The three principal actors are powerfully effective, particularly Heiskanen.
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04/02/09
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
There are some quiet, keenly observed scenes of family life in Everlasting Moments, but they don't go anywhere, and ironically, the movie diagnoses the reason why.
03/27/09
Let'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
Everlasting 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
It's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens.
03/26/09
Top Critic...a film buff kind of movie that, unfortunately, won't make it to mainstream audiences.
03/20/09
Troell'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 CriticToo much suffering with too little change for 131 minutes makes for a sleepy film viewer even considering the loving care of the direction and acting
03/14/09
This is artful filmmaking of the old school.
03/13/09
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
It's filmmaking at its most factory routine, aimed at viewers who like "foreign films" filled with nice costumes.
03/13/09
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
Everlasting Moments unfolds over the decades, showing us a life not entirely transformed by photography but profoundly touched by it.
03/12/09
There 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 Critic...a family epic about the strength of a matriarch that will also recall such Hollywood films as "I Remember Mama" and "The Bridges of Madison County."
03/10/09
[Director] Troell, at 78, continues to turn out films that will last for as long as there are movies.
03/09/09
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