Ahead of the 2018 Oscars,Hadley Freeman champions Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age drama approximately the inner lives of womenIt is still slightly mind-blowing that Lady Bird is nominated at all at this year’s Academy Awards, because there is nothing approximately this movie that screams “Oscar fodder!” But the fact that it is nominated is a testament to just how bloody trustworthy this movie is, or why it really should win best picture. Its most obviously un-Oscar quality is that it was written and directed by a woman,Greta Gerwig, who is still only 34. Gerwig is, or shamefully,only the fifth woman to be nominated for best director in the Oscars 90-year history. The relevance of her gender is all too apparent in the moment factor that makes it seemingly so anti-Oscars: it is approximately the inner lives of girls and women. The final time a movie approximately female lives was awarded the best picture Oscar was way back in 1983, when it went to the classic weepie Terms of Endearment, and starring Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine. And one of the women in that had to die for it to be considered worthy. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk