A celebration of life and of women and their strength when they band together.

| Feb 12, 2024

A primer in the empowerment of women, not to mention a painterly, epic look at matriarchy.

| May 23, 2022

Gorris's work is impressive throughout, both in how she handles tonal shifts and builds a large cast of characters and weaves the story around them.

| Feb 25, 2021

The most energizing, uplifting, woman-positive film I've ever seen.

| Feb 26, 2020

[Antonia's Line] ultimately evolves into a familial epic covering three generations of independent women. It is fine storytelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2019

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.

| Nov 28, 2017

Antonia is a work of rare lyricism. It glows with the light of a Flemish painting and the spirit of magic realism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 4, 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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2016

There are a few moments of grating sentimentality, but these are balanced with a quirky humour and a mildly daring unpredictability.

| Oct 4, 2016

The movie is so pastorally lovely to look at, its characters so likable and its lulling rhythms so soothing that it's easy to forget that it's a lot of pleasant, plotless hooey.

| Oct 4, 2016

A hamfisted feminist parable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2016

The performances are modest and appealing. In the title role, Van Ammelrooy projects a remarkable combination of optimism, strength and resignation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2016

Antonia's Line perfectly fits the Oscar mold: set in the past, studiously PC, sentimental, multigenerational, and loaded with hollow ruminations on the nature of life, death, and the passage of time.

| Oct 4, 2016

The movie has the feel and flow of magic realism, and brilliant performances by Willeke van Ammelooy as the Earth Mother Antonia and Els Dottermans as her lesbian daughter are extremely vivid.

| Oct 4, 2016

It glides so easily over a multitude of events and characters that we're never jarred; Antonia and Bas make a winning alternative-community grandma and grandpa.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2016

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

| Oct 4, 2016

Morbid and overwrought.

| Oct 4, 2016

Poignant and pertinent, perhaps, but ultimately somewhat self-satisfied.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2016

Beautiful, tender, hearty and poetic.

| Oct 4, 2016

Antonia's Line is a Dutch treat that unfolds like a generous novel, surrounding you with its indelible sense of time, place and character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2016