![]() ![]() ![]() She moves out and rents a freezing, unheated studio. “That’s not art,” he says dismissively of Jansson’s whimsical sketches of hippo-like trolls. At home their family life is bohemian, but it’s clear that Viktor is an authority-wielding paterfamilias. She jokes to friends that she is living in the bleak shadow of her famous sculptor father Viktor Jansson (Robert Enckell). Not for the first time she is swallowing the disappointment of being passed over for a government grant to support her painting – mostly traditional still lifes and portraits. A decade after Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914June 27, 2001) dreamt up her iconic Moomin series one of those works of philosophy disguised as children’s books, populated by characters with the soulful wisdom of The Little Prince, the genial sincerity of Winnie-the-Pooh, and the irreverent curiosity of the Peanuts she dreamt up Too. It begins with Jansson as a penniless artist in her 20s, with steady blue eyes and bluntly cropped short blond hair. 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. Covering a decade or so of Jansson’s life from the mid 1940s, it tells of her first madly-in-love relationship with a woman and the story of how her doodles on scraps of paper became a worldwide sensation. A quietly blazing and passionate performance by Alma Pöysti brings the bisexual Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson to life in this emotional but low-key drama directed by Zaida Bergroth. ![]()
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