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Everlasting Moments (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Maria Heiskanen , Mikael Persbrandt , Jan Troell  |  Unrated |  Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall, Nellie Almgren
  • Directors: Jan Troell
  • Writers: Jan Troell, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, Maja Öman, Niklas Rĺdström
  • Producers: Bella Seward, Christer Nilson, Christof Groos
  • Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Swedish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
  • Run Time: 131 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003E0YU0Y
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,275 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Everlasting Moments (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]" on IMDb

Special Features

  • New high-definition digital transfer
  • DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Jan Troell's Magic Mirror, an hour-long documentary about Troell's life
  • Short documentary on the making of Everlasting Moments featuring interviews
  • Documentary featuring photographs by the real Maria Larsson with narration
  • Theatrical trailer
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Armond White

  • Editorial Reviews

    Amazon.com

    Fitting for a movie about a woman who finds a new life through photography, Everlasting Moments features stunning images: A streetcar looming out of a wall of fog; the shadow of a zeppelin gliding across a courtyard; a family bouncing around a bedroom, all wearing Charlie Chaplin mustaches. This rich, emotionally powerful film begins in 1907 in a Swedish port, where Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) struggles to raise her four children with little help from her boozing, womanizing husband Sigfrid (Mikael Persbrandt). By accident, she rediscovers a camera that she'd won in a lottery; through its lens she reinvents her confined, unhappy world as a place of warmth, hope, and spiritual transcendence--and begins a furtive, yearning romance with an older photographer who gives her supplies from his studio. Everlasting Moments covers decades of Maria's life, capturing not only her character but the character of the times in which she lived--an era of social unrest, world war, and personal upheaval. Yet despite this dense story, the movie feels relaxed and unfolds with the easy command of writer/director Jan Troell, whose films have won dozens of awards around the world, though he is little-known in the U.S. With any luck, Everlasting Moments will bring him some much-due recognition. --Bret Fetzer

    Product Description

    Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) returns triumphantly with EVERLASTING MOMENTS, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen, in a beautifully nuanced portrayal) finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time. With a burnished bronze tint that evokes faded photographs, and a broad empathetic palette, EVERLASTING MOMENTS--based on a true story--is a miraculous tribute to the power of image making.

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    4.8 out of 5 stars
    I have seen these films and they are the best of the best. AlskerSvenskFilm  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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    18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Gentle Miracle of a Film September 9, 2009
    Format:DVD
    EVERLASTING MOMENTS ('Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick') is a quiet, gentle masterpiece of filmmaking. The screenplay by Niklas Rĺdström, based on a story by Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell and director Jan Troell, is so free of the expected extended dialogues that accompany films of this nature that it allows the magic of the period piece set in early 20th century Sweden to rely on the beauty of the cinematography by Mischa Gavrjusjov and Jan Troell and the subtle and simple film score by Matti Bye (with a little help from Massenet!). Filmed in the color scheme suggestive of the distinguished Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershři, never straying far from sepia tones that ignite the solitude and light of the Nordic countries, this film could probably be successful as a silent movie - that is how powerful the production is.

    We are told in the voice over introduction that Maria Larsson (the exceptional Finnish actress Maria Heiskanen) won a camera in a lottery and the only way she would share the strange prize would be if her boyfriend Sigfrid (Mikael Persbrandt) would marry her. The couple marries and begins a large family: Maria takes in sewing and Sigfrid works at the docks - and drinks to excess. Maria's world becomes progressively unhappy and though she continues to have children she longs for a life free of the influence of Sigfrid's alcoholism and womanizing. She finds her hidden camera and thinking to pawn it for money to support her children she seeks the advice of an older photographer Sebastian Pedersen (Jesper Christensen) who convinces her to discover the magic of photography as a means of expression and makes it possible for Maria to keep her camera and learn the art of photography.
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    15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everlasting Moments is OUTSTANDING December 12, 2009
    Format:DVD
    As a photography teacher I found the film outstanding for college level students or anyone who loves photography. It has a quiet yet powerful way it moves through a story about a woman and how essentially she is saved because of her ability with the camera and to take pictures. The film itself is packed full of powerful images and moments of realization. Wonderful dialogue and moments all real photographers can relate to that floats in and out of the story about photography and the position of the photographer such as quotes that went something like this "when I am photographing I forget I am a mother" or "not everyone can see". I would watch it again and again. If you are not a photographer but have a heart at all its an enduring story that anyone can appreciate and enjoy. Amazing film - I was carried away.
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    9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars "Everlasting Moments" Criterion Blu-Ray Review July 8, 2010
    Format:Blu-ray
    This review contains "spoilers", so for those to which this causes distress I offer fair warning.

