ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the aesthetic realm of Lady Bird and finds it responsive to the film's ethos that love and attention are the same thing, which emerges from Transcendentalism and the mystic Simone Weil. It explores the influence of Joan Didion and how the film's palette honours Wayne Thiebaud's paintings of Sacramento. Paying attention to texture, colour, costume and music, this chapter examines too the rituals of high school, the obvious and unlikely things that spark enduring memories, and the songs that capture and release such moments.
