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Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
26 September 1973, Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
10 January 1967
15 April 1972, Odense, Denmark
February 28, 2019
Pernille Fischer Christensen crafts an incisive, engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman.
November 28, 2018
Pippi Longstocking has sometimes been called an icon of feminist girl-power. If "Becoming Astrid' makes anything clear, it's that the character's creator was something of one herself.
November 23, 2018
This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.
December 06, 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.
November 22, 2018
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.
December 06, 2018
It's more about the evolution of an attitude, a mindset, and a philosophy on life than a single book or character.
December 06, 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.
December 14, 2018
Anchored by a brilliant performance by Alba August, this is a charming-yet-realistic small gem of a film.
January 13, 2019
(Alba) August brightens the screen with a performance that begins full of youthful excitement...and then matures right before our eyes.
December 06, 2018
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.
November 29, 2018
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 21, 2018
Christensen portrays Lindgren as a born storyteller but delves into the vital time in her development when confounding expectation gave way to building her own narrative.
