Ghost-like: Everlasting Moments
10 April 2012
This year’s Swedish Oscar entry, Everlasting Moments is a tribute to the pioneering Swedish photographer, Maria Larsson. It starts in 1907, with a shy youngster winning a camera and, by the by, gaining a husband, a handsome harry who turns out to have a weakness for drink and other women.
It’s easy enough to like Maria (actress Maria Heiskanen has a wonderful, crinkly face) and the film is exquisitely shot. Yet something’s missing. The figures in Maria’s photographs are uncannily substantial. The characters in the film, by comparison, seem like fragrant ghosts.
Everlasting Moments
Cert: 15
