Little Women 4K 2019 Ultra HD 2160p

Four different sisters grow up and search for their place in the world. Set during the American Civil War, their problems are intertwined with the era. Each of them has to experience love, loss and disappointment to find out exactly what she wants out of life.

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The March sisters - Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Amy (Florence Pugh) and Beth (Eliza Scanlen) - live on a decadent estate in Massachusetts during the American Civil War. With their loving mother (Laura Dern) they are waiting for their father (Bob Odenkirk) to return from the front, and in the meantime they are engaged in the most ordinary affairs of noble girls of the late 19th century - playing, going to balls and falling in love with a neighbor boy Theodore (Timothee Chalamet). Years later, fate will divorce the sisters in different cities and even countries, and rebellious Jo will try to write down on paper all their childhood adventures.

After the award-winning triumph of “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig - once an icon of post-mumblecore and Noah Baumback 's muse - became one of the world's most promising directors. It seems that she has only one step left for her to fully join the ranks of the assertive, young, and funky, and it is the most important one: the test of a second film, which is a stumbling block for seventy percent of cinematic prodigies. And the path Greta has chosen is not an easy one: she has taken to adapting the great novel “Little Women”, which, to put it bluntly, did not really need another film adaptation (the last full-length adaptation was released in 1994, and there was a mini-series in 2017).

At the same time, the choice is perfectly understandable: for all the difference in size and ambition, Louisa May Olcott's novel Little Women is a work homologous to Lady Bird. The same kind of coming-of-age drama based on childhood memories and a love postcard to a small homeland with a recitation of a woman's changing place in society. Only instead of a chamber story of one strange-looking girl - an epic tale about a whole family of Yankees of the Civil War times.

However, neither the increased number of characters nor the radical change of chronotope undermined Gerwig - purely directorially in Massachusetts at the end of the XIX century she feels as confident as in California (more or less) of our days. It's even surprising how well her easygoing indie style lends itself to a costume drama about the decline of the old aristocracy - in both stories, Greta is very precise in finding a similar rebellious nerve, and as a result, her Jo March looks like a direct relative (probably a great-grandmother) of Lady Bird. And no, it's not just that they're both played very similarly by Saoirse Ronan.

Gerwig's only problem is with time, a dimension with which she here engages in a curious but highly questionable game. May Olcott's novel, which unfolds over a period of seven years, is set in a jaunty, non-linear retelling, where the two eras are constantly interspersed, giving rise to time rhymes and unexpected correspondences. The approach is radical in its own way, but in the case of “Little Women”, it seems, not too appropriate - by dragging time in a flat circle, Gerwig deprives the story of the epic scope it needs. And distance, without which the heroines' long journey from adolescence to adulthood feels like a confused cascade of skits.

In addition, because of this decision arises another one - the heroines, jumping between scenes this interval of seven years, almost no change in appearance. And if in the case of the characters of Emma Watson and Sirsha Ronan it is forgivable (the difference between 16 and 23 years and should not be huge), but Florence Pugh, sitting at the same desk with thirteen-year-olds, looks at least ridiculous.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (65.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10+
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
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#Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
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#Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1

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