Tove Jansson’s Moomins on the Riviera

The new animated film retells a 60-year-old story of the curious characters that's still relevant today

100 years ago Finnish novelist, illustrator and painter Tove Jansson—creator of cult comic strip family the Moomins—was born. Since the first Moomin strip was published in 1945, their stories have been filmed for TV plenty of times, but it’s only now that one of the comic strips has been adapted into a film. “Moomins on the Riviera” (which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival …