Lady Bird
Lady Bird
R | 03 November 2017 (USA)
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Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

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Console

best movie i've ever seen.

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Borserie

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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StyleSk8r

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Plustown

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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eberkerbatur

I watched all the Academy nominees' films and I need to win this award for me. I enjoyed every minute of it was a wonderful film, a great screenplay, excellent acting all very good players in the future. The film was quite realistic and it should be in a movie as if it was a real life I felt like I was living in a young girl I was fully aware of the years of puberty. If I were a member who voted in the academy, I gave it to the best movie award for the lady bird. I would like to thank everyone who has passed the test in this film I enjoyed it very much

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peteregreen

Admittedly watched streamed from Apple TV to an OLED TV in summer evening conditions so not benefiting from a windowless well equipped cinema but the underexposed scenes severely affected the viewing enjoyment of what was otherwise a very good film. I know that OLED has limited brightness but after a futile reaching for the picture settings I began to suspect what I was seeing was actually intentional. I was interested therefore to read the Filmmaker article interview with DP Sam Levy and find some scenes were intentionally underexposed by as much as two and a half stops and read about all the attention to giving the film a certain 2003 look. This is all very well but if you are constantly trying to make out actors in murky scenes and having to rely on speech I think it all looses the plot!

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thesmythley

I first learned about this film from a cinema booklet. It was advertised as though it would be focused solely on the dysfunctional relationship between mother and daughter, which would have a sprinkling of nuanced tragi-comic humour.Instead it is another "coming of age" story. This means that you get the same tired old formulas: a male friend who turns out to be struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality, an obnoxious boyfriend and a "Ladybird" (the vainglorious main character) who is a typical misfit that tries desperately to appear important by having sex and almost going to house parties. However, she realises that pretending to be cool is just not cool and the mother-daughter bond faces some kind of reconciliation towards the end through a teary and cliché note. As with all coming of age stories the scenes often give a self-indulgent nudge and a wink to the audience that what has happened is so relatable and witty because "we've all been through it", which often feels forced. The only thing that was funny was the PE teacher, who appears very briefly when he takes over drama class.Ultimately, I think that there are too many characters and an over realiance on witticisms which meant that there was a lack of emotional depth that I was looking for. It was a depressing watch.

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nostalgiakitten

I watched Lady Bird on a plane. I was bored out of my mind, excited to see what all the hype was about. I had to turn it off five minutes into the movie. It is every stereotypical coming of age movie. And the main character is just a snobby brat. Not the charming kind of brat, either. It all just seems too overdone. If you'd like to watch the same thing you've seen a million times, go ahead and watch Lady Bird.

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