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No. / 1 Little Women — as you’ve never seen it before

AFTER THE RUNAWAY success of teen comedy-drama , her 2017 directorial debut, nobody expected Oscar-nominated indie darling Greta Gerwig to do a period drama. Except, that is, Greta Gerwig, who had been thinking about an adaptation of — the classic coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott about,” Gerwig reveals. “I wasn’t sure about it. But it just kept coming up in my consciousness.”

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