One of those films in which nothing very much happens, but is full of character and incident all the same. It's a life - just a life - but Maria is so empathetic and portrayed with such love that we are as immersed in that life as she is.

| Aug 29, 2018

Feels a little repetitive and predictable in its depiction of the ordinary and the domestic. But there's something stubborn and gritty about Heiskanen's performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2010

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2009

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.

| May 29, 2009

The scenes in which Maria discovers the pleasures of photography are affecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2009

The film is exquisitely shot. Yet something's missing. The figures in Maria's photographs are uncannily substantial. The characters in the film, by comparison, seem like fragrant ghosts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

Superficially interesting in many ways but this doesn't really engage on a deeper level.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2009

God, it's dull. Tasteful, to be sure; the movie would sit perfectly in a Sunday night slot reserved for BBC period adaptations.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2009

Shot in atmospheric sepia tones, this is a modest film with gentle, pleasing sentiments at its heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

His film is a keepsake, guided to a close as wistful and perfect as the dying bars of a Chopin Nocturne.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2009

Although punctuated with moments of shocking violence, this is a quiet, slow-moving film but it is also involving and at times deeply moving.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 22, 2009

It's a mark of Troell's mastery that we could happily have borne another half-hour of his mesmerising yarn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2009

Troell's film manages to fascinate yet never convinces us of its necessity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 9, 2009

[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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2009

The three principal actors are powerfully effective, particularly Heiskanen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2009

Everlasting Moments offers such breadth and complexity it can be forgiven exceeding its grasp. In fact, it should be applauded for doing so.

| Original Score: B | Mar 27, 2009

It's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens.

| Mar 26, 2009