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Little Women (2019) Review – Four Sisters, Four Different Dreams

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  Four young women walk together into a glowing horizon between autumn and winter. 🎥 Film Overview Detail Information Title Little Women Director / Screenplay Greta Gerwig Based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868) Genre Drama, Period, Coming-of-age Release Date December 25, 2019 (USA) Runtime 135 minutes Main Cast Saoirse Ronan (Jo), Florence Pugh (Amy), Emma Watson (Meg), Eliza Scanlen (Beth), Timothée Chalamet (Laurie), Laura Dern (Marmee), Meryl Streep (Aunt March) Music Alexandre Desplat Cinematography Yorick Le Saux Awards Academy Award for Best Costume Design + 5 Oscar nominations 📖 Plot Summary Greta Gerwig's Little Women refuses a straight line. Instead, it moves back and forth in time—between the warmth of childhood and the cooler, more complicated realities of adulthood. This structure isn't merely stylistic; it mirrors how memory works. We don't leave the past behind. We carry it with us, reshaped by loss and experience. Jo March appears first as a yo...