EShe is preparing to chair the jury of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. At 40 years old, the American Greta Gerwig is one of the most notable personalities of the seventh art, after three films directed, around ten written screenplays and several memorable roles as an actress. While she is not yet known, a photograph accompanies the very first mention of her name in The worldNovember 23, 2009. Greta Gerwig then plays a secondary role in the French TV film A New York adventure, directed by Olivier Lécot, with Jonathan Zaccaï and Fanny Valette.
The following year, in a critical assessment of the Berlinale, Thomas Sotinel focused on Greenberg, the comedy “sweet but never bitter” by Noah Baumbach, in which Greta Gerwig this time plays one of the main roles. The actress, compared to Kate Winslet, is then described as “ stunning and youthful “. The culture journalist highlights the “Impressive CV” of the 26-year-old young woman and her new role as “muse” of “mumblecore” (of mumble“mumble”), a trend in low-budget American cinema which stands out for the numerous improvisations of the actors.
With her demanding role choices, Greta Gerwig became a figure in American independent cinema in the early 2010s. “She is one of those actresses who naturally capture the spirit of their time, impose a new way of being on the world, make an unknown perfume hover around them whose alchemy catches you suddenly, seduces you, convert you…”, greets Isabelle Regnier, July 3, 2013, during the release of Frances Ha, by Noah Baumbach, in which she sees a “generation film”. Where an entire youth can recognize themselves in the wanderings of this precarious dancer, between New York and Paris.
The same day, in an article by Thomas Sotinel devoted to the duo formed by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, we learned that the acclaimed actress is also the co-writer of this black and white wandering. The culture journalist depicts the working relationship of the two artists which inaugurates a new model: “Unlike her elder Annie Hall, Frances Ha is not the idealized representation of the woman loved by the artist, she is a creature born from joint work, which began with the writing of the screenplay . » Their film, compared to the first successes of the New Wave in France at the end of the 1950s, appears to be proof that it is possible to escape the constraints of the cinema industry and create original works. On the lookout for all opportunities, Greta Gerwig did not hide her desire to “get behind the camera”.
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