9 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Everlating Moments

DJCaggie from , 13th October, 2009

This film created an everlasting moment engaging and endearing from start to finish. It is hard to believe that something as sinple as a camera that we now take so much for granted can have such an impact on somebodys life. Excellent film

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Truthful, unsentimental, beautiful film.

antoine from , 9th November, 2009

This is an interesting and rather beautiful film. Working-class life is tough for Maria and her husband Sigge and their large family. Sure he is a womaniser and not too pleasant when he is drunk, but the film shows him to be a victim of his class and age. His sensitive wife keeps forgiving him and taking him back despite his inability to understand that women's roles are changing. It's gentle Pederson the portrait photographer who refuses to buy her camera from her, teaches her how to make the most of her talent (''you have the gift of seeing' he tells her') and stirs a kind of romance. And it's the camera which provides her with the everlasting moments of the title. It's all very truthful, well acted and unsentimental. And the extras show that it's all based on a real story, the original people looking very like the actors in the film.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Lovely

hardpressedmother from , 25th November, 2009

Each frame like a beautiful photo circa early 20th century, this film is a simple story of a woman living at that time in Sweden. Her husband, (the actor whose name I am not sure of, is superb) is an ordinary working man struggling to keep his ever growing family and to understand his sensitive wife and in the process drinking and being violent towards her. Fortunately she learns to take photographs and as a result becomes stronger, she has something for herself that makes her rise above her hard life. That is it, but the viewer drinks in the images and gives many an inner cheer as Maria survives and more than that lives and loves. A fine film with slight flaws (everything is so clean and new though depicting real poverty), many mothers will really relate to this.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Charming Film

fmgorgon from , 4th January, 2010

This film was absolutly beautiful. Photography was sublime. Heart warming storyline. All I can say is 'I know why I never watch American Films. can't remember who said it. Americans make BIG films about nothing. We make small films about everything.

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Captivating

A Customer from Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2nd March, 2010

I'm beginning to realise there is some brilliant film-making going on in the Nordic countries - and this is a stunning example. A totally accessible story, sensitively, intelligently and sympathetically told without an ounce of melodrama or schmaltz. Such a rewarding film. And so beautifully shot.

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everlasting moments

A Customer from Leominster, 23rd February, 2010

Certainly one of the best films of the last decade, although not for everyone. Poignant and wearing, you need a rest when it's over, but beautifully shot and acted.

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Everlasting Moments

A Customer from Romford, 18th February, 2010

My one criticism of this film is that it is a tad too long. Otherwise it's beautifully shot and a wonderful depiction of the effect of photography in the early 20th century.

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Great historical vignette

bcr from , 30th January, 2010

Apparently slow moving but weaves issues of the workers movement, alcoholism and photography into a compelling story.

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