Becoming Astrid (2018) on Netflix
Astrid Lindgren grows up on her family's farm in Småland and takes an internship at the local newspaper. There she falls for the chief editor, Reinhold Blomberg, thirty years her senior.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.1/107,889 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
Astrid Lindgren is shown growing up with her parents, a brother and two sisters in the countryside near Vimmerby Sweden on their farm, from age 16 up: going to church, attending dances, helping on the farm. She is offered an internship with the local newspaper after they published her essay. She has an affair with the unhappily married and older newspaper editor. When she becomes pregnant, he sends her to Stockholm for secretarial school. She gives birth in Denmark so as to help him avoid divorce complications. She ultimately decides not to marry him. She falls out with her family over her decision to keep her child and not leave him with his foster mother. She continues working as a secretary in Stockholm in an auto club and finally affords her own flat. When her boy finally comes to live with her, he is several years old. Finally in the end,, she reconciles with her family and they welcome their grandson home to visit.
Cast
- Marius Damslevas Lasse tre år
- Liv LeMoyneas Saga
- Maria Fahl Vikanderas Astrid (1987)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Becoming Astrid (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Astrid Lindgren's daughter Karin Nyman publicly criticised Becoming Astrid, saying Lindgren would have felt enormous reluctance for such a film and that the relationship with editor Reinhold Blomberg, her son's birth and his foster-home stay were private matters she never wanted focused on; Nyman compared it to biopics of Winston Churchill and Björn Borg.
