Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 438 (2020-03-20)

(Antfer) #1

Little Women


New York City teacher Jo March (Saoirse
Ronan) reflects on a life in which her sister
Amy (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris.
Meanwhile, the eldest March sibling, Meg
(Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher
and shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) suffers a
serious illness.

FIVE FACTS:



  1. This is writer-director Greta Gerwig’s film
    adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel
    of the same name.

  2. Coincidentally, Alcott herself was recently
    depicted on-screen by Zosia Mamet in the
    Apple TV+ series Dickinson, starring Hailee
    Steinfeld as the poet Emily Dickinson.

  3. Controversially, despite the film’s critical
    and commercial success, Gerwig was denied
    an Academy Award nomination for her
    directorial work here.

  4. The Columbia Pictures logo opening this
    film is actually the 1990s version – a nod to
    the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women,
    with which Columbia was also involved.

  5. Emma Stone was lined up to play Meg, but
    scheduling conflicts with the promotional
    drive for 2018’s The Favorite led her to drop
    out of the role.


Rotten Tomatoes


94 %


by Greta Gerwig
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019
Price: $14.99


114 Ratings

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