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  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 3 m

Summary The 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 leav...

Directed By: Pernille Fischer Christensen

Written By: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen

  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 3 m

Becoming Astrid

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary The 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 leav...

Directed By: Pernille Fischer Christensen

Written By: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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90
Nov 27, 2018
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.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
88
Dec 5, 2018
Throughout Becoming Astrid, August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 28, 2018
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.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 5, 2018
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.
By Barbara VanDenburgh FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 20, 2018
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.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 5, 2018
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.
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50
Nov 17, 2018
Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
7.2
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Production Company Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB, Avanti Film, Film i Väst, TV4, Nordisk Film Production, DCM Pictures, Det Danske Filminstitut
Release Date Nov 23, 2018
Duration 2 h 3 m
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Tagline Be the author of your own story.
Website https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/becoming-astrid/
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Awards

Guldbagge Awards
• 6 Nominations
Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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