Little Women (2019)

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Movie
German title Little Women
Original title Little Women
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Greta Gerwig
script Greta Gerwig
production Amy Pascal ,
Denise Di Novi ,
Robin Swicord
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Yorick Le Saux
cut Nick Houy
occupation
synchronization

Little Women is an American historical drama directed by Greta Gerwig based on the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott . The coming-of-age story was published in German under various titles, including The Four Sisters and Betty and their Sisters , and has already been filmed several times. Gerwig's version with Emma Watson , Saoirse Ronan , Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen was released in US cinemas on December 25, 2019 and in German cinemas on January 30, 2020. At the 2020 Academy Awards , the film received a total of six nominations, including Best Picture and Ronan Best Actress .

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In the mid-19th century, four sisters grew up in a society characterized by rigid gender roles.

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The film is based on the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The film is based on the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The film is based on the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The film is based on the novel Little Women by the American writer Louisa May Alcott . This was published in England under the titles Little Women and Good Wives in two parts, which formed the prelude to Louisa May Alcott's children's and youth literature. Little Women I wrote it between May and July and published it in October 1868, after the end of the American Civil War, the second part it published in April 1869.

The plot and theme of the first part are strongly autobiographical. It is about the four sisters Jo, Meg, Betty and Amy March. Since the father is in the army, the women have to cope with their life after the American Civil War without any patriarchal leadership. Although the girls are very different, they are all equally fearless and experience one adventure after another.

Alcott had written Little Women especially for girls. Later works like A Story of Experience were feminist development novels. As the daughter of the philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott , unable to support his family, she was forced to support her three sisters and her parents from an early age and, while living in poverty in Fruitlands Commune , the need for financial independence became apparent aware of what made her a writer in later years.

Previous film adaptations

The first US theatrical adaptation of Little Women with the German title Vier Schwestern with Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett was made in 1933 under the direction of George Cukor . In 1949, Little Brave Jo was followed by a version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh , directed by Mervyn LeRoy . In 1978, a two-part US television version was produced, and in 1994 a film adaptation by Gillian Armstrong with Betty and her sisters , in which Winona Ryder , Kirsten Dunst , Claire Danes and Christian Bale played. An early British film adaptation from 1917 is considered lost. In 2017, a 3-part television multipart with Maya Hawke and Emily Watson was broadcast on the BBC in the UK and PBS in the US. In 2018, Clare Niederpruem's modern interpretation of the subject was published under the title Four Sisters . Under the title A Happy Family , an anime series (Japanese 愛 の 若 草 物語 Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari, literally: The story of the young grass of love) was published in Japan in 1987, which is also based on the book by Alcott.

production

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Directed by Greta Gerwig , as it became known in summer 2018. Originally the American director was only supposed to adapt Alcott's novel for the film, but after the success of her film Lady Bird , she was also entrusted with directing it. The new edition of Little Women is supposed to focus on the lives of the girls after they have moved from home, to jump back and forth between childhood scenes and the present and to portray the personal developments of Meg, Jo and Amy. In the summer of 2018, producer Robin Swicord , who had already adapted Alcott's novel for Betty and her sisters and also co-produced the film , commented that , in contrast to earlier adaptations, the film mainly covers the second half of the book, with the March sisters becoming young adults are: "He takes a look at what it means for a young woman to enter the adult world," Swicord said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in early July 2018, and Gerwig's view of the novel has them all more than convinced to bring something new to the screen.

Cast and filming

The Oscar -nominated Irish actress Saoirse Ronan , who already in Gerwigs Lady Bird took over the lead role, plays the tempestuous writer Jo March. The Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet , with whom Ronan already worked for Lady Bird , plays the rich, handsome neighbor boy Laurie. Emma Stone originally got the role of Meg, the sensible and oldest sister. In August 2018 it was announced that Emma Watson will replace her fellow actor Stone, who was involved in the film project The Favorite . Florence Pugh plays young Amy. Meryl Streep took on the role of Aunt March. Laura Dern plays Mrs. March, the mother of the four sisters.

Filming began on October 5, 2018 in Boston. Louisa May Alcott's family moved there in 1834, and it is here that the author wrote a number of her novels. The production design is by Jess Gonchor , the costumes were designed by Oscar-winner Jacqueline Durran .

Film music and publication

The film music is composed by Alexandre Desplat . The soundtrack album, which comprises a total of 26 tracks, was released on December 13, 2019 by Sony Classical as download and on vinyl.

The first trailer was presented in mid-August 2019. The film was first shown on October 23, 2019 in Los Angeles for members of the Directors Guild of America and members of the press. Little Women was released in US cinemas on December 25, 2019 and in German cinemas on January 30, 2020. It is scheduled to hit Chinese cinemas on August 25, 2020.

reception

Age rating

In the United States, the MPAA rated the film as a PG. In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction.

