Little Women (2019 Greta Gerwig & scr)

She's scrambled up the time line, but otherwise pretty much left it alone. Is there a bit more of an independent woman slant than other versions? You'd hope so, but I'm not sure, though I did like seeing the book being printed and her negotiations with the publisher.

Good acting from Saiorse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Timothée Chalamet, supported by Emma Watson and Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Meryl Streep.

Saiorse won her fourth Oscar nomination, Florence her first. A refreshing number of Brits in the cast, and Frenchmen behind the camera - an international set. Good photography (Yorick Le Saux) and music (Alexandre Desplat) 

Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel has been filmed several times - in 1918, 1933 (With Katherine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), 1949 (Elizabeth Taylor), 1994 (Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes), 2017 (TV series) and 2018 (a modernization).