Little Women

3/28/2024

**A different version of the usual story. Maybe less memorable, but different.** Louisa May Alcott's classic novel has received several film and TV adaptations over the decades. Some are more significant than others, and this is definitely one of the smallest, but perhaps the most creative I've seen, opting to give us an updated, refreshed version of the story as always. At a time when literary classics are treated as “sacred cows” by cinema purists (at the same time that, paradoxically, “politically correct” versions of the books are presented, without the expressions and words that the authors wrote, but which we don't like it), it's innovative and courageous to do something different, even if it's a weaker work. Like many people who do not speak English as their native language, I