Fresh
What makes the photographer's story so compelling is that her life's work actually does come alive onscreen.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
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Everlasting Moments
Overview
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Director and cast
- Jan Troell Director
- Maria Heiskanen as Maria Larsson
- Mikael Persbrandt as Sigfrid Larsson
- Jesper Christensen as Sebastian Pedersen
- Emil Jensen as Englund
- Callin Öhrvall as Maja Larsson (age 15-22)
- Nellie Almgren as Maja Larsson (age 8-10)
- Birte Heribertsson as Maja Larsson (narration) / Aunt Tora
- Birte Heribertson as Maja Larsson (narration) / Aunt Tora
- Ghita Nørby as Miss Fagerdal
- Amanda Ooms as Matilda
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Veteran 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.
Greg Quill, Toronto Star
Fresh
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.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Troell's film meshes scenes of high drama and silent contemplation while the milky, sepia-toned Super16 photography lends the images an exquisite, tactile quality.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh
A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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