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Forever (2007)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2

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"Forever" is a film about power and the vitality of art, about a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Pere-Lachaise - one of the world's most famous cemeteries - is the final resting place for a gifted group of artists from various periods in history and virtually all corners of the world. Some, such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin, are still worshipped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited only

Apr 21, 2009

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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)

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

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.

September 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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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.

September 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
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Achieves something more resonant than a Solemn Affirmation of the Immortal Spirit of Art.

September 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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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.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
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Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmann's frustrating documentary Forever.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Experiencing art beyond the grave

July 22, 2009 Full Review Source: JWR | Comment

meditative and measured

April 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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At times a little pretentious, but a reasonable, not perfect, meditation on art and beauty and the relation of the living artist with the dead who have contributed to his art.

April 6, 2009 Full Review | Comment
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It's a surprisingly upbeat and moving film considering it's set at a cemetery.

March 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

May 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

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.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

[A film with] power to stir a memory of beauty beheld and shared.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

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.

September 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

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.

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
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Every scene is memorable, including the opening one where director Heddy Honigmann sticks up her snooty Euro cosmopolitan nose at Americans in general and Jim Morrison in particular.

June 22, 2009
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