Can Greta Gerwig Be Trusted With Narnia? | Fr. Patrick Briscoe and Fr. Gregory Pine

October 8, 2026

Greta Gerwig: Barbie, Lady Bird, Little Women & Narnia

What makes Greta Gerwig’s films so compelling? Fr. Patrick Briscoe and Fr. Gregory Pine explore the acclaimed filmmaker’s work through the themes of truth, love, identity, femininity, coming of age, and homecoming.

From the surprising treatment of Catholicism in Lady Bird to the complicated relationship between men and women in Barbie and Little Women, the friars consider Gerwig’s ability to portray human experience without reducing it to easy ideological answers. Her characters confront disappointment, desire, relationships, family, and the difficult task of seeing life as it really is.

The conversation also turns toward Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. What might a filmmaker known for curiosity, character development, and complicated portrayals of reality bring to The Magician’s Nephew?