What makes the photographer's story so compelling is that her life's work actually does come alive onscreen.
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06/12/09
Everlasting Moments (2009)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:22
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
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
Top CriticVeteran Swedish director Jan Troell loads the chronicle of a poor family in troubled times, 1907 through the late 1920s, with a powerful subtext about class, faith, artistic fulfillment and the mysteries of love.
06/12/09
Top CriticMischa 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
Top CriticA movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.
04/09/09
Top Critic[Director] Troell lovingly re-creates a time when socialism and Charlie Chaplin movies represented the ways forward, and he anchors his social panorama in the meek, stubborn stare of an unnoticed woman possessed with looking at everything.
04/02/09
Top CriticLet's come out and admit it: This is a square, conventional movie where every shot means what it means, with scant ambiguity or artistic license. Surrender to its conservative technique, though, and you'll be moved as well as entertained.
03/27/09
Top CriticEverlasting Moments offers such breadth and complexity it can be forgiven exceeding its grasp. In fact, it should be applauded for doing so.
03/27/09
Top CriticIt's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens.
03/26/09
Top CriticTroell's screenplay, as has often been the case with him, exists for the fullness of its texture, not for dramatic growth and resolution.
03/19/09
Top CriticPeriod movies with lots of sepia are usually soft in the head, but the nostalgic glow of Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments only adds to the clarity -- and wonder -- of its vision.
03/16/09
Top CriticThis is artful filmmaking of the old school.
03/13/09
Top CriticThere is a good deal of honest charm in this story, and in the three principal performances.
03/12/09
Top CriticRarely is there a film that evokes our sympathy more deeply than Everlasting Moments.
03/12/09
Top CriticEverlasting Moments is all staged as a harsh poem of survival, with no great psychological interest, yet the ending carries a surprise feminist tug that’s worth the wait.
03/11/09
Top CriticHeiskanen is a revelation as the put-upon wife, and the cinematography (some by Troell) effortlessly transports us back 100 years.
03/06/09
Top CriticReminiscent of Fanny and Alexander and rich in detail and story, this unhurried, novelistic movie is worth looking into.
03/06/09
Top CriticA rich, intensely human story that deals with the mysteries of creativity and love and the pain and joy of relationships.
03/06/09
Top CriticWatch closely, though, and you see that the filmmaker takes life in just as Maria does, with darting, piercing glances.
03/06/09
Top CriticJan 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 CriticPeriod pieces like this were once more popular than they are today. It is refreshing to see a solid one like this from time-to-time.
03/04/09
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