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A review with brevity (if not wit)
The title “Lady Bird” refers to the chosen name (not the given name) of the titular character, a senior in high school played by Saoirse Ronan (an important distinction).
This is an excellent movie from first time solo writer/director (and actress) Greta Gerwig. You will rarely see a more patient, thoughtful, and subtly explored relationship between a mother and daughter on the big screen.
Gerwig makes very few concessions to the familiar, popular, or sentimental in this movie. This feels like a movie about real people, in a real place, suffering from problems that I and everyone else could relate to.
<Okay well there was nothing sentimentalized except for the unabashed and ongoing love for the Dave Matthews Band…sigh>
Parents and Mirrors
The movie Lady Bird centers on the relationship between the character Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) and her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf).
Christine chooses to go by the name “Lady Bird” because she has serious delusions of grandeur, massive ambitions (without possessing the…
