Little Women review: Greta Gerwig's loving adaptation waltzes with a literary ghost

The film’s deep generosity cements it as a cinematic achievement, while also ensuring this won’t be the last adaptation we see

One of the year’s biggest cinematic curveballs occurs at the midway point of this stirring documentary. Billed as a film about small-town US skate culture, Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap grows into a haunting depiction of class and masculinity, and how once inseparable groups of friends tend to untangle and diverge as they come of age. Few of 2019’s films cast quite as long a shadow.The Farewell rips your heart out of your chest. Then it hands it back to you, wrapped gently in cotton wool.

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