Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment)

Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2008)

  • 91% of critics liked it
    (98 reviews)

  • 83% of users liked it
    (4,029 ratings)

In a series of remarkable events inspired by a true story, Maria Heiskanen stars as Maria Larsson, a Finnish mother and housewife who devotes all of her attention, care, and consideration to the well-being of her family -- but, like many homemakers, does so at the expense of her own identity and… More

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Unrated, 2 hr. 5 min.
Directed By
Jan Troell
Written By
Niklas Radstrom, Jan Troell, Agneta Ulfsater Troell
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Mar 6, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Jun 29, 2010
IFC Films

Critic Reviews

  • Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail

    What makes the photographer's story so compelling is that her life's work actually does come alive onscreen.

  • Greg Quill, Toronto Star

    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.

  • Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

    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.

  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

    A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    [Director] Troell lovingly re-creates a time when socialism and Charlie Chaplin movies represented the ways forward, and he anchors his social panorama in the meek, stubborn stare of an unnoticed woman possessed with looking at everything.

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  • Red L


    This is an interesting movie. Set in Sweden in the early 1900's. Back in the days when life was hard, marriages were until "death do us part" and there is no AA. Makes you glad to know that we things are a little easier now. Maria rises above the banality of that… More

  • Mark A


    A visually stunning Swedish film that tells the story of a woman, faithful to her brutally abusive husband, and who finds a creative outlet in taking photographs. The story is told with a voice over from the eldest daughter as a remembrance of her parents' marriage. Maria Larsson… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]In "Everlasting Moments," Maria(Maria Heiskenan) and Sigge(Mikael Persbrandt) win a camera in a lottery. Maria claims ownership but Sigge wants to share, so he suggests they get married.[/font] [font=Century Gothic]This is certainly a sweet story but… More

  • Stefan P


    Everlasting Moments is something very unusual: a very good and well-executed movie from my home country, Sweden. The story is intriguing and the photography excellent. Great acting from Heiskanen and Persbrandt. Not an everlasting experience, but definitely memorable.

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