Paula

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Paula

2016

2h 3m

Drama

Biography

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7 Reviews

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The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

John Semley

Globe and Mail

Mar 3, 2017

2.5/4

Paula offers a fine, feminist portrait of a young woman making her way in the world ... but fails to fully put across the range and uniqueness of its subject's gifts.

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Tori Brazier

One Room With A View

Apr 19, 2019

2/5

Canevari aspires towards a low-key, naturalistic mood for Paula but misses the mark and lands in 'rather boring'.

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Andrea Thompson

Cultured Vultures

Jan 30, 2019

3/10

There is nothing wrong with a woman wanting a family. But when any other option is presented as unthinkable, then we haven't made nearly as much progress as the movie Paula obviously thinks we have.

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Ezequiel Boetti

Otroscines.com

Nov 14, 2017

3/5

Paula's struggle is therefore both a claim to gender and creative freedom, even when the cost is one's own life. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Paula Vázquez Prieto

La Nación (Argentina)

Nov 14, 2017

His great success is to show the despair of the misunderstood...A reflection of that state of internal anxiety that is only reached when everything seems lost. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Gaspar Zimerman

Clarín

Nov 10, 2017

In Paula, a biopic as instructive as conventional, Christian Schwochow draws an exhaustive portrait of the artist and her era. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Director: Christian Schwochow
Producer: Barbara Buhl, Laurence Clerc, Christophe Friedel, Carolin Haasis, Ingelore König, Andreas Schreitmüller, Claudia Steffen, Annette Strelow, Olivier Thery-Lapiney
Screenwriter: Stephan Suschke, Stefan Kolditz
Production Co: Grown Up Films, Radio Bremen (RB), Arte, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Alcatraz Films, Degeto Film, Pandora Filmproduktion
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: German
Runtime: 2h 3m

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