As a tale about Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen), a blossoming photographer at the turn of the twentieth century, director Jan Troell's feature
Everlasting Moments has an apt and clever title. The meaning is twofold: it refers to the central character's desire to capture "everlasting moments" with her camera, but the film itself also leaves its most indelible impressions on the audience as a series of striking visual and aurally enhanced moments that populate the screen only occasionally, standing out like embossments from the cold and repressed Scandinavian world that we are handed. The said images are manifold, from a canopied forest path with sunlight cascad...
Released:
2008
Rated:
n/a
Length:
125 mins