Ahead of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, here’s where to stream other notable screen adaptations, from depression-era George Cukor to lush animeIt’s a sign of advancing age when a film remake rolls along and your first reaction is: “Already? Didn’t we just have the last one?” So it was with me when the news landed that Greta Gerwig was making a new version of Little Women – the first major big-screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s pioneering young adult novel in 25 years.
Not that long ago to some of us; a literal lifetime to the little women (and men) who are its primary audience.
Gerwig’s version, with its structural zigzagging and injection of Generation Z feminism, will be released in UK cinemas on Boxing Day.While you wait for it, however, revisiting the timeline of past versions is both an interesting chronological exercise and a suitably seasonal comfort-viewing binge.
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