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"Once you get into fall and Oscar season, you can get trampled, " says Greta Gerwig, the film's star and co-screenwriter.
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Perhaps Ms. Gerwig is the greatest actress alive.
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Ms. Gerwig's performance is extraordinary notably nuanced, commandingly tender.
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We find ourselves at Seven Oaks College, where a bouquet of female students is bunched together: Violet (Greta Gerwig), Heather (Carrie MacLemore), Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and a newcomer by the name of Lily (Analeigh Tipton).
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But in "Lola Versus, " due in theaters June 8, the character of Alice played by Zoe Lister-Jones does that and then some: She finds love while the main character, Lola (Greta Gerwig), lights out on a path of self-destruction.
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