Lady Bird - DVD

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.

Hilarious and truthful, this film is bound to illicit various emotions all throughout. Great acting, cinematography, and choice of music. Loved the ending, too. Fantastic movie.

The acting is top-notch, the direction and writing is brilliant, and it all comes together in a sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, sometimes poignant teenage coming of age story led magnificently by Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. This is Greta Gerwig at her best.

If you are looking for perfection in a coming of age film, look no further. This film is beautiful, hilarious, heartbreaking, and nostalgic all in the most wonderful ways of those words. It manages to take a simple act ( a young lady graduating high school and heading to college) and turn it into a meaningful glimpse at young life and reflection on the relationships we form or force to form and how they affect our lives and spirit. I can’t say enough good things about this film. Great Gerwig has managed to make her first act into her masterpiece. It truly is a phenomenal film which should remain timeless and inspire many future generations to not be afaraid to take the little things of life and turn them into big meaningful artistic endeavors.

('Lady Bird') In the neat and charismatic household of the MacPhersons there are ancient traditions which intrude into the reigning dynasty of casual culture. Christine(Saoirse [pr.surshah] Ronan), or Lady Bird, as she likes to be called, is disciplined by her mother about her messy room. Lady Bird's mother(Laurie Metcalf) scolds: "Some of your friend's fathers could employ your father-and they're not going to do it if it looks like your family is trash."As we go through various social and intramural segments of Lady Bird's school and drama-theater curriculum, Lady Bird courses through a tunnel and we are witness to her various choices; although the tension mounts on some decisions tentatively, Lady Bird never travels outside the walls. Lady Bird(aka Christine) is a senior at a Sacramento high school. The elegant architecture, and wane sunlit grass plots of land look artful - add to this the theme of reckless rebellion, saturated with a matte gloss of spring colors, and 'Lady Bird' attains a class aura and intensity like many of the instrumentals that serenade the various frictions of communication.Like a diary that's different in writing alacrity when it defines favoured impressions, in 'Lady Bird' etchings discern themselves from trajectory scenes. Observations of teenage insensitivity and trends of the parents; of disparagement, love, then the unresponsiveness of each person to the declining reasonableness of the other. A revolution is brewing, of the attitudes of youth to their upbringings, but these new thinkers invoke high ideals amongst each other. The fantasy, and an absorbing one it is, in 'Lady Bird', is in the interactions. An argument becomes a fight, then over the edge the emotions go-but these faithless people just stare at one another-and so what? Just when you think the movie is about to become something less than what it promises, the mood foists on to Saoirse(playing Lady Bird), and the scene turns, pensive or foreboding, in her pirouette of defining articulations. Irish Catholic traditions are sanguine and begrudging, but it's love when it really counts. Not all the story lines are tied-up consummately, in the end, but 'Lady Bird' is a work of art.The piano piece for the end credits, 'Lady Bird-Ending Credit' composed by Jon Brion is a gorgeous instrumental.

Hermosa película, el artículo llego en perfectas condiciones,