Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick 2008

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: There is a good deal of honest charm in this story, and in the three principal performances. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Period movies with lots of sepia are usually soft in the head, but the nostalgic glow of Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments only adds to the clarity -- and wonder -- of its vision. Read more

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. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Watch closely, though, and you see that the filmmaker takes life in just as Maria does, with darting, piercing glances. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Everlasting Moments unfolds over the decades, showing us a life not entirely transformed by photography but profoundly touched by it. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Like any old photograph of strangers, Everlasting Moments begins as just a bunch of samey faces, but getting to know the people in the picture makes all the difference. Read more

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. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A rich, intensely human story that deals with the mysteries of creativity and love and the pain and joy of relationships. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: [Director] Troell, at 78, continues to turn out films that will last for as long as there are movies. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Everlasting Moments offers such breadth and complexity it can be forgiven exceeding its grasp. In fact, it should be applauded for doing so. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Everlasting Moments is 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 more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Suggests that bad behavior can be corrected with ten years of patience -- a choice that can be read as either false uplift or honest murk. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Reminiscent of Fanny and Alexander and rich in detail and story, this unhurried, novelistic movie is worth looking into. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Heiskanen is a revelation as the put-upon wife, and the cinematography (some by Troell) effortlessly transports us back 100 years. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Period pieces like this were once more popular than they are today. It is refreshing to see a solid one like this from time-to-time. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Rarely is there a film that evokes our sympathy more deeply than Everlasting Moments. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: This is artful filmmaking of the old school. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Let's come out and admit it: This is a square, conventional movie where every shot means what it means, with scant ambiguity or artistic license. Surrender to its conservative technique, though, and you'll be moved as well as entertained. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The three principal actors are powerfully effective, particularly Heiskanen. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: What makes the photographer's story so compelling is that her life's work actually does come alive onscreen. Read more

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. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Everlasting Moments will stun you with simple pleasures: a naturally lit kitchen; a country dance captured austerely from a respectful distance. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: 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. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Troell's screenplay, as has often been the case with him, exists for the fullness of its texture, not for dramatic growth and resolution. Read more

Todd McCarthy, 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 that will be appreciated by discerning arthouse patrons worldwide. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens. Read more