The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 5 – Little Women
An instant five-star classic, Greta Gerwig’s revisionist look at the March sisters is the definition of a festive spirit-raiser
I hadn’t really been looking forward to Little Women. I didn’t love the book, nor the other four film versions, nor the innumerable times it’s been adapted for telly. Even more sacrilegiously, I didn’t much like Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s previous Saoirse Ronan/Timothée Chalamet love-in. My Chalamet allergy, kept in abeyance at that stage by his scant airtime, has considerably worsened in the two years since.