Hello Barbie! What do you need to know before watching about Greta Gerwig, who directed the most anticipated movie of the year?

“Barbie” is hitting worldwide theaters – perhaps the main movie premiere of the year, and it’s been filling up the entire infomercial in the last few weeks. Special animations at Google on demand, Margot Robbie appearing as the iconic doll, more than thirty collaborations with brands especially for the premiere, and even Warner Bros. that life-size pink “dream house” with the movie. clearly decided to give us one of the most high-profile marketing campaigns in history.

However, for them, it seems, the game is worth the candle – this is evidenced by at least the initial reviews from critics, who predicted Ryan Gosling’s Oscar nomination.

But the loudest applause for the emerging story was, of course, given to Greta Gerwig, who is the director of the film and co-wrote the script for a couple with her husband, and Noah Baumbach, author of “Marriage Story” and “Sweet Frances.” .

After the successes of Lady Bird and Little Women, Barbie should solidify Greta Gerwig as one of the greatest directors of our time, and with a filmography of only four films, that’s probably invaluable.

At the same time, it’s important to understand that he started his cinematography career on the other side of the frame, playing mainly in mumblecore, an independent, low-budget cinematography. More than three dozen other projects have appeared in his portfolio, including Greenberg, Ben Stiller, Jackie by Pablo Larrain, and even Woody Allen’s Roman Adventures.

For her first major independent project, Greta Gerwig was ripe for 2017 and was successful on all fronts. “Lady Bird”, a touching drama about growing up, was largely made according to her own biography and set the tone for all the future work of the actress yesterday.

It’s the subtlety of the stories, the complexity of the characters (simple but lost, so young but wise in their own way), good humor, and special warmth in each frame.

Her first attempt at writing in the form of “Lady Bird” proved such a formula to work quite well, and her two Golden Globe statuettes and five Oscar nominations (among other things, making her the fifth woman in the world to be nominated for the main film award for directing) spoke for themselves here.

In fact, after two confident and daring dramas, the name of Greta Gerwig next to Barbie initially aroused questions and genuine interest – what new can Hollywood’s finest playwright say about a plastic doll?

It is worth mentioning here that she wrote the script for this story with her husband, Noah Baumbach, whom she met on the set of Greenberg, 12 years ago, in her directorial debut. Yes, once this movie gave him not only recognition in a professional setting, but also (without exaggeration) the love of his life. And although both do not talk about their personal lives, their joint projects speak for themselves – no matter how much love, they were born out of nothing else.

And in their world, “Barbie” doesn’t sing “Barbie Girl” from Aqua, but she was fired from “Barbieland” because she learned to live in the real world that didn’t meet beauty standards and the path to perfection was not perfect, but inner harmony. curls

While Greta Gerwig was working on the most anticipated movie of the year, she brought exaggeration to the fore in its most direct sense – which is why there’s a lot of pink in the picture and “too much of everything in general”. To create the scene, directors and set designers Sarah Greenwood and Kathy Spencer (Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina) had to forgo the use of graphics as much as possible, Sarah Greenwood joked in an interview with AD: “The world has gone pink.”

But the most important thing to remember when buying tickets for the gala is that it is based on the book “Ophelia’s Resurrection”, which is dedicated to young girls who one day begin to realize their nonexistent flaws. Why not Gerwig’s Barbie?