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Greta Gerwig will star in "Greenberg"
After serving three years as the darling of the “mumblecore” film movement, actress Greta Gerwig is making the jump to studio movies.
The 24-year-old blonde starlet will star alongside Ben Stiller in Focus Features’ “Greenberg,” written and directed by Oscar-nominee Noah Baumbach. The film is slated for release next year.
Gerwig got her start in movies on the shoulders of Joe Swanberg, a director who many point to as the grandfather of Mumblecore. Gerwig has starred in three of Swanberg’s films, and even co-wrote “Nights and Weekends.”
Mumblecore is a genre that has only recently appeared in modern cinema. The films are shot on digital cameras for a tiny budget, often employ actors that have no formal training, and use outlines rather than scripts for the dialogue. The genre has not quite broken into the mainstream film market, but movies like “Baghead,” “The Pleasure of Being Robbed,” and “Medicine for Melancholy” have given Mumblecore a presence on the festival circuit.
“Greenberg” tells the tale of a New Yorker (Stiller) who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he house-sits for his brother. He soon sparks a love affair with his brother's assistant, who is played by Gerwig.
The film is written and directed by Noah Baumbach, who made a name for himself in 2005 with the breakout hit “The Squid and the Whale.” The film earned him an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay and won a host of awards on the festival circuit that year.
Gerwig is the first Mumblecore personality to make the jump to a big time studio picture, although Mark Duplass, who has written, directed, and acted in a number of Mumblecore films, may make a breakthrough when “Hump Day” premieres this fall.
For now, Gerwig stands alone.
Or, more accurately, Gerwig stands with Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach.
And that isn’t a bad place to be standing.
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