This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.
Becoming Astrid(Unga Astrid)
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Sweden, Denmark · 2018
2h 3m
Director Pernille Fischer Christensen
Starring Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm, Henrik Rafaelsen
Genre Drama
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When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Erik Molberg Hansen’s relaxed camera movements and fuzzy-soft compositions are quite beautiful, and the performances — including the superb Trine Dyrholm as the baby’s Danish foster mother — are pitch-perfect. Best of all is the magnetic August, whose open, mobile features can slide from plain to lovely with just a shift in the light and whose embrace of the character is a joy to watch.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
This familiar-sounding melodrama works because of the extraordinary performance, in the title role, by Alba August, a young actress whose every emotion is made manifest, like passing clouds or a burst of sunshine, on her uncannily expressive face.
Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
The film’s occasional flatness of tone isn’t always well-used — these may be the raw materials for a classic Hollywood weepie, but sometimes you want to see filmmaking, not a camera pointed in the general direction of who’s talking.
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