Tove, about Finnish artist, and Moomins creator, Tove Jansson, will open the 44th Göteborg Festival Jan. 28.
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Alma Poysti stars in this Finnish biopic as Tove Jansson, the complicated woman who created the Moomins.
For non-Nordic viewers who only know of Tove Jansson as a name attached to the cuddly, dumpling-shaped creatures called the Moomins mid-20th-century comic strip trolls resembling hippopotami, composed of negative space and living in some kind of tundra-adjacent landscape the engaging biopic
Tove will offer some interesting surprises. Not only was Moomins creator Jansson, played with moxie by theater actor Alma Poysti, the libidinous and unconventional black sheep of an already bohemian artistic family, but she also was bisexual. Covering Jansson s formative adult years, from just before the end of World War II to the 1950s,