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- 2021
- Juno Films
- 1 h 43 m
- 2021
- Juno Films
- 1 h 43 m
Summary Set from 1944 to 1956, the Swedish-language film shows how painter Tove Jansson finds worldwide success from an unexpected side project, in the midst of artistic struggles and an unconventional personal life.
Directed By: Zaida Bergroth
Written By: Eeva Putro, Jarno Elonen
- 2021
- Juno Films
- 1 h 43 m
- 2021
- Juno Films
- 1 h 43 m
Tove
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Summary Set from 1944 to 1956, the Swedish-language film shows how painter Tove Jansson finds worldwide success from an unexpected side project, in the midst of artistic struggles and an unconventional personal life.
Directed By: Zaida Bergroth
Written By: Eeva Putro, Jarno Elonen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
63
50% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Marking her fifth feature, Bergroth flexes her considerable cinematic powers, conjuring vibrantly expressive visuals and confident performances from her talented cast, especially the petite theater thesp Pöysti, who excels in her first leading film role and strongly resembles the real Tove.
Poysti’s subtle, layered performance conveys Tove’s complex dilemma with sweetness and pain. This is a portrait not of a lady on fire, but of a woman struggling to strike the match.
Whereas Cruella sent me back to Dodie Smith, as a blessed escape from what Disney has done to her creations, Tove dispatched me down a rabbit hole, or through a Moomin door. I recommend the trip.
Alma Pöysti is luminous as Jansson, bringing to life her playful, pleasure-seeking artist’s spirit.
This is a rather conventional artist’s biopic for an unconventional person and it’s a film that ends as suddenly (and frustratingly) as it begins.
Where biopics often end up with a cardboard-tasting blandness, the focus on Jansson’s interior world gives this film moments that really come to life.
The soft-focus cinematography is beautiful but drippy, and this general tendency toward mushy melodramatics presents an unflattering contrast to the sharp-lined vivacity that Jansson brought to the page.
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Production Company
Helsinki-Filmi,
Anagram,
Nordisk Film,
Yleisradio (YLE),
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Business Finland,
Eurimages,
Finlands Filmstiftelse,
Föreningen Konstsamfundet,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Svenska Kulturfonden
Release Date Jun 4, 2021
Duration 1 h 43 m
Website
http://klockworx-v.com/tove/
Awards
Jussi Awards
• 7 Wins & 10 Nominations
Göteborg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
OUTshine Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
