Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Maria HeiskanenMaria Larsson
- Mikael PersbrandtSigfrid Larsson
- Jesper ChristensenSebastian Pedersen
- Emil JensenEnglund
- Callin ÖhrvallMaja Larsson (age 15-22)
- Nellie AlmgrenMaja Larsson (age 8-10)
- Birte HeribertsonMaja Larsson (narration) / Aunt Tora
- Ghita NørbyMiss Fagerdal
- Amanda OomsMatilda
- Hans Henrik ClemensenMr. Fagerdal
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Artistically on a plane with or near the vet filmmaker's best work, this period drama about a woman slowly discovering her metier is an artisanal creation par excellence. - 90
Wall Street Journal
This exquisite film by the Swedish master Jan Troell is about seeing clearly, and fearlessly. It's also about subdued passion, the birth of an artist and a woman's struggle to live her own life. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
An affecting film that manages to find glimmers of beauty in the encroaching bleakness, and coaxing richly dimensional performances which, like Maria's photographs, transcend the conventionally black and white. - 80
The New York Times
The result is an experience that, even as it feels a bit familiar, is nonetheless engrossing and satisfying. - 75
ReelViews
There's something old-fashioned about Everlasting Moments. Although the shots are beautifully composed, they are classically represented. Both the filmmaking methods and the storytelling are uncomplicated. - 75
The A.V. Club
Heiskanen plays her layers beautifully, alternately revealing a talented artist stymied by poverty and marital problems, and a woman fiercely devoted to family first. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
On a narrative level, Troell seems to occasionally take on more than he can handle; from time to time he leans toward an ensemble approach, with multiple, intersecting stories, but the film lacks the length to sustain this, so we are left with fragments of substories that never fully blossom. - 70
Chicago Reader
In the films of Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land), ordinary lives assume epic dimensions, and this drama, based on the experiences of his wife's protofeminist grandmother, doesn't sugarcoat the hardships of the early 1900s.
