Lady Bird: the pains of being pure at heart
by Stephanie Zacharek
Nov 13, 2017
2 minutes
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WRITER-DIRECTOR GRETA GERWIG’S SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL Lady Bird is both generous and joyous, but when it stings, it stings deep. At one point, Saoirse Ronan, as disgruntled high school senior Christine, begs her mother, Laurie Metcalf’s Marion, for a magazine at the supermarket: “It’s only $3! I’m having a bad week!” Marion brushes her off, and it could be the
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