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The Req Room with Mandy and Mio

Mio Borromeo and Mandy Cruz

18 episodes

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A book podcast that asks the question: when does a writer’s work become required reading? Every other week, The Req Room hosts Mio Borromeo and Mandy Cruz take popular authors of the day and review each entry in their bibliographies, to see just how close these writers get to the sweet spot between mainstream breakout success and traditional literary sensibility.

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Lady Bird

The Req Room with Mandy and Mio

1 hour 35 minutes 10 seconds

4 years ago

Lady Bird

Our real summer has just begun! Mandy and Mio kick the new semester off with a review of the 2017 film Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut is set in Sacramento, where Gerwig grew up, but how did she distance herself from the film's subject (aka the TITULAR role)? Mandy and Mio also talk about why this film sometimes feels like a stage play, how Lady Bird fits into the canon of the coming-of-age genre, and how this film speaks to young people from small places. Also, Mio asks Mandy a question about the Brooklyn Nets.

See you next week for our episode on Alan Bennett's play The History Boys!

cw: spoilers for Lady Bird, Edge of Seventeen (2016), and The First Time (2012)

tw: discussion of sexual assault in other teen/coming-of-age movies: 54:56 - 56:42

DISCLAIMER: We encountered some technical issues in recovering the audio track from our usual recording platform, so some of our early episodes this summer may feature less-than-average sound quality. We apologize for the issue and hope to fix it soon!

Show notes:

- On Story 801: A Conversation with Greta Gerwig at the Austin Film Festival (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8n4kP37DE)

- Edge of Seventeen (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fW8SqSiP7U)

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