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Tove

Tove

2020
Drama, Biography
1h 43m
The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.
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Tove

2020
Drama, Biography
1h 43m
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Avg Percentile 42.46% from 44 total ratings

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Rated 02 Nov 2020
57
57th
Avoids most biopic cliches such as an underlying trauma that explains everything. Tove Jansson is portrayed with faults and all; the film doesn't try to hide her sexual tendencies or drinking. I admired the braveness, as there must have been a pressure to make a family film suitable for all Moomin fans. It just didn't quite grab me as I hoped. I wonder if some other part of her life would have been better suited as a film. In the end, it's Alma Pöysti as Tove that really stands out.
Rated 04 Jun 2021
52
37th
Honest and generic.
Rated 24 Oct 2021
50
27th
next tove biopic script for you: fighting old ladies on an island drinking booze, swearing in swedish, throwing crazy tantrums at each other like in all those late jansson plays and novels which have the true sarrautean serenity/claustrophobic dualism, the energy that is really emiting from tove. and if one want's this young struggling artist thing then make the bildhuggarens dotter in to a film
Rated 27 Oct 2021
73
52nd
Lingers in moments and feelings more than important events, and the approach works rather well.
Rated 26 Jun 2022
70
50th
This is a quirky, insightful biopic about the life of an intriguing person - writer and artist/cartoonist Tove Jansson. I was a fan of the Moomins as a kid - I remember watching the cartoon show on CBBC and so this film appealed to me, as I knew little about the creator. I could certainly understand her wanting a form of escapism from the war, as the characters were invented during WWII it'd seem. The LGBT aspect was also interesting. I thought the main character was portrayed well.
Rated 26 Oct 2023
60
18th
Well performed biopic of Tove (unknown to me) is a passable portrait of the artist at work; overall lacks a fire and intensity that should have been inherent in the material; echoes of PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE don’t really help matters, especially as this film lacks a galvanising moment to make all the mooning worthwhile, not to mention the source material itself which feels overly reminiscent of many similar “tortured artist” efforts. Kept afloat by engaging work from Pöysti and Kosonen.

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