Reviewing Movies

Little Women 2019

Saoirse Ronan

Jo March



Emma Watson

Meg March



Florence Pugh

Amy March



Eliza Scanlen

Beth March



Laura Dern

Marmee March



Timothée Chalamet

Laurie

This is not a period piece. Marmee seems barely older than her daughters. The current "it" boy is Laurie.

The location jumps back and forward in time and place. The movie begins with Jo receiving her first payment for her much edited work, then jumps to Amy's art classes in Paris. What is adeptly captured is the chatter and squabbles of a house overflowing with 5 women with Laurie often the foil.

Friedrich Bhear looks grizzled but certainly not the aging professor.

I will say that Teddy looks dowdy in period costuming.

And the movie ends with Papa March's return so it gets the Hollywood treatment.