Product Details

• Actors: n, a
• Directors: Heddy Honigmann
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Icarus Films
• DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001RVA1QO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,326 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Forever" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Acclaimed director Heddy Honigmann takes us on a visit of the renowned Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary artists from around the world including Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust and Maria Callas among others.

FOREVER introduces us to Parisians and tourists who make pilgrimages to these graves, whether to pay their respects, leave flowers or personal messages, or to tend to the upkeep of the tombstones. They share fascinating anecdotes about the deceased, and relate personal stories about the significance of the artists work in their lives. The cemetery is not only as a resting place for the dead but also a source of peace and inspiration for the living.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally., March 12, 2009

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David Terrenoire (Durham, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever (DVD)

I saw this at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2006 and I can't remember ever being so moved by a documentary. It was a surprise, just one of the many films I saw that week, but its look at art, beauty and a devotion that reaches beyond death, is a profound work. Finally, it's available for more people to see.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Love is as Strong as Death, June 14, 2009

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Gerard D. Launay (Berkeley, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever (DVD)

Those words come from the Song of Solomon in scripture. And I can think of no film that more completely captures the spirit of that line than this magnificent documentary. The setting, of course, is the famous cemetery in Paris known as Pere-Lachaise.

The filmmaker succeeds in showing the impact that the departed have on the hearts of the living...a young Japanese woman who was moved by her father's love of music to become a concert pianist; she pays homage to Chopin - a taxi cab driver who dreams of becoming a singer of Middle Eastern poetry regularly visits and tends to the tomb of Persian writer Sadegh Hedayat - a Spanish woman who is paying respects to her lost husband talks about the impact of the Spanish civil war on her family.

There is a scene in "Rebel Without A Cause" where the planetarium director lectures to the high school students that in the grand scheme of the universe, each human life is insignificant.This film shows us he is wrong! The lives of others can often touch, move, uplift, inspire persons far beyond their imaginings.

2.0 out of 5 stars A Missed Opportunity, October 29, 2011

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Norma Desmond (San Clemente, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever (DVD)

How could a documentary about the beautiful Pere Lachaise cemetery ever go wrong? This filmmaker manages to make a botch of something that could have been quite stunning. She inexplicably spends most of the film on Marcel Proust and Frederic Chopin, and mostly ignores the other famous residents of this cemetery. There are some fine moments with everyday people as they tend the graves of their beloved family members--I wish the filmmaker had done more of this. I was really looking forward to this movie, but was extremely disappointed. Perhaps Ms.Honigmann should have entitled her film "Marcel Proust's Grave."