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

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

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

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

In the title role, Van Ammelrooy provides a strong center to the rambling story, both feminine and authoritative.

| Feb 6, 2009

Antonia's Line is a masterpiece. I say that even though I found the first 10 minutes ho-hum. By the time the movie was half over, I was hoping it would never end.

Full Review | May 8, 2007

A vibrant saga, from the firebrand writer/director of A Question of Silence, combining feminist rigour with an involving dynastic narrative.

| Jun 24, 2006

Slow-moving, goofy and goodhearted.

| Jun 5, 2002

This is the rare film that does actually succeed in suggesting the experience of a lifetime.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's an ambitious project, this telling of a whole life as well as its consequences, and Gorris manages to pull it off.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Even if [Gorris] is too optimistic, I am glad her movie made me feel hopeful and cheerful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A feminist fable for all time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

With the tone of a fable and the lulling bucolic look of a pastoral fantasy, it tells of one strong woman and her talented descendants, all blessed with self-sufficiency and remarkably little need for men in their lives.

| Jan 1, 2000

The winning charm of the lead characters and their glorious triumph over convention conspire to weave a magical movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Antonia is obviously our point person here, but she's such a sour pickle that you never get to ease into her story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Odd feminist fun.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000