Paula

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Paula

2016

2h 3m

Drama

Biography

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57%

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7 Reviews

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The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

John Semley

Globe and Mail

03/03/2017

2.5/4

Paula offers a fine, feminist portrait of a young woman making her way in the world ... but fails to fully put across the range and uniqueness of its subject's gifts.

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Tori Brazier

One Room With A View

04/19/2019

2/5

Canevari aspires towards a low-key, naturalistic mood for Paula but misses the mark and lands in 'rather boring'.

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Andrea Thompson

Cultured Vultures

01/30/2019

3/10

There is nothing wrong with a woman wanting a family. But when any other option is presented as unthinkable, then we haven't made nearly as much progress as the movie Paula obviously thinks we have.

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Ezequiel Boetti

Otroscines.com

11/14/2017

3/5

Paula's struggle is therefore both a claim to gender and creative freedom, even when the cost is one's own life. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Paula Vázquez Prieto

La Nación (Argentina)

11/14/2017

His great success is to show the despair of the misunderstood...A reflection of that state of internal anxiety that is only reached when everything seems lost. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Gaspar Zimerman

Clarín

11/10/2017

In Paula, a biopic as instructive as conventional, Christian Schwochow draws an exhaustive portrait of the artist and her era. [Full review in Spanish]

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The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Director: Christian Schwochow
Producer: Barbara Buhl, Laurence Clerc, Christophe Friedel, Carolin Haasis, Ingelore König, Andreas Schreitmüller, Claudia Steffen, Annette Strelow, Olivier Thery-Lapiney
Screenwriter: Stephan Suschke, Stefan Kolditz
Production Co: Grown Up Films, Radio Bremen (RB), Arte, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Alcatraz Films, Degeto Film, Pandora Filmproduktion
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: German
Runtime: 2h 3m

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