Show Notes: Bonus Episode #5
Hi folks!
Thanks to listening to me and my co-producer Sammi discuss our love of the new Little Women film by Greta Gerwig. It was definitely a refreshing change after talking about The March Sisters at Christmas for our Excessively Diverted crossover episode.
Below you can find links to some articles Sammi and I mentioned or otherwise found interesting/relevant. If you’d like to compare and contrast, my retrospective review of the 1994 movie is here on The Spool, the wonderful film site run by our own Clint Worthington (John Brooke.)
“Opinion: The Bearable Whiteness of Little Women” by Kaitlyn Greenidge. “There is a fine line between a story that is about the worldview of a specific person and one that declares that this worldview is the only one that matters.” New York Times
“Little Women and the Marmee Problem” by Sarah Blackwood. “Laura Dern’s Marmee, in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women, responds archly to various idiocies offered by her husband, but the satisfactions of archness are short-lived.” The New Yorker
“Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Gives Amy March Her Due” by Shirley Li. “The youngest sister from Louisa May Alcott’s novel remains as spoiled as ever in the latest film adaptation. But she’s finally afforded the depth that’s missing from previous movies.” The Atlantic
“What Young Women Need to Know About Little Women” by Alexandra Starr. In exchange for vivid portraits of female characters’ lives, readers of Alcott’s novel had to endure a lot of harmful moralizing—which Greta Gerwig’s new movie version strips away. The Atlantic
“Greta Gerwig on the Lives of Little Women—And Why ‘Male Violence’ Isn’t All That Matters” by Greta Gerwig. The filmmaker, who drew on Louisa May Alcott’s life and letters, dives deep into a particularly resonant page of her script. Vanity Fair
We aren’t affiliated with the 2019 film in anyway, and we aren’t being paid to promote it. Any opinions are our own; we certainly don’t think we’re the end-all, be-all WORD on this piece of art of any other.
Thoughts? Questions? Contact us at littlewomenpodcast19@gmail.com.
— Shannon
