Lady Bird [Blu-Ray] [Region Free] (English audio. English subtitles)

I love this movie! The lead actor is my favorite!And the director is the same woman who directed BARBIE! It’s a great coming of age drama!I highly recommend watching it! 😉

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My rating is more of a 3.5Thank you for readingLady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California, between the fall of 2002 and the summer of 2003, it is a coming-of-age story of a high school senior and her strained relationship with her mother.As someone that isn’t a huge fan of coming-of-age films I was pleasantly surprised by how easy this one is to enjoy; the simplicity of the plot compliments the tone embraced by Gerwig’s directing style, and is one that most - if not all audience members - can easily relate to without strain or an inflated sense of imagination.There’s nothing new about the plot of this film when you start stipping the meat off of it: Daughter despises parents. Daughter is in her senior year of high school. Daughter has aspirations that **happen** to physically separate her from the environment she is currently in. Regardless, ‘Lady Bird’ grounds itself through characters that are authentically flawed and unapologetically jagged; the awkward manner in which Christine explores her identity and comes to terms with her reality is wholesomely transparent and ultimately feels natural. if one accepts this as an average coming-of-age film then it's easy to watch without much criticism; however, what I expected this movie to be and what it ended up turning into are seemingly separate entities from one another. The trailer and description sell this film as having the relationship between ‘Lady Bird’ and her mom at the center, but it would be fair to call this false advertising.For one, there is a never-ending integration of pressures that Christine is dealing with that act as points of contention in this film such as trying to get into college, dealing with some amount of peer pressure, exploring the expectations (sometimes sexual) of intimate relationships…….I think you get the point. This is certainly a responsible and respectful representation of the totality of this experience of being on the edge of Independence with so much still left to learn, but this makes the relationship she has with her mom seem like a part of her life that is easily forgotten about or ignored. At the end of the day, it is just particularly hard to discern how much of an influence this relationship with her mom has on the decisions the primary character ultimately makes.Secondly, the interactions that ‘Lady Bird’ has with her mom are seemingly normal in the grand scheme of things. At times they get into little verbal spats and say things that aren't so nice to one another, but I can't say I've always been a little angel when speaking to my own parents or that they haven't ever said anything to me that was particularly rude. I can only wish that I had sensed a little more of the tension that is meant to be between them through the use of even the tiniest gestures - like eyes widening or inexplicable flinching - And I imagine other audience members will feel the same.Regardless, the melodramatic nature of the dialogue adds a certain amount of character to this story that is unexpected and delightful. On one hand, a majority of the conversations sound like ones we have had in our own households or are one we can imagine having with our own friends and acquaintances. This is paired with lines that seem unbelievably scripted and yet they are remarkably clever and wonderfully original. Fans of zippy one-liners and quick-witted humor alike will find the experience of watching ‘Lady Bird’ as being both entertaining and worthwhile.If I was to rate this movie based on how close or how accurately it reflects its description it would easily be a 3; My shamelessly biased opinion of Chalamet (I think he’s just naturally alluring. He’s hard not to like!) And appreciation of the performances put on by Ronin and Metcalf bump it up to a 3.5.Won’t blow your mind by any means but is well worth your while:I would recommend!

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Love being able to access classics!! Was a great movie super easy to purchase though Amazon!! Highly recommend!

This film is basically a sympathetic look at a girl's coming of age experience while attending a modern Catholic school. She has a troubled relationship with her overbearing mother, she acts out a bit, shop lifts, has anti-climatic sex with some dumb guy, and manages to get into a university across the country.None of the characters are particularly well thought out; the actors were competent, but the writing was so mediocre that they couldn't rise above. Overweight Julie pops in and out of her life in a lame attempt to illustrate the faithful but abandoned friend who gets redemption in the end. She was an interesting character but we never really got to understand what makes her tick, or what Lady Bird loved about her, or what she loved about Lady Bird.The rich girl that Lady Bird befriends during her rebel phase is initially presented as a kind of Mean Girls rich anti-hero type, wearing the obligatory overly-short skirt to show her rebellious/don't-care attitude, yet she surprisingly and uncharacteristically comes out with some moralistic preachings "I don't like liars" and "I don't care what kind of house you live in". Then she fades into the background when her role as rebel/temptress is no longer required to advance the plot.The Catholic school is depicted quite sympathetically; the nuns & teachers and priests all come across as real people, kind, generous, and understanding. Not quite the experience of many Catholic grads I have spoken with, but okay, maybe it's genuine, I can't say. The Catholic services were beautiful and compelling. This movie was written by a Catholic or at least someone who greatly sympathizes with Catholic society. It's actually refreshing, given the amount of bashing that Catholicism has gotten in recent decades.The mother-daughter relationship is the centerpiece of the story, yet never really gets fully fleshed out. The mom is a psychiatric nurse working double shifts to pay the bills, guilt tripping her daughter ("do you have any idea how much you cost us?") and putting her down in bizarre and rather cruel ways ("you'll never have a job where you make that much money"). Overall the mom comes across as a borderline sociopath whose job is to hurt Lady Bird and put her down as much as possible, yet simultaneously uplift her with surprising and uncharacteristic moments of tenderness. As dad of a 15-year-old, I have some sympathy for the parents; the mother daughter relationship is indeed fraught, and fathers and daughters tend to get along quite well; it's real, not just a Hollywood stereotype. As in other films, though, it's all rather exaggerated for effect.Overall, a B- for effort. Saoirse Ronan is a decent actor who played the role bravely. At age 22, she manages to pull off a 17-year-old confused high school student well enough. One bit of revealed trivia: the intense lighting caused her face to break out in acne during production, and she persuaded the director not to cover it up. Many high school kids have acne, and look and move and talk awkwardly, not like the smooth, handsome 25-year-olds usually employed in Hollywood high school depictions, so kudos to Saoirse for at least trying to put some realism back into an otherwise rather plastic and stereotypical effort.There is potential for this to have been a great film; they could have more thoroughly explored the tensions between Catholic society and mainstream society, especially given the film's setting in California. They could have gone more deeply into the mysterious personal issues of the drama teacher, a sympathetic character who disappears halfway through the movie. They could have been a bit more realistic with the wealth gap; Lady Bird's parents were not wealthy people, and Lady Bird is ashamed of their poverty, we are repeatedly told, yet their house looked huge from the outside, certainly not a working class structure from the "other side of the tracks". A missed opportunity in my opinion, but still some nice moments and they managed to avoid the excesses of nudity, profanity, and violence that seem to beset most coming of age films these days.

