It’s as if the book has been carefully cut apart and reassembled, its signatures sewn back together in an order that produces sparks of surprise and occasional bouts of pleasurable dizziness.Īs much as “ The Irishman” or “ Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” this is a film that tackles the mysteries of time.
![movie little women movie little women](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81vbMoAicYL._SX342_.jpg)
Whereas Alcott traces their fates in a straight line, Gerwig (aided by the deft editing of Nick Houy and the musical stitching of Alexandre Desplat’s score) proceeds by association and recollection. The rest of “Little Women” zigzags between two periods in the lives of Jo and her family. Rather than starting where Alcott does, during an austere wartime Christmas, Gerwig introduces us to Jo seven years later, an ink-stained scribbler paying a visit to a New York publisher (Tracy Letts). The girls’ nonjudgmental, non-wealthy father is played by Bob Odenkirk.
![movie little women movie little women](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/kP6R412yFLUrdewUTA5srunnc3w=/306x0:2000x887/fit-in/1200x630/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19545334/littlewomen3.jpg)
The spectacle of their natural, affectionate, clamorous intimacy is a joy to behold, one we occasionally glimpse through the amused eyes of potential suitors, fond neighbors and a prodigiously judgmental and very wealthy aunt played by Meryl Streep. Jo writes the plays that the rest of them perform for an audience that includes various toys, their mother (Laura Dern) and Hannah (Jayne Houdyshell), the housekeeper.īut the sisters live mainly to delight (and sometimes to torment) one another. Before romance, tragedy and the ordinary pains of growing up complicate matters, they are an inseparable if not always harmonious troupe. The youngest sister, Amy (Florence Pugh), and Jo are a painter and a writer who are frequently at odds. The oldest, Meg (Emma Watson) is theatrical and responsible Beth (Eliza Scanlen) is musical and sweet. The foursome varies by temperament and talent, inviting a mix-and-match game of identification and infatuation. And then this kind of position of this magical house that looks like a little mushroom coming out of the ground, but inside it’s like a jewel box when you open it up.” And I think Timothée does such a beautiful job, and these girls are so wonderfully loud. And he’s looking at them, but they’re existing naturally, and he loves them because of who they are. And I thought one of the beautiful things about ‘Little Women’ is the way the male characters hold the space for who women are without a spectator. Because he always has a way of creating spaces with lots of people and lots of activity.
![movie little women movie little women](https://www.kino.dk/sites/default/files/movie-posters/21586_1080px.jpg)
I looked at a lot of Altman thinking about it. Lawrence, we don’t.” “Laurie, please.” “But I just wanted it to be this cacophony of words and sounds, and everybody’s doing something, and there’s all these little moments. And the actors- I wanted them all to be speaking over each other, which took a lot of coordination, a lot of rehearsal to get this choreographed chaos going.” “I enjoy baking in the middle of the night. And this is the first time you’re really inside the March house, looking at it through Laurie’s eyes, and seeing this kind of glorious female utopia. And this is, of course, Laura Dern as Marmee. And every part of it looks like a painting, but also an ornament. We called it this golden glow that we were going for. And we shot with a certain filter to give it that feeling. I wanted everything to feel very shimmery and very beautiful. And this is part of the story that takes place in their childhood, obviously. But I did want to feel joyful and young, like kids dance. And I wanted it to feel both totally modern and period accurate, in terms of I didn’t want them to be doing dances that they wouldn’t necessarily know. And my choreographer, who’s very wonderful, Monica Bill Barnes- she created this dance with Saoirse and Timothée.
![movie little women movie little women](https://pepperdine-graphic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ONLINE-25-720x500.jpg)
And then I came back at night, and I thought, oh, you could see the dancers through the window, and then see them outside as these figures having their little party on the porch. And then I just kept coming back to this location because I liked it. And I wanted a long hallway, and I had this idea for how it would look. But I was looking for a hallway while we were scouting. And it’s the book that Laurie and Jo dance wildly, they say. It’s funny, I know.” “I have an idea of how we manage.” “And then they dance. And obviously, this is Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet, who I adore.” “You can laugh if you want to. And they’re hiding in a back room at a party, and they’re talking about maybe trying to dance. “I’m Greta Gerwig, and I directed and wrote the screenplay for ‘Little Women.’” “Jo, would you like to dance with me?” “So this is “Laurie” Lawrence and Jo March. Transcript ‘Little Women’ | Anatomy of a Scene Greta Gerwig narrates a scene from “Little Women,” featuring Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet.