Lady Bird - DVD

I LOVED this movie. If you want a feel-good movie done by incredible actors, give this one a try. I have probably watched it 10 times. The characters are so well developed, and the story is beautiful

The performances are rich and engaging. I can watch Ms. Ronan in anything. Her initial musical audition is classic. The cinematographer achieves an ambitious palette, the sort all too often ignored in indy work, which is unfairly considered light on a cinema-level, perhaps because there are few explosions to admire. The look according to helmer Greta Gerwig mimics the fabric of memory -- now that is ambition I admire -- with a washed-off, remote, nonetheless color-saturated texture influenced by period specific "fanzines" pressed-off at Kinko's in those sweet days. It was also nice to see Sacremento photographed with love for a change, in a way that suggests all life does not die outside of NYC and LA, the problem of entirely too many films. These extra touches make the piece shine. Still, in watching it, with the realization that "The Breakfast Club" has now been collected by the Criterion Collection, (good for them for understanding film; even Eric Rohmer's "Pauline at the Beach" is merely a beach tale. I could not help but consider how a work, such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (consider the slowed-down art museum sequence) would have been a Best Picture / Director nominee today, now that American film is starting to better understand cinema. This, too, seems doubly the case when one considers Cameron's meltdown in the John Hughes work. Even "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Lucas" wear well with age, especially now that multiplexes are dominated by the inane. This film is great. Do not get me wrong. And while standing beside those earlier giants alone bodes well. But I cannot give it a mere four stars for not living up to prior classics, or even the greater Gerwig-penned work, "Frances Ha," or "Miss America," both of which I adore - ADORE. I cannot take away a star, especially in today's film atmosphere, so saturated with spectacle over character. There is something intentionally minor about the work which could, at points, swing for the fences just a bit more, as in the sequence near the close of the film in which Lady Bird visits a church and re-adopts her name - on her terms. BRAVO.

I enjoyed this movie, im 21 and saw some similarities with my own life as a teenager. This is a story about a young teenager thats goes by Ladybird, shes trying to go through life, new experiences, trying to create independence for herself while her mother stills has the strings to pull emotional manipulative behavior over and over again on her daughter, and eventually her daughters behavior as a teen comes out in big growth steps for ladybird, but the way ladybird makes decisions is based off fantasy and idealization as well as the escapism of going to college in a big "wonderful" city and this mainly because her mother doesnt feel like home to her and doesn't give ladybird the support she needs. I think quite a lot of people were disappointed on how spot on this movie showed an abusive narcissistic relationship between the mother and daughter, where the mother is constantly passive-aggressive, manipulative, and emotionally abusive to her daughter. Now if you pay attention to these small details you'll realize why her mother is the way she is, and this is because the mother had an abusive alcoholic mother. Pay attention you will realize alcohol is very common and symbolic within this movie, you'll notice the daughter eventually drinks more as her mother becomes more like the abusive mother she had, passing it down to ladybird. Interesting enough I noticed many reviewers were disappointed in this movie because they said the teenager is "self-entitled, selfish, and disrespectful towards her mother, which is exactly what someone would say when they have normalized manipulative behavior which says something very clearly that the viewers side with an emotionally abusive mother, which blatantly shows how brainwashed people have become by their parents control issues and manipulative behavior masked as "warm" and they just "cares deeply" you will notice these were words used by Lady bird to save her emotionally manipulative mother at times because she is "soft" at the times when it only meets her emotional needs and not ladybirds needs from a motherly figure. Ladybird has no other natural way to be in her situation then exactly the way she is in this movie, in fact is was beautifully spot on. If you think that the mother's behavior towards her daughter and her husband is acceptable well to break it to you, you had narcissistic manipulative a parent/parents. I almost gave this 4 stars instead of 5 at first because of the way it ended, I "fantasized" for closure and an apology from the mother in person, but at the same time this movie is REALISTIC and there's much work to be done within the mother to heal and for the daughter to heal and for ladybird to set healthy boundaries with her mother with time and usually that doesnt just happen at 18 years old.

I am finally late in its viewing. I however have the musical CD in my car. Not sure my delay, but perhaps all the hype for many reasons. I like viewing with a critical lens while rooting for a hometown girl. This made me cry, laugh, and bring down memory lane. Some comments I would swear I wrote!!! I went to this school (name change), was in drama and plays, and a Sacramento girl who couldn’t wait to leave. 35 years later? I can’t wait to visit and perhaps move back. It’s a city with much history and yet it’s a city that many poke fun of. As an adult I’ve learned more about SacTown and all its glory. If you love tree varieties…google. I’m glad the catholic school experience was played the way it was for me. Yes there are hysterical nuns and priests. Mentors, Pretentious, Rebellious, Fabulous Friends, Critical Mothers, all in the name of a stellar education? This movie has it all. Thank you!! Well done. I called my Mom immediately after I watched. She too recently wrote me a letter. Wild! Watch this. You won’t be disappointed and you might learn a thing or two in the complexity of people.

Film molto bello sul rapporto madre e figlia e sulla crescita personale.

I bought this as a used product and it came in great condition, the dvd works well. It's also one of my favourite films.

Einer der besten Filme über das Erwachsen werden. Dazu kommt noch ein feiner Blick auf das Mutter-Tochter Verhältnis. Der größte Trumpf von Lady Bird dabei ist der Charme der Figuren und natürlich das Schauspiel. Aber auch die Feinheiten stimmen, von den Dialogen, über das Drehbuch, Kamera, bis hin zum sehr guten Soundtrack, gibt es wenig was bei diesem Film nicht deutlich besser gelungen ist, als bei vielen anderen. Einige Szenen sind überraschend für den Zuschauer und den ganzen Film über, gelingt es die Geschichte mit einem Augenzwinkern und einem unaufdringlichen, feinen Humor zu erzählen. Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein um nur einige zu nennen, bieten ein tolles Schauspiel und sind mitverantwortlich, für die zahlreichen Preise und 5 Oscar Nominierungen. Es wird natürlich wieder einige Leute geben die genau diesen Film absolut langweilig finden, zu wenig Sex, keine Gewalt, keine Toten und auch keine Verfolgungsjagden. Was die Erzählung einer Geschichte betrifft, welche noch dazu universell ausfällt, gibt es nur wenige Filme die es schaffen so unaufgeregt und charmant zu unterhalten. Greta Celeste Gerwig ist mit Ihrer ersten Regie und Ihrem 7ten Drehbuch einiges gelungen, was den meisten Regisseuren in vielen Jahrzehnten nicht gelingt. Sie hat eine Geschichte erzählt die sich auf eine ganz leise und unaufdringliche Weise, in die Herzen der Zuschauer schleicht. Das dieser Film auch kommerziell so erfolgreich war, finde ich klasse, nach wie vor gibt es auch für gute Filme ein Publikum.

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