The reimagining of 'Little Women' is all ablaze with ferocious purpose, urgent passion, boisterous humor and the nourishing essence of family life in good times and bad
“You’re on fire,” a man tells Jo near the beginning of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.” It isn’t meant as a compliment. The latest incarnation of Louisa May Alcott’s heroine, played gloriously by Saoirse Ronan, stands warming herself in front of a boarding-house fireplace on a wintry day in New York.
Not only does she dream of becoming a famous writer, she has just sold a short story to a publisher as the longer story on screen gets under way. Now, jotting down details of the transaction in a notebook, she doesn’t notice that flames are licking the bottom of her skirt until she’s warned by a fellow boarder, a handsome...
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