I enjoyed this new film of a well known book and other movies very much indeed. I know this story so well, read the books a few times, saw the version with Janet Leigh, June Alyson, Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret O'Bryan, and decided to see it again with a few doubts. I need not have worried because I was in safe hands with Greta Gerwig. The imaginative blending of the story behind the story worked perfectly for me and the casting, about which I had had my doubts, was spot on, with one exception. Even this was allayed by the time I got to the end of the film. It was Professor Bhaer who annoyed me when he first made an appearance, all wrong for the short sighted middle aged stout professor of the book and previous films. By the end, when the clever blend of fact and fiction ended entirely satisfactorily, I thought yes Greta went the whole hog and not only made Jo marry, but gave her a handsome Latin husband, perhaps loves young dream! Result!
Review of Little Women
