Everlasting Moments is simultaneously epic and poetic, mostly predictable but punctuated by breathtaking images.
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03/08/09
Everlasting Moments (2009)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:78
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
A profoundly moving, tender and engrossing drama filled with beautiful cinematography and stellar performances.
03/07/09
Heiskanen is a revelation as the put-upon wife, and the cinematography (some by Troell) effortlessly transports us back 100 years.
03/06/09
Reminiscent of Fanny and Alexander and rich in detail and story, this unhurried, novelistic movie is worth looking into.
03/06/09
A 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 CriticVividly brings to life a woman's point of view from the past, despite continual victimization frustrating to keep watching with her intermittent respites through photography.
03/06/09
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 CriticLike any old photograph of strangers, Everlasting Moments begins as just a bunch of samey faces, but getting to know the people in the picture makes all the difference.
03/05/09
As if culled from some infinite picture book from the early 1900s
03/05/09
This even-keel love story so deliberately unfolds that it seems fuller and longer, but not tiresomely so, than its 131 minutes.
03/05/09
A pretty piece of art, but the kind that's hermetically sealed and ready for a museum.
03/05/09
Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in.
03/05/09
Everlasting Moments will stun you with simple pleasures: a naturally lit kitchen; a country dance captured austerely from a respectful distance.
03/04/09
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
Period 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
Top CriticBoth sturdy and heart-breaking, a richly felt film with an epic sweep and an emotional palette tilted toward darker shades.
03/04/09
An extraordinary film by Swedish director Jan Troell about a poor working-class mother of seven who keeps her soul alive through nurturing her talent as a photographer.
03/03/09
Troell's lens doesn't consistently uncover the beauty and character we're asked to believe his heroine finds with hers.
03/02/09
The film's naturalistic performances and rough-hewn style carry it into a range of unfettered human emotion and experience appropriate to its evocative title.
02/27/09
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