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Burgeoning alt-muse Greta Gerwig cut her teeth working on the indie films LOL and Hannah Takes the Stairs, the ones that launched director Joe Swanberg’s career and helped define the ultra-lo-fi, unfortunately named “mumblecore” movement. Now Gerwig and Swanberg are back with an intensely emotional relationship drama that they co-wrote and co-directed — Nights and Weekends, opening at the IFC Center tonight — that may be their strongest, most relatable work to date. Gerwig spoke to Vulture this week about her tempestuous relationship with Swanberg and the joys of seeing your head explode. So what was the inspiration for this movie? The original idea was that we were going to make a movie about a happy couple. [Laughs.] But then when we started shooting it, it became kind of clear that we were making another movie. We shot... [read full story]
