Lady Bird

Un petit film sans prétention et puis surtout, doux-amer comme je les aime. Je pense donc avoir trouvé mon favori pour les Oscars. Il s’agit probablement du premier – et peut-être même du dernier – film tourné à Sacramento que j’ai eu l’occasion de voir. Et c’est une agréable surprise qui me ravit sur pas mal de points. Saoirse Ronan est absolument parfaite, le personnage de Lady Bird semble avoir été écrit pour elle, les seconds rôles avec Laurie Metcalf et Tracy Letts sont impeccables, tout comme ceux des jeunes espoirs Hedges et Chalamet. D’ailleurs, comment se fait-il que ceux-ci se retrouvent dans autant de films nominés aux Oscars ? Le scénario est superbement écrit, le montage est excellent, de même que la BO et, pour couronner le tout, l’ambiance magistralement retranscrite de la capitale de Californie, même si c‘est peut-être la ville californienne la moins connue. L’humour est parfois mordant, sarcastique, ou même noir, mais il m’a fait rire aux éclats. Par contraste, les nombreux thèmes suggestifs et motifs percutants sont traités de façon très subtile – tellement subtile, en fait, que ceux-ci peuvent échapper à l’attention du spectateur. Et la sœur de Jonah Hill dans le rôle de la meilleure amie ? C'est la cerise sur le gâteau ! Le 4 mars à Helsinski, je croiserai les doigts pour ce film ! (13/02/2018)

I really cannot comprehend what is so good about this movie. While Saoirse Ronan is more or less good as Lady Bird, still she is somehow disagreeable, angry and unlikeable, which makes me dislike her for a while. There is nothing funny, entertaining or at least a little bit interesting about this movie. Sure, you can see a certain world of a strongly Christian family that Saoirse is trying to defy, at least a bit. But it is no special kind of defiance, rather it is that defiance typical for any teenager and the director made a bigger deal of it than was necessary. (14/01/2018)

A superbly acted journey into the depths of a teenager's soul. Saoirse Ronan did a very good job of playing an insolent rebel looking for herself and for someone to be with, but without the counterpart of Laurie Metcalf in the role of mother, her Lady Bird would have only been halfway there. It's an enjoyable spectacle, not as quirky funny as Juno (it was similar to that film mainly through the father's jokes and the scene with the coach who was coaching the school theatre), but a little more melancholy... And, unfortunately, a little protracted towards the end. (16/03/2018)

I didn't used to like Saoirse Ronan that much, but she pleasantly surprised me in the pre-last Brooklyn and so it was her turn again this time as part of catching up on Oscar nominees. And I must simply state that if a completely ordinary and unobtrusive Lady Bird, not only in terms of acting, wins any baldy, I will just shake my head. The film has a story that certainly plays into the hands of the Academy, but I didn't see anything other than just a plain drama, which has several interesting moments that ultimately raised my rating by one notch, however, otherwise a strict average. At least it lasts tolerable 90 minutes, which last year's hell Fences can only envy. (25/02/2018)

I still can't come to terms with the fact that the same film, which stole the hearts of 99% of reviewers overseas, is considered just above average in the domestic market, despite its innocence and naivety. Perhaps here the cliché rule applies, when a viewer, spoiled by American whispering and the increasing number of prestigious awards, expects a life-changing spectacle and gets – Lady Bird. Small, angry, headless, sincere. When it gets under your skin, you understand that this is not supposed to be a life-changing experience, but the exact opposite. An honest depiction of the most average, ordinary, and therefore, the most enchanting adolescence. Everyone has experienced enough family and relationship turmoil, hopes, and leaps into the unknown, and even though mine may differ somewhat from those in which Christine was embroiled, the accompanying moods are almost identical. An easy spectacle that doesn't need to surpass any benchmarks. (16/01/2018)