One is so used to seeing photographs of Tove Jansson in her middle age it comes as quite a shock to see her in her youth. Alma Poysti looks exactly right as both the gangling young Jansson and the mature woman with the artist's common frustration that the work that sells is not exactly what she'd set her heart on. For a celebrated children's writer the only really jarring note is her constant chain-smoking.
Review of Tove
