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Instants éternels

Original title: Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 11m
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Instants éternels (2008)
Sweden, early 1900s. 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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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.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.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
    • Jan Troell
  • Writers
    • Niklas Rådström
    • Jan Troell
    • Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell
  • Stars
    • Maria Heiskanen
    • Mikael Persbrandt
    • Jesper Christensen
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    6.1K
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    • Director
      • Jan Troell
    • Writers
      • Niklas Rådström
      • Jan Troell
      • Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell
    • Stars
      • Maria Heiskanen
      • Mikael Persbrandt
      • Jesper Christensen
    • 33User reviews
    • 92Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 16 nominations total

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    Everlasting Moments
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    Maria Heiskanen
    Maria Heiskanen
    • Maria Larsson
    Mikael Persbrandt
    Mikael Persbrandt
    • Sigfrid Larsson
    Jesper Christensen
    Jesper Christensen
    • Sebastian Pedersen
    Callin Öhrvall
    Callin Öhrvall
    • Maja Larsson (age 15-22)
    Nellie Almgren
    • Maja Larsson (age 8-10)
    Birte Heribertson
    • Maja Larsson (narration)
    • (as Birte Heribertsson)
    • …
    Ghita Nørby
    Ghita Nørby
    • Miss Fagerdal
    Amanda Ooms
    Amanda Ooms
    • Matilda
    Emil Jensen
    • Englund
    Claire Wikholm
    Claire Wikholm
    • Grandmother Karna
    Ann Petrén
    Ann Petrén
    • Ida
    Antti Reini
    Antti Reini
    • Finnish Sea Captain
    Annika Lundgren
    • Miss Öst
    Maria Lundqvist
    Maria Lundqvist
    • Miss Petrén
    Hans Henrik Clemensen
    • Mr. Fagerdal
    Yohanna Troell
    Yohanna Troell
    • Margareta
    Rune Bergman
    • Maria's Father
    Hans Alfredson
    Hans Alfredson
    • Prison Guard
    • Director
      • Jan Troell
    • Writers
      • Niklas Rådström
      • Jan Troell
      • Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell
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    User reviews33

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    8Red-125

    For better or for worse

    Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (2008), directed by Jan Troell, is showing in the U.S. with the title "Everlasting Moments." It's an unusual movie, and I enjoyed it, but it's hard to describe or review.

    The film takes place in Sweden, roughly between 1900 and 1920. It's more or less an "I Remember Mama"-type memoir, narrated by the oldest daughter of a married working-class couple--Maria Larsson, played by Maria Heiskanen, and Sigfrid Larsson, played by Mikael Persbrandt.

    Maria Heiskanen is a very attractive actor, but this part calls for her to appear relatively plain, which she manages to accomplish. (Sort of like Betsy Blair appearing as "the dog" in "Marty.") Her husband is a basically decent sort of guy, who was considered a good catch when they married. Unfortunately, he's a mean drunk and, even when sober, he's not always the best of spouses.

    What makes Maria different is that she has won a camera in a lottery, and her ability to take photographs moves the plot forward, insofar as it moves forward at all.

    The film more or less meanders along, with episodes that appear realistic enough, but that don't always seem to be heading in a clear direction from beginning to middle to end. Time moves forward, and people--and the actors who portray them--get older, but the movie doesn't unfold in an "A therefore B, B therefore C" sort of way.

    This is a movie to watch if you don't demand sex or action, if you don't mind a slow pace, and if you don't mind a movie that appears to be shot more in sepia than in true color. I enjoy that kind of film, so I liked "Everlasting Moments." If your tastes don't run along those lines, I'd pass it by.

    Incidentally, we saw the film in a theater, but I think it would work well on a small screen.
    10nancylibra9

    Emotionally enthralling--beautiful.

    An exceptional story about a woman learning to be an artist in a restrictive time and place. The story, images, and acting are magnificent. Please take time to see this reflectively. The characters are strong and three-dimensional. The choices they make in the early part of the 20th Century probably aren't ones we ourselves might choose. It is a movie which shows subtlety and nuances. My friends and I loved this film for the strength of the woman, her yearning for self-expression, her ability to have artistic vision in an era where there was no encouragement,the delicate balance of the relationships and limitation of choices--given the hard realities of money and social constraints. You will find it moving.
    8stensson

    Oldtimer about old times

    Jan Troell is the nestor in Swedish movies. He's got more than 40 years of experience. And you're aware of it here. Not a second too much in any scene. A total concentration in every millimeter.

    It all takes place in Malmö, a city in southern Sweden, in the beginning of the 20th century. A worker with drinking and infidelity problems is married to this woman and they have plenty of children. It's a life of misery, but suddenly a new world opens to the woman. The world of photography. Another way of viewing.