Greta Gerwig's first true masterpiece, put her and Saoirse Ronan on the map and in my opinion the film I would have picked to win Best Picture 2017. The behind the scenes featurette is also wholesome!

Eine junge Frau will ihren Platz im Leben finden. Ihr Leben hat sich 17 Jahre lang in Sacramento abgespielt. Nun will sie da raus. Jetzt. Und weil jetzt nicht geht und damit alles zu lange dauert, rebelliert sie gegen alles und jeden und bei ihrem Namen fängt es an. Sie heißt Christine. Aber sie besteht verbissen darauf, "Lady Bird" genannt zu werden. Sie will raus aus der Stadt im mittleren Kalifornien (an der Westküste scheint San Francisco der einzig akzeptable Ort zu sein). Die Ostküste soll es sein, und natürlich soll es eine Elite-Uni werden. Allerdings ist das illusorisch. Ihre Noten sind gut, aber nicht so gut, dass es für solch eine Uni reicht. Zudem müsste sie so gut sein, dass sie ein Stipendium bekommen könnte, denn ihr Vater verliert gerade seinen Job und ihre Mutter versucht mit Doppelschichten als Krankenschwester, genug Geld zusammenbekommen zu können.Das Geld. Lady Bird würde so gern in einer wohlhabenden Familie und deren Haus wohnen. Ihr erster Versuch lässt sich prima an. Die Großmutter ihres ersten Freundes bewohnt ihr Traumhaus, aber ihr Freund trägt seine eigene Last und kann ihren Erwartungen nicht gerecht werden. Ihr zweiter Freund ist smart und blasiert, nahezu des Lebens überdrüssig, aber er hat alles, was das Leben so hergeben kann. Auch dies wird sich als Zwischenetappe erweisen, genauso wie die gesamte Clique, die sich am finanziell gut gestellten Ende des Schulskala gesammelt hat.Ihre Mutter kämpft auf ihrer finanziellen Seite um die Existenz der Familie und sie kämpft um den Zugang zu ihrer Tochter, einem Papa-Kind. Kunststück, der würde alles für seine Tochter tun, leider reichen seine Mittel dafür nicht. Ständig kracht es zwischen Mutter und Tochter. Sie finden nicht die richtigen Worte und Lösungen für die Wünsche und die Mittel, die Lady Bird einsetzt, um ihren Willen durchzusetzen.Alles ist blöd. Alles ist langweilig. Sie will nicht länger bieder sein. Sie will Status. Sie will da raus.Das ist natürlich kein neues Setting für einen Film, doch hier wird es sehr gekonnt und vor allen Dingen sehr lebendig umgesetzt. Die Schauspieler liefern eine großartige Leistung. Der Film kann sich sehr gut sehen lassen.

Film simpatico, come si usa nel cinema d'oggi. Un gioiellino.Attrice favolosa, madre come non si vedeva da Gente comune. Se avete amato Timothee in Chiamami col tuo nome amatelo cosi' e non come lo stronzetto che e' in questo film. Con Chiamami col tuo nome e Tre manifesti ad Ebbing Missouri una tripletta da favola, avrebbero meritato molti Oscar in piu'. Orgoglioso di averlo. Lo consiglio caldamente a chi ha figli/e neo diciottenni. Ascoltateli ed amateli. Amazon come sempre puntuale. Film assolutamente da avere.

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