![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Throughout history, there has been one universal truth: A teenager is a teenager, no matter the era. ![]()
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