Michael Dinner
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Gerwig’s recollections of her own Catholic school days skip the emotional scarification and/or atmosphere of oppression that always seem to adorn these kinds of parochial-school memory movies (“Heaven Help Us” and the like).
Her school is not a dogmatic and formidable institution as seen in so many films about Catholic education, such as 1985’s Heaven Help Us , for Gerwig takes pains to show that its kindly nuns strive to help Lady Bird rise above her lack of scholastic achievements.