It's filmmaking at its most factory routine, aimed at viewers who like "foreign films" filled with nice costumes.
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03/13/09
Everlasting Moments (2009)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:79
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Elegant and intimate, Everlasting Moments moves at the deliberate and gentle pace of a classical European period drama.
Theatrical Release:Mar 6, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $367,276
Synopsis: In this breathtaking film from renowned Swedish director Jan Troell, a woman experiences an artistic awakening after being introduced to photography. Based on real-life events, the story opens at... [More]
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Jesper Christensen, Mikael Persbrandt, Ghita Norby
Director: Jan Troell
Reviews for Everlasting Moments
God, it’s dull. Tasteful, to be sure; the movie would sit perfectly in a Sunday night slot reserved for BBC period adaptations.
05/22/09
Heiskanen is a revelation as the put-upon wife, and the cinematography (some by Troell) effortlessly transports us back 100 years.
03/06/09
This film lovingly celebrates the wonders of technology that we now take for granted.
05/22/09
Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments is a film whose title gives a clue about the kind of mood it wants to create.
03/06/09
Top CriticTold with delicacy and feeling Everlasting Moments slowly builds into a memorable salute to a remarkable life.
05/22/09
Suggests that bad behavior can be corrected with ten years of patience -- a choice that can be read as either false uplift or honest murk.
03/09/09
Mischa Gavrjusjov keys the camera work to the characters' moods, inky blacks portending a thunderous alcoholic outburst, golden washes signaling the heroine's late blooming.
05/29/09
Shot in atmospheric sepia tones, this is a modest film with gentle, pleasing sentiments at its heart.
05/22/09
Superficially interesting in many ways but this doesn't really engage on a deeper level.
05/22/09
It's a mark of Troell's mastery that we could happily have borne another half-hour of his mesmerising yarn.
05/22/09
It’s through Troell’s sense of the landscape and seasons and his attention to gender sensibilities that Everlasting Moments represents the height of filmmaking technology and emotional sophistication.
03/04/09
A profoundly moving, tender and engrossing drama filled with beautiful cinematography and stellar performances.
03/07/09
Troell's lens doesn't consistently uncover the beauty and character we're asked to believe his heroine finds with hers.
03/02/09
Troell's profound insistence that life -- even in its most miserable chapters -- is an occasion for rejoicing, goes beyond gender politics to a place of transcendent sublimity.
03/12/09
Places its bets on illuminating the imperfect ways in which love, economics and artistry rule lives -- back then and, probably not much differently, now.
03/13/09
A haunting, beautiful movie about small, emotional movements set against a backdrop of national change.
03/13/09
A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.
04/09/09
Top CriticThe film is exquisitely shot. Yet something’s missing. The figures in Maria’s photographs are uncannily substantial. The characters in the film, by comparison, seem like fragrant ghosts.
05/22/09
As if culled from some infinite picture book from the early 1900s
03/05/09
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