Everlasting Moments (2008)

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Maria Heiskanen in Jan Troell’s “Everlasting Moments.”
March 6, 2009
With the World Changing Fast, Finding a Vision of Self in a Camera
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 6, 2009

Jan Troell’s “Everlasting Moments” is a film whose title gives a clue about the kind of mood it wants to create. Set in Sweden in the early decades of the 20th century, this movie unspools at a leisurely, episodic pace, dwelling on the details of domestic life with a care that is both naturalistic and nostalgic. From the start, a narrator’s voice establishes that this is a daughter’s reminiscence of her parents’ long, often painful marriage, and her wistful, elegiac recollections extend to the film’s visual texture, its brownish hues and grainy, wintry sunlight. More