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Becoming Astrid pays tribute to a beloved character's creator with a biopic that proves the story behind the scenes is just as timelessly engaging.
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The director is able to show the adolescence of the author as an antecedent of what her work would be. [Full Review in Spanish April 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The director is able to show the adolescence of the author as an antecedent of what her work would be. [Full Review in Spanish
Alberto Bermejo
Feminist without thick strokes or without fuss in the staging, the film sets its sights on the fixity and the loss of a passionate character. [Full Review in Spanish] March 29, 2019 | Full Review…
Feminist without thick strokes or without fuss in the staging, the film sets its sights on the fixity and the loss of a passionate character. [Full Review in Spanish]
Javier Ocaña
A modern, emotional, tender and courageous story. [Full review in Spanish] March 25, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A modern, emotional, tender and courageous story. [Full review in Spanish]
Irene Crespo
Pernille Fischer Christensen crafts an incisive, engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman. March 1, 2019 | Full Review…
Pernille Fischer Christensen crafts an incisive, engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman.
Loren King
(Alba) August brightens the screen with a performance that begins full of youthful excitement...and then matures right before our eyes. January 13, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
(Alba) August brightens the screen with a performance that begins full of youthful excitement...and then matures right before our eyes.
Michael Ward
Anchored by a brilliant performance by Alba August, this is a charming-yet-realistic small gem of a film. December 14, 2018 | Full Review…
Anchored by a brilliant performance by Alba August, this is a charming-yet-realistic small gem of a film.
Diane Pershing
It's more about the evolution of an attitude, a mindset, and a philosophy on life than a single book or character. December 7, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's more about the evolution of an attitude, a mindset, and a philosophy on life than a single book or character.
Mark Dujsik
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. December 6, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Josh Kupecki
Director and co-writer Pernille Fischer Christensen has crafted a powerful coming of age story that is also a story of how society slowly transforms. December 6, 2018 | Full Review…
Director and co-writer Pernille Fischer Christensen has crafted a powerful coming of age story that is also a story of how society slowly transforms.
Peg Aloi
Throughout "Becoming Astrid," August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive. December 6, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Throughout "Becoming Astrid," August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.
Michael Phillips
Alba August is incredible as the world-renowned Pippi Longstocking author, but #BecomingAstrid also finds an engaging and completely organic manner of foretelling how outstanding and resonant with children a writer she would become December 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Alba August is incredible as the world-renowned Pippi Longstocking author, but #BecomingAstrid also finds an engaging and completely organic manner of foretelling how outstanding and resonant with children a writer she would become
Robert Kojder
Though "Becoming Astrid" is unflinching in its depictions of Astrid's pain, it does not wallow. A shallower story would be rife with villains, but there are none here. November 29, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Though "Becoming Astrid" is unflinching in its depictions of Astrid's pain, it does not wallow. A shallower story would be rife with villains, but there are none here.
Barbara VanDenburgh
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