Greta Gerwig delivers an amazing, imposing and charming version of the famous Roman of Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women”. With Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Timothy Chalamet, Louis Garrel.
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Only in French-speaking countries Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are the four daughters of Dr. March, title of the amazing, imposing and charming version of the Roman of Louisa May Alcott (published in 1868) , signed Greta Gerwig. Elsewhere, it is “small women” (the original title, Little Women, was literally translated into Spanish, Italian or German), teenagers, in a time when this category did not exist.
The director and American screenwriter wanted, and knew how to make a classic of the Children’s Literature of the XIX e century a feminist manifest for the use of girls and boys of the XXI e . It never loses sight, a fiction, a fiction of which it also tells the gestation, from the first sequences, abolishing the distance between the lattice of the novel and his character.
Jo March (Saoierse Ronan), three years after the end of the secession war (in April 1865), Vivote in New York. She hopes to live better by convincing magazine publishers to publish her news. Among them, Tracy Lettts, customary of the roles of authority, embodies the dominant speech in these post-war years: it is to be distracted, even to fumble, while keeping up with hustlement.
Asymmetrical Romance
From this unequal fight, OJ comes out with the honors: his text will be published, the few dollars he will bring to him will be used to support his family who still lives, despite the return of war of Dr. March (doctor of theology , not in medicine, hence the destitution). She has barely time to meet Professor Bhaer (Louis Garrel), an intellectual exotic, that the film embarked for Paris, where Amy (Florence Pugh) takes paint classes under the hood of a dictatorial aunt (Meryl Streep ), Before returning to Massachusetts, where Meg, the eldest (Emma Watson), never ends up mourning his youth dreams while Beth (Eliza Scanlen) deviate from the sequence of Scarlatin.
Greta Gerwig prints his film a gravity that is filigree, even at the most euphoric moments, like this provincial ball that should mark the beginnings in MEG society to be ultimately the occasion of the meeting between Jo and Laurie (Timothy Chalamet). From this asymmetrical romance between a boy in the name of girl and a girl on behalf of boy, you can make a childish idyll. The director makes it an initiation that tests both the desire for independence of the girl and the sensuality of the boy.
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