Nights and Weekends (2008)
Directed by Joe Swanberg
A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
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Barbie (2023), una propuesta escrita y dirigida por Greta Gerwig y su tercera película en solitario luego del olvidable exponente mumblecore Noches y Fines de Semana ( Nights and Weekends , 2008), craneado junto a Joe Swanberg, es un trabajo desparejo que por un lado tira por la borda aquel naturalismo concienzudo de Lady Bird (2017) y Mujercitas ( Little Women , 2019), en ambas realizaciones cercano al relato de iniciación o bildungsroman o coming of age aunque en el primer caso estrechamente vinculado al cine independiente de Estados Unidos y en el segundo a la larguísima colección de adaptaciones de la novela decimonónica de Louisa May Alcott, y por el otro lado adopta la estrategia reglamentaria de todo blockbuster posmoderno, burdo y autoexplicativo que se precie de tal, léase eso de unificar múltiples recursos narrativos/ discursivos/ ideológicos/ formales en un pastiche que lamentablemente no logra redondear ninguna de las vertientes de turno, lo que de todos modos no le resta méritos al film…
Writer-director Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”/”Nights and Weekends”) gives it a different spin and tries to shake things up a bit, even mixing up the chronology of the novel, making this seem not like the Little Women I recall from my youth (I’m on board with the 1933 faithful version, where Katharine Hepburn was the rebellious heroine in need of maturity).
That this is only her second solo directorial effort (she co-directed and co-wrote 2008’s “Nights and Weekends” with Joe Swanberg) is shocking.
That’s Lady Bird , Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut — she previously co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg — loosely inspired by her teenage years in Sacramento in the early 2000s.
But maybe it’s also that Gerwig–who previously co-directed, with Joe Swanberg, the 2008 Nights and Weekends –is kind of like the cartoon Sleeping Beauty , good at breezily orchestrating the special gifts of each bird in the forest.
Gerwig, making her solo directing debut (she previously collaborated on the 2008 mumblecore movie Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg), injects Lady Bird with the kind of vivacious energy that suffused the films she co-wrote with the director Noah Baumbach ( Frances Ha and Mistress America ).
Though Gerwig technically co-directed the scrappy 2008 romantic drama “Nights and Weekends,” that project registers as little more than a footnote to the mature production values on display here.
Making her solo directorial debut (she shares a credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends ), Gerwig sets Lady Bird in her hometown of Sacramento, and in 2002, when she was around the same age as her protagonist/proxy, 17-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan).
Screenwriter Greta Gerwig, in a spectacular solo directing debut (she co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg in 2008), has carved a brilliantly hilarious and heartfelt script out of her own teen life.