTING mE HYPED FOR THIS MOVIEEEE333
Review by JammyDD ★★★★ 2

Watched a lot of films at TIFF17. Expect a lot of reviews coming in the next couple of days.

'Lady Bird' was really good coming of age story. Saoirse Ronan was fantastic in this, it was funny, it was real and it was of course very well-written by Greta Gerwig.
Review by jonathana11 ★★★★

Greta gerwig cane truly write and saorise ronan was amazin and beautiful. Also timothee was in it and he is bae af
Review by Julie ★★★★

Thoughts from TIFF filmfixations.blog/2017/09/23/lady-bird/
Review by Bode Sulaiman ★★★★½

Gerwig takes his talents behind the camera for the first time (solo) and weaves a hilarious, observant and deeply touching portrait of female adolescence/mother-daughter relationships in the early-2000s. Ronan and Metcalf rule.

Think of it as a grittier (of sorts) EDGE OF SEVENTEEN. I can only hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as that flick going forward (theatrically at least).
Review by Tristan French ★★★★½

TIFF 2017 - Film #12

Within the last few years, Greta Gerwig has proved herself to be one of the most talented actresses and screenwriters working in the industry today. She now finally has her chance to shine with her directorial debut; LADY BIRD, a phenomenal and very relatable coming of age dramedy with lots of personality. Soarise Ronan knocks it out of the park with a fantastic performance as the title character, a teenage girl finding her way during senior year of high school.

You're going to be hearing a lot about this movie when it's released in November.
Review by Megan Hamilton ★★★★½

The idea of an origin story is an inherently captivating one, and fans of Greta Gerwig are probably aware of her love/hate relationship with the depicted city of Sacramento and her eventual need to oust herself to the east coast. Lady Bird magnifies Gerwig’s fraught ties to the city and elaborates on a much deeper, underlying connection with it and with the people who helped to shape the microcosm that is the dreaded final year of high school.

It’s hard to imagine a direct correlation between Gerwig as we all know and love her and the precocious and unbelievably talented young Irish woman who is Saoirse Ronan. But somehow this leap in the film is never an issue. Ronan portrays…
Review by Andrew Jupin ★★★½

Great performances from Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lois Smith, and Tracy Letts. Not a bad lead directorial effort from Greta Gerwig—she co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg in 2008—but not amazing. Awesome soundtrack too, especially the use of Reel Big Fish's "Snoop Dog Baby."
Review by bobosfilms ★★★★★

This movie blew me away. I can hardly describe how much I love it but I really do. The writing is just amazing - it's so genuine, but funny, but heartfelt. Same goes for the characters- especially Lady Bird played by the beautiful Saoirse Ronan. It had kind of a "Little Miss Sunshine" vibe to it, and it really struck a personal chord with me. The music, the fast pace, the 2002 setting - this is exactly the kind of film that I would love to make one day.