Opinião ▪ Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig. 2017

Em Sacramento (Califórnia), em 2000, uma peculiar jovem adolescente de 17 anos faz a sua entrada na vida adulta. 

É este o mote do filme Lady Bird de Greta Gerwig. Os talentos de Greta como atriz são sobejamente conhecidos mas a sua estreia na realização entra diretamente na mesma lista de Woody Allen e Richard Linklater ao criar um filme sobre a vida, sobre os momentos afortunados desta mas também sobre os infelizes, sobre os prazeres mas também sobre os infortúnios. Lady Bird é inocentemente sincero e mostra personagens que são retratos de pessoas reais e com as quais nos identificamos. 

Opinião ▪ 20th Century Women | Mike Mills. 2016

“The beginning of my writing process is I just try to remember as much stuff as I can and write them down on single 5x7 cards. I don’t think about structure, I don’t think about Final Draft, which is the software you write scripts in, and I’m just compiling, compiling, compiling and I have a character stack and those were the Jamie stuff…. [but] as a guy talking about women, I was very worried and wanted to find where my limitations were and sort of make them part of the piece. And also writing is such an isolating practice, it’s such a horribly isolating practice, I was desperate just to go and meet other people and kind of work in a slightly more journalistic way, and do interviews and try to find little nuggets of details I could insert in my story. … I like that, it’s slightly documentary, slightly journalistic flavor to the writing practice and it gets you out of your little cell.”

– Mike Mills