This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.
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07/03/08
Forever (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 12
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Theatrical Release: 2007-09
Synopsis: Award-winning documentarian Heddy Honigmann (CRAZY) captures the spirit of Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery in this fascinating film. From Amadeo Modigliani to Jim Morrison, some of the world's greatest artists are buried there, and... [More]
Director: Heddy Honigmann
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Top Critic To be honest, a 90-minute documentary about a cemetery sounds about as exciting as spending 90 minutes in a cemetery. But surprisingly, Forever turns out to be a much-better film than that would suggest.
05/29/08
What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.
09/20/07
Top Critic Honigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.
09/18/07
Top Critic Achieves something more resonant than a Solemn Affirmation of the Immortal Spirit of Art.
09/18/07
Top Critic Without digging up a single rotting, worm-infested corpse or skeleton, Honigmann's lovely, elegant meditation nevertheless exposes haunting truths about Père-Lachaise and the visitors who fill it with such incongruous life and vivacity.
09/14/07
Honigmann's subtle asides -- moody cuts to mournful statuary, insects crawling over tombs -- all speak to her art-is-immortal theme.
09/13/07
Top Critic Netherlands-based filmmaker Heddy Honigmann uses the famed necropolis as a means of looking how artistic inspiration continues to live on long after the artist's death.
09/12/07
Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmann's frustrating documentary Forever.
09/12/07
Top Critic For anyone who has had the pleasure of walking through the Père Lachaise but struggled to elucidate its inexplicable appeal, Heddy Honigmann's documentary is enlightening without being demystifying.
09/09/07
Internationally revered documentarian Heddy Honigmann lends her voice to this heartbreakingly beautiful exposition on the enduring nature of art that takes place almost entirely in the famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
08/30/07
One of those rare docs capable of holding its own in an official selection of fiction films.
07/31/07
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