When I was in college, I started reading a lot about women who rebelled against medieval culture like Christine de Pizan - I got really into her poetry - and started thinking about that time period. It was like my comfort book, my cozy book. “It was the first time I’d read a character maybe since Eloise who I felt really reflected both who I was and who I wanted to be,” Dunham says, speaking in London ahead of the movie’s release. One of those readers, who discovered the novel when she was 10, is the picture’s writer-director, Lena Dunham. The book, about a rebellious teen girl living in the English feudal system of 1290, has been beloved by readers for nearly three decades.
That’s the sensibility of “Catherine Called Birdy,” a new film adapted from Karen Cushman’s 1994 young adult novel of the same name. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.Unfortunately, he is also the richest.Throughout history, there has been one universal truth: A teenager is a teenager, no matter the era.
Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man-any rich man, no mater how awful.But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing.
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father? Deus Not if Catherine has anything to say about it Catherine feels trapped.
Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Her father is determined to marry her off to arich man-any rich man, no matter how awful. "Corpus Bones I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped.
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