Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid)
Cuando Astrid Lindgren era muy joven, algo que afectó aquí fundamentalmente sucedió, una combinación de milagros y contratiempos que llegaron a moldear toda su vida. Fue un evento que la convirtió en una de las mujeres más innovadoras de nuestro tiempo y la narradora que todo el mundo llegó a amar. Esta es la historia de cuando la joven Astrid, a pesar de las expectativas de los tiempos y las órdenes religiosas, decidió romper las normas de la sociedad y seguir su corazón. Young Astrid es una interpretación gratuita de los acontecimientos de la vida temprana de Astrid Lindgren, guión escrito por Kim Fupz Aakeson y Pernille Fischer Christensen.
September 2, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark
February 4, 1953 in Alster, Värmlands län, Sweden
26 September 1973, Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
February 28, 2019
Pernille Fischer Christensen crafts an incisive, engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman.December 14, 2018
Anchored by a brilliant performance by Alba August, this is a charming-yet-realistic small gem of a film.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.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.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.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.November 23, 2018
This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.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.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.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.