Greta Gerwig is a talented American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. The attention she received for BARBIE last year may never be topped. But Nights and Weekends in 2008, although not as widely known, was co-directed, co-written, and co-produced by Gerwig.
Lady Bird is her 2017 critically acclaimed coming-of-age comedy-drama film that Gerwig wrote and directed. It stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.
Little Women (2019) is my favorite adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. It also stars Saoirse Ronan, and what a tremendous cast including Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper.
Little Women grossed $108.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $110.8 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $218.9 million, against a production budget of $40 million.
Little Women received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an approval rating of 95% based on 439 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website’s critics consensus reads: “With a stellar cast and a smart, sensitive retelling of its classic source material, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women proves some stories truly are timeless.” On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 91 out of 100 based on 57 critics, indicating “universal acclaim.”
While the film overall received six Academy Award nominations, as with Barbie, Gerwig was not nominated for Best Director, which was deemed a snub in bot cases. Allison Pearson of The Telegraph labeled this a “whole new standard of idiocy”, opining that it “belittles women’s experience.” That is echoed by Slate‘s Dana Stevens who theorized that Academy members believe that “women can only have a little recognition, as a treat” and that Gerwig “may now safely be ignored” since she had been previously nominated for Lady Bird.
Milneville 