Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ogonblick) Critic Reviews

It is a great story of love and hope, told tenderly and without any great striving for effect.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Quiet, observant, and intensely moving whenever Heiskanen is on screen, and it has a valedictory sweep that feels like a summing up.Read the full review

The result is an experience that, even as it feels a bit familiar, is nonetheless engrossing and satisfying.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Heiskanen plays her layers beautifully, alternately revealing a talented artist stymied by poverty and marital problems, and a woman fiercely devoted to family first.Read the full review

Artful filmmaking of the old school.Read the full review

All staged as a harsh poem of survival, with no great psychological interest, yet the ending carries a surprise feminist tug that’s worth the wait.Read the full review