Barbie (2023)

Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. 

Tonight we’ll be going down the plastic slide with Greta Gerwig’s 2023 smash hit comedy caper Barbie. Written with Noah Baumbach, creator of 2019’s Marriage Story, this film sees director Greta Gerwig follow up the success of 2017’s Lady Bird and 2019’s Little Women. Both she and Baumbach had previously collaborated on films such as Greenberg, Frances Ha and Mistress America, but none of these projects touched the hem of the financial success of Barbie. What is it about the pairing of Barbie and Ken that has captured the public’s imagination? What does the film tell us about relationships, real world ones or otherwise? Did you lose interest in the patriarchy once you found out it wasn’t about horses.

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Recorded in September 2023. 

Produced by Catrin Lowe and Rich Nelson

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Design by NOAKE (on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@n_o_a_k_e⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

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