From “Frances Ha” and “Lady Bird” to “Little Women” and “Barbie,” we revisit the director’s best work as she arrives at the Cannes Film Festival to serve as jury president.
Before she was a four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Greta Gerwig was an accomplished actor, an indie darling who made the leap from mumblecore to mainstream with memorable parts in the likes of Greenberg, Maggie’s Plan, and 20th Century Women. On screen, she’s a live wire—dazzling, endlessly unpredictable—but it’s her work behind the camera, both as a writer and director, that feels era defining.
Mistress America Gerwig’s “pretend rewind” scene sums it up pretty perfectly: Noah Baumbach’s fizzy screwball comedy, again co-written with his future wife, is silly, hysterically funny, and, in parts, deeply relatable. A portrait of millennial malaise as experienced by a college freshman and her flighty, spacey, soon-to-be-stepsister , it sees the duo head off on a madcap adventure to Connecticut to confront the latter’s nemesis via a grizzled psychic and much soul searching.
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