Everlasting Moments, 2008

The antithesis of a Hollywood movie, "EVERLASTING MOMENTS" is a slow-to-unfold drama focusing on a working-class family in WWI-era Sweden. In the midst of pumping out seven kids, taking in sewing and cleaning rich folks' houses, and dealing with her increasingly brutish, unfaithful and alcoholic husband (whom she nonetheless loves), a young wife's life is turned around when she winds up with a camera. The newfangled device helps her become who she is, lifts her from the drab stays of her workaday life, and introduces her to a new friend in the person of the sensitive owner of a photo shop in town. At least an hour could have been cut from this saga, and there's little action, but the director does make you care for the characters and their lives, and while he piles on the domestic drama he at least spares us melodrama. A worthwhile film, but you'll need some patience.

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