{"id":132831,"date":"2017-11-05T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132831"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:18:05","slug":"review-greta-gerwigs-lady-bird-for-film-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132831","title":{"rendered":"Review: Greta Gerwig&#8217;s <i>Lady Bird<\/i> for Film Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=132832\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132832\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tumblr_ow9ari6viz1up42jgo3_540.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132832\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <i>Film Comment<\/i> review (in print <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/article\/review-lady-bird-greta-gerwig\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and online<\/a>) of Greta Gerwig&#8217;s absolutely wonderful film (her debut as a writer\/director, at least flying solo) <i>Lady Bird<\/i>, starring Saoirse Ronan as an awkward and fearless teenager, gropingly &#8220;coming of age&#8221; in Sacramento (where Gerwig grew up). Gerwig can WRITE. But the direction is confident and sensitive too: she knows what she&#8217;s doing. <\/p>\n<p>One of the best films of the year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/article\/review-lady-bird-greta-gerwig\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the review. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Film Comment review (in print and online) of Greta Gerwig&#8217;s absolutely wonderful film (her debut as a writer\/director, at least flying solo) Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan as an awkward and fearless teenager, gropingly &#8220;coming of age&#8221; in Sacramento &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132831\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2544,2499,2668,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147960,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132831\/revisions\/147960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}