    There's a singular moment anyone who has ever held a camera recognizes, a moment of absolute clarity, a recognition that somehow seeing the world through those lens invites a different view than what our eyes initially present. A professional photographer can probably wax poetic about the virtues of image capture far better than I, but even a casual photographer can recognize the key to great photography is how the image is lit and framed. It's an innate talent some appear to be blessed with: the protagonist Maria Larsson of "Everlasting Moments" certainly was, along with this cinematographer of this beautifully shot 2008 Swedish film.

    First, a word about the quality of the transfer. Considering this is a Criterion release, I expected the best, but on very rare occasions I've been a bit disappointed with their work. "Everlasting Moments" is filmed in something of a degraded color scheme which is closer to sepia tone than sharp color, no doubt an artistic decision on the part of the director. That said, the image on this Blu-Ray is extremely sharp and full of detail and texture, which is accompanied by a heavy sheen of grain. I was often impressed with the quality of this transfer, a transfer that highlights the beauty of the cinematography and remains faithful to the director's original intentions. I've not a single complaint in this department.

    The essay booklet and supplementary material are notably quite substantial, a factor which makes the steep Criterion price tag worth it. The centerpiece of the four included special features is an hour long career retrospective on the work of director Jan Troell titled "Troell's Magic Mirror".
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    7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, subtle, touching February 15, 2010
    Format:DVD
    There's something almost too clean and perfect about Jan Troell's depiction of life in Sweden in the early 1900s. The film depicts the poverty and the troubles of one ordinary working class family, a family whose struggle to get by isn't helped by a violent father, a dock worker and labourer, whose drinking binges gradually come to terrorise the family, while his carrying-on with barmaids bring down the family name. Seen through the eyes of their daughter Maja Larsson, it's almost as if the worst horrors are kept private, the film's tasteful lighting, sepia tints and sensitive piano score from Matti Bye only adding to the impression of a somewhat idealised depiction of events that really aren't that pleasant at all.

    In the end however, and even throughout, the strength of the film is indeed in its subtlety, in its refusal to appeal to the viewer's sentiments in regard to poverty and brutality of an underprivileged upbringing, and instead focus on the positive aspects of family togetherness and their attempts to rise above their troubles. In narrative terms, it's done with great sensitivity and subtlety through the device of the mother Maria Larsson's discovery of the miracle and beauty of photography and a deep friendship that she strikes up with the owner of a photography shop - two events that help her create for herself a life of her own.

    The real strength however is in the performances that get to the heart of the characters and the times they live in.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
    Great Story ! Wonderful actors historically interesting easy paced subtitles. I have recommended this movie to many friends and they have loved it too.
    Published 1 month ago by Cha Cha
    5.0 out of 5 stars EVERLASTING MOMENTS
    This film drew my interest because of the actors and the director, and also because my grandfather was a portrait photographer during the same time period in which the film is set... Read more
    Published 6 months ago by Julie Massey
    5.0 out of 5 stars ACADEMY AWARD SHOULDN'T FORGET SOME MASTERPIECES LIKE THIS.
    RECENT YEARS, ACADEMY AWARDS WOULD LIKE SOME SHARP MOVIES, AND SOMETIMES EVEN CONTROVERSIAL. HOWEVER, THE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN AND LIFE STAYS MORE ETERNAL THAN THAT, LIKE EVERLASTING... Read more
    Published 6 months ago by HAN XIAO
    5.0 out of 5 stars I appreciated it even more on the second viewing
    I'm losing count of the number of foreign films I've discovered that I would like to show to friends. Read more
    Published 9 months ago by Steven Aldersley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life is what you chose to remember...
    Jan Troell's `Everlasting Moments', adapted from the memoirs of Maja Oman, focuses on the Larsson family during the early 1900's living in Sweden. Read more
    Published 11 months ago by Andrew Ellington
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful...
    Everlasting moments is set in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Maria Larsson is trying to raise her family of several children in times of economic hardship. Read more
    Published 11 months ago by Sanjoy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastical filmagery....
    One of the best: not, however for most people. Only the Criterion crowd will enjoy this as it is truly great cinema. Read more
    Published 13 months ago by Dr. Morbius
    5.0 out of 5 stars photography at its best
    This movie was a huge surprise. As a photographer it helped relive my passion for the old way of making photographs. Read more
    Published 18 months ago by S. Bloom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jan Trřell's still alive
    In 1971, Jan Trřell made an indelible mark among American audiences, with The Emigrants, and it's sequel, The New Land. Read more
    Published on May 15, 2011 by R. Gawlitta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
    The GREAT Jan Troell created a very special work of art in Everlasting Moments.

    There are enough reviews to describe this period piece. Read more
    Published on March 25, 2011 by AlskerSvenskFilm
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