Everlasting Moments

One of those films in which nothing very much happens, but is full of character and incident all the same. It's a life - just a life - but Maria is so empathetic and portrayed with such love that we are as immersed in that life as she is.

Feels a little repetitive and predictable in its depiction of the ordinary and the domestic. But there's something stubborn and gritty about Heiskanen's performance.

What makes the photographer's story so compelling is that her life's work actually does come alive onscreen.

Where the film is most satisfying is in an artfulness that operates beyond words.