    After that nothing can really harm her. Not even the violence from her husband. Every detail is there it should be in this movie. Every button is at the right place in every suit, and it's also obvious for the audience what the director means by it.

    To be shown at any film rookie school.
    8secondtake

    it's PIFF PUFF POOF, and if life is beautiful, so is this moving film

    Everlasting Moments (2008)

    This is a vivid, unsentimental, yet tender and loving portrayal of a Swedish seaside family in the early 20th Century. The brute is the father of the family, and yet he is fun and sometimes loving. The heroine is the mother, who suffers greatly, but who also can never quite break free of her husband. The children grow up and prosper, modestly, anyway, over the 15 years of the movie. And we come to see that this is pretty much the most common story of a working class family from that period, anywhere.

    And there is a small extra interest, because the mother discovers a camera among the family things, and is persuaded to learn how to use it. The scenes, interspersed over the years, where she takes pictures and develops them in a makeshift darkroom are beautiful, and yet they are not (thankfully) overblown into something momentous and artistically profound.

    My field happens to be the History of Photography, which I teach at a couple colleges here in Albany, and I have to say, they nailed the historical accuracy very well. I can't say for sure about when that camera was made, but it seems about right. More importantly, I can say that the style of the photographs is really typical for a talented, serious, dabbling amateur such as our leading woman. The size, the clarity, her care in holding it (even turning it horizontally for a key photograph), and the procedure in general is quite exactly how I would have advised a moviemaker to go about it. This helps not only people in the know (there aren't so many of us, I realize) but in general an historical validity in the bones of the movie.

    As elegant as the movie is filmed (almost to excess, in a few scenes--the cinematography outclassed by the simple, gorgeous use of light throughout), it comes across as hard and true. The film is beautiful, but life is beautiful. It's not easy, it involves losing some battles, it involves giving up some dignity, but if you stay the course, as these people do in ways most contemporary families would not, there is some other kind of reward.
    10Michael Fargo

    Enraptured

    I was reluctant to see Jan Troell's film for fear it might not be worthy of the experience of seeing his "The Emigrants"/"The New Land." Ordinarily, I'd rush to see something by any good director, but those two films were of such distinction, I hesitated.

    Many of the same issues in "The Emigrants"/"The New Land" are here but we have it from the point of view of an artist and this film concentrates less on the art itself than the reason the artist needs to do it. It's a slight shift in focus than we usually get in biographies of artists, but it made this film something that's truer than, say, seeing Ed Harris ape Jackson Pollack dripping paint.

    The rise of the middle class, WWI, labor unions, the demise of feudal monarchy, alcoholism, abortion, disability, codependency, feminism, and most importantly how industrial technology released the poor from dire existence to the opportunity (and leisure) of making art...and why that was important.

    It's an ambitious film that feels as light as a shadow. While there is quite a bit of dialog, there's never any explanation despite extensive voice-over by a daughter of the subject of the film. We're shown why this woman needs to take photographs, and how she's introduced to it and the changes it brings lifts us up to the ecstasy she feels.

    The circumstances of her marriage which is the primary focus of her suffering Troell renders with great sensitivity and understanding. The fact that the abusive husband, Mikael Persbrandt, almost steals the film is a testament to the compassion of the filmmaker.

    But its the central character's actress, Maria Heiskanen, who takes a role that could have been maudlin and infuses it with a ferocious passion that stays in one's memory. No director could have wished for more in this performance.

    Filmed in 16mm then transferred to 35mm, the passion of the main character for making images is clearly the director's own. One (of many) moments is so exquisite and complete: The lead character doesn't understand how photographs are made, and when she's shown with the image of a butterfly projected on her open hand, we're as astonished as she is.

    That image is used again near the end of the film in a way that's masterful. I don't know if this movie is as good as "The Emigrants/New Land," but its worthy of the director who made that monumental work.

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    • Trivia
      Sweden's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009).
    • Connections
      Featured in 2009 Golden Globe Awards (2009)
    • Soundtracks
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      from La légende de Gösta Berling (1924)

      Composed by Matti Bye

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 24, 2008 (Sweden)
    • Countries of origin
      • Sweden
      • Denmark
      • Norway
      • Finland
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • Finnish
    • Also known as
      • Everlasting Moments
    • Filming locations
      • Hamburg, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Final Cut Productions
      • Blind Spot Pictures
      • Danmarks Radio (DR)
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    • Budget
      • €4,773,906 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $610,825
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $40,443
      • Mar 8, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,383,108
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 11 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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