2011NR

Leonie!

Name: Leonie!
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: 2011-08-01

For every parent who has ever had to deal with a difficult child, and for every difficult child who has ever had to deal with their parents.

DramaFamily1h 30m

🍅36%

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36%

Tomatometer

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53%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

In late 1800s France, a young bourgeoisie woman's difficult nature causes problems for her mother and the superiors in the monasteries she hopes to enter.

Details

DirectorJoseph Robert Maher

ReleasedAug 1, 2011

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

1 fresh · 5 rotten

Barbara VanDenburgh

RTArizona RepublicApr 18, 2013

It hits all the expected beats of a thoroughly vanilla biopic as an aging Leonie reflects on her unconventional life via plodding voiceover while doddering through a forest collecting berries.

Sheri Linden

RTLos Angeles TimesApr 12, 2013

As a portrait of female strength and a celebration of the artistic spirit, "Leonie" too seldom comes fully alive.

John Anderson

RTVarietyMar 25, 2013

Failing to carve anything graceful or fluid out of a slab of biography, helmer Hisako Matsui does bring to light a curious and intriguing story of a great-woman-behind-a-great-man in Leonie.

John Beifuss

RTCommercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)Jun 7, 2013

The movie is more enjoyable when pictures rather than words do the talking. Mortimer is wonderful, but her speeches are less memorable than the simple shots of Japanese flowers, fields and homes that Matsui uses as artistic grout to connect scenes.