Everyone knows this story, the lives of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th century. This film, the seventh, adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott, is beautiful. The characters are endearing, the colours amazing, switching between warm and cold colours to reflect the past and the present, and what an impressive cast. I have not yet read the novel but there is a very feminist thread throughout the film that is very touching. A delightful film for the first day of the year.
“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely.”