2008 · drama · period · photography
Everlasting Moments
Directed by Jan Troell2h 11m2008
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Our read: Everlasting Moments (2008) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · period · photography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / period, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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