some of my favourite written details from the little women (dir. greta gerwig) screenplay
LITTLE WOMEN - ★★★½
Maybe the coziest movie I’ve ever seen.
Full review here, and I only mention a couple changes from the book in the last paragraph, if you want to avoid spoilers.
motionpicturesource’s March event: Director appreciation
“It was almost like it was the person I wish I could have been, but I didn’t have enough courage to do it - and then even though she’s flawed, and she makes mistakes, she’s a heroine to me.” - Greta Gerwig about Lady Bird
Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig photographed by Art Streiber for Vanity Fair, December 2017
Lady Bird begins with an epigraph, a Joan Didion quote about Sacramento, which proved perfectly suited as this movie hit me as hard and in the same way as Slouching Toward Bethlehem. It has that same deft portraiture of a particular place and time (the same place, the time 40 years on), that same extraordinary insight into people and what they do, that humor, that confession, that skillfulness in how it is told. Greta Gerwig has discovered how to film the way Joan Didion writes, and we are going to be so much wiser for it. It’s so strong, it’s so funny, it’s so perfectly crafted, it’s so GOOD.
I’m not sure when in the runtime I started crying at something in every scene, but I remember accepting that it was just going to be my life right now, vaguely hoping that my chair wasn’t shaking too obviously.
