On February 22, TV premiere of “Little Women”, with Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet

ROME – There are monuments of popular literature which, over time, also become a real point of reference for the great Hollywood productions. It is the case of the film “Little Women”, scheduled premiered on Rai 1 at 21.25 on Wednesday 22 February in its most recent creation.

The story is set in Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. The “little women” are the four March sisters: Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy. Against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the girls prepare to face life between small and large, personal and domestic dramas, and small and large personal ambitions. The enthralling emotional bearing of Louisa May Alcott’s novel has repeatedly convinced Hollywood producers to transpose the story to the big screen, which has therefore become a cornerstone of popular cinema. Even in this recent version of Greta Gerwigchosen as screenwriter and then director on the wave of her success “Lady Bird”work on the cast is at the center of production care: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen animate a lively and composed quartet, accompanied by “mamma” Laura Dern, in an accurate but in its own way also cheeky work, which manages to gracefully modernize the marked outline of Alcott’s novel. In the cast also the idol of the teenagers, and not only, Timothée Chalamet in the role of the family friend Laurie.

Gerwig’s work focuses on the need to propose the topicality and contemporaneity of the personal and family problems of Jo and her sisters. Critics and the public have agreed with the writing and production choices: many Oscar nominations, and a statuette for best costumes to Jacqueline Durran.