Review of Antonia's Line (1995) by Yas C — 08 Sep 2007

As a Dutchie I can't help but LOVE this movie. Received Acadamy Award for best foreign film. If you haven't seen it, please do!

This review of Antonia's Line (1995) was written by Yas C on 08 Sep 2007.

Antonia's Line has generally received very positive reviews.

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Oct 2016

I didn't much take to this humorless, Oscar-winning 1995 feminist fable…

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By Howard Kissel (1) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 03 Oct 2016

Antonia's Line is enjoyable because it is never preachy. It depicts, with a painterly eye, a pagan world that has not changed since Breughel…

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By Luiserghio M (237) on 22 Mar 2010

Stirring, multi-generational saga of women coping with the violence that men have wrought…

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By Paul Z (502) on 18 Mar 2012

With the tints and flourishes of a fable and the idyllic eccentricity of a pastoral dream, it follows one stalwart woman and her gifted descendants,…

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By Michael B (2,768) on 03 Feb 2013

Another reviewer objects to the reliance on exposition in Antonia's Line while I wonder if he dislikes Jules et Jim, Like Water for Chocolate…

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By Jane E (14) on 09 Sep 2011

Antonia's Line is a quirky and whimsical story of Antonia with themes on love, family, and community that also gently explores topics on feminism…

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By Todd Anthony (129) for New Times (467) on 03 Oct 2016

Antonia's Line perfectly fits the Oscar mold: set in the past, studiously PC, sentimental, multigenerational, and loaded with hollow ruminations…

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By Mukul K (1) on 03 Jan 2016

Antonia's line is indeed a true celebration of life. A well crafted film. It's a film with excellent narrative and a well-woven script…

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By Christian G (252) on 18 Mar 2009

Cinematic perfection. This brilliant epic about the lineage of a charismatic matriarch is rightfully categorized as a feminist film…

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By Chris Peachment (20) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 28 Nov 2017

It's a broad historical saga of great warmth, but it would have been more convincing if it didn't have feminist agenda stamped all over it…

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