Criterion brings Jan Troell’s masterful debut feature Here is Your Life into their fold. It’s the Swedish auteur’s second film to join the collection, following his beautiful 2008 film, Everlasting Moments, the title many contemporary audiences may recognize. Though his narrative features are rather few and far between, generally based on expansive novels or real life events (his last work to date is 2012’s The Last Sentence documenting a journalist’s quest to inform the Swedish public on Fascism in the 1930s), his expressive debut would launch his career as a notable European auteur in the 1970s, with his Oscar nominated epic The Emigrants (currently slated to be remade by Daniel Espinosa) leading a pack of titles finding Troell working continually with Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, while crossing over internationally with films starring Gene Hackman and Mia Farrow.
Regarded as a masterpiece in Sweden, Troell based...
Regarded as a masterpiece in Sweden, Troell based...
- 7/14/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Release Date: March 6 (limited)
Director: Jan Troell
Writer: Niklas Rådström
Cinematographers: Mischa Gavrjusjov, Jan Troell
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 131 mins.
Leisurely realism elevates period tale of a woman who lives through pictures
Every photograph is a miracle for the durable matriarch of Everlasting Moments, and in the hands of enduring Swedish great Jan Troell, it’s hard to disagree. First set in 1907, the movie loosely recounts the fact-based story of Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen), a lower-class Swede with a lifelong affinity for photography. The movie extends into World War I and beyond, but it's always punctuated by Maria’s fleeting moments with her camera, which adopt a lightly symbolic weight as the years pass.
Director: Jan Troell
Writer: Niklas Rådström
Cinematographers: Mischa Gavrjusjov, Jan Troell
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 131 mins.
Leisurely realism elevates period tale of a woman who lives through pictures
Every photograph is a miracle for the durable matriarch of Everlasting Moments, and in the hands of enduring Swedish great Jan Troell, it’s hard to disagree. First set in 1907, the movie loosely recounts the fact-based story of Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen), a lower-class Swede with a lifelong affinity for photography. The movie extends into World War I and beyond, but it's always punctuated by Maria’s fleeting moments with her camera, which adopt a lightly symbolic weight as the years pass.
- 3/10/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Madrid -- Italian-Argentine co-production "Estomago," directed by Marcos Jorge, walked away with the 50,000 euro top prize, the Golden Spike, while Alberto Lecchi's "El Fracaso," took the 25,000 euro Silver Spike as the Valladolid International Film Festival wrapped Sunday.
Maria Heiskanen earned best actress honor for "Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moments," which saw Mischa Gavrjusjov and Jan Troell win best photography.
Joao Miguel shared the best actor award with Unax Ugalde, for their respective roles in and "Estomago" and "Buena Nueva."
Henrik Ruben Genz's "Terribly Happy" won both the best music award and the best script award.
Valladolid ran Oct. 24-Nov. 1 under the guidance of new artistic director Javier Angulo.
Maria Heiskanen earned best actress honor for "Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moments," which saw Mischa Gavrjusjov and Jan Troell win best photography.
Joao Miguel shared the best actor award with Unax Ugalde, for their respective roles in and "Estomago" and "Buena Nueva."
Henrik Ruben Genz's "Terribly Happy" won both the best music award and the best script award.
Valladolid ran Oct. 24-Nov. 1 under the guidance of new artistic director Javier Angulo.
- 11/3/2008
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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