Maria Heiskanens prestation i Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick belönades med priset för bästa skådespelerska på den spanska filmfestivalen i Vallodolid när den avslutades i helgen. Även Jan Troell och Mischa Gavrjusjov, filmens fotografer, vann pris för bäs
Maria Heiskanen Photo: Jan Göransson
Troell's film has also become something of a favourite with Variety among the 67 Oscar contenders from around the world. Just recently Variety's Anne Thompson listed the four films she thinks rank highest in the Best Foreign Language Film category: Everlasting Moments, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Class (Entre les murs) and Waltz with Bashir.
Tomorrow (Wednesday 12 November) Everlastig Moments is the opening film of the Swedish-Norewegian film week in Paris, Ciné Nordica.
Maria Heiskanen, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell (whose story formed the basis of the film) and Jan Troell will be present for the event.
Synopsis
In Sweden in the early 1900s - in a time of social change and poverty - the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.
Stockholm, 11 November 2008