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Forever (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 12

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

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... 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 FOREVER explores this site visited by both fans and family of the departed. [More]

Director: Heddy Honigmann

Director: Heddy Honigmann
Screenwriter: Heddy Honigmann, Ester Gould
Producer: Carmen Cobos
Studio: First Run/Icarus Films

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This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.

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07/03/08
Alan G. Artner
Chicago Tribune
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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.

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05/29/08
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.

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09/20/07
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Honigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.

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09/18/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Achieves something more resonant than a Solemn Affirmation of the Immortal Spirit of Art.

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09/18/07
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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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.

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09/14/07
Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club
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Honigmann's subtle asides -- moody cuts to mournful statuary, insects crawling over tombs -- all speak to her art-is-immortal theme.

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09/13/07
John Anderson
Newsday
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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.

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09/12/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmann's frustrating documentary Forever.

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09/12/07
Rachel Saltz
New York Times
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[A film with] power to stir a memory of beauty beheld and shared.

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09/12/07
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
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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.

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09/09/07
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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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.

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08/30/07
Sara Schieron
Boxoffice Magazine
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One of those rare docs capable of holding its own in an official selection of fiction films.

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07/31/07
Deborah Young
Variety
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