Barbie (announced)
2019 Little Women
2017 Lady Bird
2008 Nights and Weekends
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017) prod. Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin; Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts; won Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy) Golden Globes 2018; nomination for Best Actress Oscar: Saoirse Ronan; 5 nominations
A pleasant domestic story, so in that sense not completely unlike Brooklyn, one difference being that Ronan does this one with a Californian accent, whereas in the other she drew on her genealogical background to play someone from Ireland. I didn't believe for more than a moment that she was 17 (she was about 22), but it didn't impede plausibility generally. This young lady has far to go. She won't win the Oscar because Frances McDormand and Sally Hawkins are in the queue ahead of her, but she may if she gets the right part later.
Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019) wr. Greta Gerwig, dp Yorick Le Saux, music Alexandre Desplat; Saiorse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell, Eliza Scanlen, Florence Pugh
Sentimental girly stuff. Saoirse Ronan is excellent as usual, and Laura Dern impresssed me by actually playing the role without any of her quirky mannerisms. Florence Pugh is in a different film, playing a 21C girl, and I'm surprised that people thought she was good. She's not even good-looking.
Gerwig takes the writing credit for buggering up the time sequence. She would have assumed that everyone knows the story well enough to make the necessary adjustments in their minds, and so can pretend to be an 'auteur' on this flimsy basis.
The time passed.
reviews | Garry Gillard | New: 12 March, 2020 | Now: 12 March, 2020