Maybe Go
This is a film about a girl coming of age. I don’t get it. However, watching Saoirse Ronan is a rare pleasure. She is on par with Judy Dench and Meryl Streep.
For me the relationship with her father was touching,
“Knock knock, come in Dad”
“How did you know it was me?”
“Mom doesn’t knock”
As in most films where a young girl is taught in a Catholic high school, the nuns are the looming moral force for restraint embodied in the principal, Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith), a realist who knows Lady Bird is a creative and independent spirit. So, too, in a different way is Lady Bird’s mother, Marion (Laurie Metcalf), whose tough love is constant, but whose love is there if only Lady Bird would see it. Mom’s agony at the airport when Bird goes to college is as anguished a mom/daughter parting as you will ever see in a comedy.