SummaryThe teenaged Astrid Lindgren (Alba August) leads a carefree life with her family in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her strict religious upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor, Blomberg (Henrik Rafaelsen). When Astrid becomes pregnant, she is forced to leave her chi... Read More
Directed By:Pernille Fischer Christensen
Written By:Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen
Becoming Astrid
Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
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Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
63% Positive
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Nov 27, 2018
90
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.
Dec 5, 2018
88
Throughout Becoming Astrid, August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.
Nov 28, 2018
75
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.
Dec 5, 2018
70
This is not a flat and lifeless biopic in which a creation loses a bit of its wonder in the dissection of its inspiration. “Becoming Astrid” sidesteps that pitfall by focusing on the writer’s painful passage into womanhood, telling an intimate and unhurried story of quiet triumph over pain.
Nov 20, 2018
60
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.
Dec 5, 2018
50
Becoming Astrid’s saving grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic.
Nov 17, 2018
50
Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
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Generally Favorable
7.3
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Nov 26, 2018
7
It is a biopic about young years of one of the best children book writer Astrid Lindren, the author of many famous books like "Pippi Longstocking", "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" and many others.
The movie reveals intricate relationship young Astrid had with her conservative parents followed by multiple challenges in her young adult years. Authors tried to show how Astrid's literary talents developed but they managed to do so only partially.
Professionally the film is made very well, from excellent performances to great cinematography and casting. It is long (more than 2 hours) but I did not feel it.
Nevertheless, after the movie ended, I did not have an impression that this young woman was to become one the best and most loved kids' writer.
Production Company:
- Nordisk Film Production Sverige
- Avanti Film
- Film i Väst
- TV4
- Nordisk Film Production
- DCM Pictures
- Det Danske Filminstitut
Release Date:Nov 23, 2018
Duration:2 h 3 m
Tagline:Be the author of your own story.
Awards
Guldbagge Awards
• 6 Nominations
Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
