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Lady Bird is a 2017 film about an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl who comes of age in Sacramento, California.. "Lady Bird" is exactly the right movie for this fraught moment, writes Tribune columnist Mary Schmich. Lady Bird has excellent cinematography and believable characters with identifiable flaws and traits that really ground the movie. Didion, whom Gerwig calls her patron saint, looms large in "Lady Bird." With Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges. Lady Bird is as much a movie about time and place as it is about anything, and Gerwig saw her native Sacramento as a supporting character. Bird Box broke streaming records and inspired the author of the book it was based on to write a sequel. Actress and writer Greta Gerwig makes her directorial debut with “Lady Bird,” a quiet, but poignant, teen drama set just one year after September 11. Where Lady Bird sets itself apart from the “finding yourself” movies that came before it is in its honesty. Lady Bird was Greta Gerwig's first film as a director, but she was already an accomplished actor and screenwriter by this point. “That opening came together so perfectly. Lady Bird, which Gerwig wrote and with which she makes her directorial debut, centers on high school senior Christine McPherson, self-nicknamed Lady Bird, … Joan Didion is from Sacramento, and so is Greta Gerwig—the idiosyncratic star releasing her excellent solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, this weekend. Like Lady Bird, Merrily We Roll Along is about the promise and ecstatic entropy of youth, and the process of moving on from it, for better or worse. Every event in the titular character’s life is defined by a trend reflective of Sacramento ― and the United States at large ― circa late 2002 and early 2003. 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