Among the many virtues of Greta Gerwig’s charming and incisive debut feature, Lady Bird, is the way it depicts mother-daughter relationships – with warmth, humour and unflinching honesty. Saoirse Ronan’s eponymous teen routinely clashes with her mother, as played by Laurie Metcalf, yet they also share moments of sincere affection. To celebrate the film’s release, we asked four of our regular female contributors to write a short letter to their own mother… Dear Mum, Remember the day I moved to Manchester? I can’t remember the weather, only that it was September, and by the time you’d helped me unpack my things it was getting dark outside. I felt weird when you left, impatient for my new life to start. Later, you told me that you’d cried in the car on the way home. I’ve been thinking about all the times we’ve left each other. You, leaving me on the first day of school (me, sobbing so hard in protest that the school called you to come and collect me). Me, leaving you to go and study in the States for six months, gliding up the escalator at the airport – the image playing as a reversed version of Greta Gerwig descending an escalator to… Read full this story
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