RCB Film Club – ‘TOVE’, FINLAND

Directed by Zaida Bergroth

Running Time: 1 Hr 43 Mins

Subtitles: English

Venue: RCB Forum, 2nd Floor, River City Bangkok

‘TOVE’ is a biopic of Tove Jansson, the Swedish-speaking Finnish artist, author and illustrator best-known for the wonderful Moomin comic-strips that made her globally famous. At its peak, Moomin appeared in over 40 countries and in around 120 papers, and had a daily readership of around 20 million, making it the most successful Finnish comic strip ever published! It comes as no surprise that the Thai translations of the books and comic-strips have been wildly successful here as well.

The movie begins with Tove experimenting with different art forms in the years following the aftermath of WWII. Her foremost quest was freedom, and so she worked in every medium available to her — across painting, portraiture and illustration — much to the disappointment of her conservative father, a well-known sculptor.

She began making illustrations and never stopped. Tove Jansson came into her own when her illustrations, the Moomin characters, were brought to life on the pages of her comic strips, which the kids just loved! The rest is history.

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