Little Women

Dir. Gillian Armstrong. 1994, 119 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Susan Sarandon, Trini Alvarado, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz. The best adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Armstrong’s magnificent and deeply heartfelt film, shot partly on location in exquisitely wintry Massachusetts, stars an incandescent, Oscar-nominated Ryder as Jo March, the most rambunctious and independent of four sisters being looked after by their “Marmee” (a soulful Sarandon) while their father fights in the Civil War. Richly observed, with a genuine, authentic feeling for both the bonds of sisterhood and the textures of 19th-century New England living, Armstrong’s Little Women transports the viewer to both a different time and into the intellectual interior world of its indefatigable literary protagonist. 

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