From Lady Bird to Barbie by Greta Gerwig

Released in Italy in 2018, Lady Bird a film that airs today at 21.10 on La5. It received critical acclaim upon its release, to the point of receiving numerous Oscar nominations. Lady Bird it also represents the directorial debut of his put on stage Greta Gerwig, that for the first time he found himself directing a film without any co-directors.

Lady Bird, plot

Christine McPhersonSaoirse Ronan) is a teenager who lives in Sacramento and feels that the California town is close to her. His dream is to move to a major metropolis, perhaps the East Coast, and live a life of opportunity and writers. To emphasize this sense of alienation from the reality of the mystery, Christina decides to use the nickname Lady Bird, which in itself also carries a slight trace of snobbery. In her senior year of high school, realizing that she doesn’t have enough credits to apply to college, Lady Bird decides to join a drama club, which soon becomes an escape from her overprotective mother (Laurie Metcalfe

) and nostalgia for the recently fired father (Tracey Letts). In addition, this experience will allow her to finally live her years, stay attached to the present, among her first love relationships with the beautiful and the damned (Timothy Chalamet), school dances, and all the things he was always trying to get away from.

Acquaintance with Greta Gerwig

Today the name of Mr. Greta Gerwig it is also known to those who do not usually go to the cinema every week or are not avid moviegoers. That’s because Greta Gerwig is the director of one of the most talked about films not just of the moment, but of 2023. Barbie. movie with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling became a real mainstream phenomenon, and Greta Gerwig became the first female director to exceed a billion dollars at the box office, continuing to set record after record. However, the fame of the director has not always been at these heights, quite the contrary. Greta Gerwig made her debut as an actress in 2006 in the series Young American bodies

and continues to work in the performing arts as well as developing a passion for screenwriting. In 2008, he began directing for the first time with the film nights and weekends which he led with Joe Swamberg. However, the turning point came in 2010 when Greta Gerwig was chosen Noah Baumbach play with Ben Stiller in The wacky world of Greenberg. The bittersweet film becomes a turning point for Gerwig from both a working and sentimental point of view. In fact, this film begins a fruitful collaboration between Gerwig and Baumbach, which will then lead to the birth of a sentimental relationship that is still very strong. In 2012 he comes Francis Ha, the story of a New York dancer who is willing to make any sacrifice to make her dream come true. The film is directed by Noah Baumbach, but Greta Gerwig co-wrote and stars in the title role. This partnership is repeated in 2015 with the film Miss America, where Gerwig again plays the dual role of translator and screenwriter. Meanwhile, as we also read about the reconstruction done by Vanity Fair, Noah Baumbach divorces wife Jennifer Jason Leigh shortly after the birth of his son. However, we will have to wait until 2019 to see them together on the red carpet, holding hands. In 2020, they appear together again on the red carpet, in which case they would have met at the Oscars evening as “rivals”. Both films by Noah Baumbach marriage history, both are much discussed Small woman Greta Gerwig was actually nominated for Best Picture, although Gerwig was also accompanied by outrage from many viewers who complained that she wasn’t nominated for Best Director just because she’s a woman. Now, with Barbie, Not only has Greta Gerwig already received an Oscar nomination, as well as a well-deserved win, she has also switched places. After spending years writing partner made movies, if yes Barbie she became a co-author of a feature film, which, however, she shot herself.