![]() The picture that emerges is of four women looking back with affection at how they became who they are. As every reader brings her own personal interpretation and meaning to the story, Gerwig puts her own stamp on the story. ![]() Gerwig approached the material with a determination to capture the sweeping, epic nature of the story that captures the enormity of what Alcott created, but also an honest, disarming emotional intimacy that brings the characters to life. This deeply personal, fiercely alive idea of Little Women is the one writer-director Greta Gerwig wanted to transport to the screen. The insistent power of the book is its distinctly individual call to grapple with life’s many clashing lures-with family, art, money, love, freedom, and the hope of being 100% who you are, creating your own unique story. It is a book that we first encounter as children, when the world’s possibilities are wide open and there is nothing in the world that can hold us back we return as young adults, when the constraints of adulthood and society begin to shape who we are and we return again, as older readers, with the bittersweet nostalgia of what it meant to be young and bold, joined with the exciting joy of seeing a new generation experience that daring for themselves. It is a book that is unsparing in its depiction of the way the world is hard on ambitious girls, but also offers a comfort: that ambition – a vibrant inner life that breaks the bonds of the world – is its own reward. ![]() Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.Īcross disparate countries and radically different eras, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has come to life in a million different ways. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters-four young women each determined to live life on her own terms-is both timeless and timely. Writer-director Greta Gerwig ( Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life.
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