Reviews and grossing results

In December 2018, IndieWire named the film one of the 20 most anticipated films of the 2019 cinema year. It is rated positively by 95 percent of all critics recorded by Rotten Tomatoes and received 8.6 out of a possible 10 points.

Hannah Pilarczyk from Spiegel Online writes that Greta Gerwig rearranged the story of the four March sisters so cleverly and short-circuited it with the work and biography of Louisa May Alcott that it feels excitingly new. Gerwig staged the ideal image of a white female youth without patina, but also without attempted modernization. She opposed universalism with a liberal feminism that celebrates individual excellence. This reinterpretation can be argued ideologically, but cinematically it works wonderfully.

Sidney Schering remarks that while previous Little Women adaptations have given little or no thought to taking into account the intimate to heated "shipper talk" that the Bildungsroman caused, Gerwig throws herself into her film adaptation with a passion for problem solving, but also with it Heartfelt admiration for the original, in this topic: "The Lady Bird filmmaker rearranges Little Women in the adaptation she wrote, and does so with passion and an intellectual eye for narrative parallels and dramaturgical ellipses." Attractive levels, as Gerwig's newly structured version of Little Women on the one hand allows a breath of fresh air, on the other hand he mentions the romantic aspect: “In her Little Women interpretation, Gerwig demonstrates a fabulous intuition for how the audience can be guided during storytelling, so that it endorses the love affairs, which in the end as a happy ending of the story e Because Gerwig tells Little Women non-chronologically, she also gives this costume drama a modern dynamic, according to Schering. He also notices the work of cinematographer Yorick Le Saux , who bathes the film in a soft light that lets the calm, atmospheric compositions speak for themselves, and the work of the composer Alexandre Desplat , which underlines the event with delicate, varied melodies that the The emotional state of what is shown reinforced without pushing into focus.

The budget of around 40 million US dollars is offset by worldwide income from cinema screenings of 209.1 million US dollars, of which the film grossed 108.1 million in North America alone. In Germany it has 501,839 visitors, which puts it at number 11 in the 2020 annual charts .

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film from the 8th grade for the subjects English, German , ethics , art and social studies and offers material for the film for the classroom. Birgit Roschy writes there that the four sisters, with their courage for self-realization, invite young people of today to identify with them. Based on this, the film offers starting points for social studies, ethics and history lessons for a consideration of the legal and social position of women from then to now.

Awards (selection)

The American Film Institute included the film in the Top 10 Best Movies of 2019. Below is a selection of other awards and nominations.

AACTA International Awards 2020

British Academy Film Awards 2020

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2020

Detroit Film Critics Society Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)

Golden Globe Awards 2020

Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2020

  • Nomination for the best film music (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Nomination for Best Director (Greta Gerwig)
  • Nomination for the best costumes (Jacqueline Durran)

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Score - Fiction (Alexandre Desplat)

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2020

  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
  • Nomination for Best British or Irish Actress (Florence Pugh)
  • Nomination for Best British or Irish Actress (Saoirse Ronan)
  • Nomination for the Technical Achievement Award (Jacqueline Durran for the costumes)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2019

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2020

Academy Awards 2020

Producers Guild of America Awards 2020

USC Scripter Awards 2020

Writers Guild of America Awards 2020

  • Nomination for the best adapted screenplay (Greta Gerwig)

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Sabine Kaever and the dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka on behalf of the Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke.

actor Voice actor role
Saoirse Ronan Lydia Morgenstern Jo March
Florence Pugh Marie-Isabel Walke Amy March
Emma Watson Gabrielle Pietermann Meg March
Timothée Chalamet Marco Eßer Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
Laura Dern Sabine Jaeger Marmee March
Eliza Scanlen Magdalena Höfner Beth March
Louis Garrel Tobias Nath Friedrich Bhaer
Meryl Streep Dagmar Dempe Aunt March
James Norton Jacob Weigert John Brooke
Tracy Letts Lutz Schnell Mr. Dashwood
Jayne Houdyshell Katharina Lopinski Hannah
Chris Cooper Jan Spitzer Mr. Laurence
Bob Odenkirk Tobias Lelle Father March
Abby Quinn Daniela Molina Annie Moffat
Tom Kemp Reinhard Scheunemann Asa Melvin
Lily Gavin Alma van Cauwelaert Dashwood daughter
Finola Weller Baldet Aurelia van Cauwelaert Dashwood daughter
Sophia Gialloreto Isabell Reiss Dashwood daughter
Anthony Estrella Nicolas Boell doctor
Adrianne Krstansky Judith Steinhäuser Mrs. Dashwood
Maryann Plunkett Sabine Walkenbach Mrs. Kirke
Hadley Robinson Lena Schmidtke Sallie Gardiner Moffat
JM Davis Harriet Kracht Susan Robbins

Web links

Individual evidence

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