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I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.

So excited to welcome Greta Gerwig back to this show. This is her checking my watch.

Third time on Bullseye, a rare honor. Probably the greatest honor in all of show business.

Greta is of course an actor. She starred in dozens of films, films like Francis Ha and

20th Century Women. She also had a regular part on the adult swim show China Illinois.

In 2017, she wrote and directed the film, and she was a great actor.

She was a great actor. She was a great actor.

She starred in dozens of films, and she was a great actor.

In 2017, she wrote and directed the movie Lady Bird. It's one of my favorites of maybe my favorite movie,

the past decade. A quiet movie about growth and change told from the perspective of a high school senior living in Sacramento.

And her follow-up is Little Women.

Little Women also one of my favorite movies of the past decade or so.

I think my favorite movie of the year. It's a retelling of the classic Louis M.A. Alcott book, beautifully shot and perfectly cast,

and just incredibly alive. The plot revolves around the March family and their four daughters. It's set in the mid-1800s.

The closest thing the movie has to a protagonist is Joe, one of the sisters. She's an aspiring writer.

She's coming of age in Massachusetts, and in later scenes in the film, she is in New York, shopping her first manuscript.

Let's listen to a scene from the movie with Amy, the youngest March sister, played by Florence Pugh.

So Amy is engaged to a rich guy. She doesn't really love him.

And Lori, who's played by Timothy Chalamet, is trying to convince her not to get married.

I've always known I would marry Rich. Why should I be ashamed of that?

It's nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you love him.

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