Experiencing art beyond the grave
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07/22/09
Forever (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:16
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Award-winning documentarian Heddy Honigmann (CRAZY) captures the spirit of Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery in this fascinating film. From Amadeo Modigliani to Jim Morrison, some of the world's... [More]
Director: Heddy Honigmann
Reviews for Forever
1 - 17 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
meditative and measured
04/11/09
At times a little pretentious, but a reasonable, not perfect, meditation on art and beauty and the relation of the living artist with the dead who have contributed to his art.
04/06/09
It's a surprisingly upbeat and moving film considering it's set at a cemetery.
03/29/09
This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.
07/03/08
To be honest, a 90-minute documentary about a cemetery sounds about as exciting as spending 90 minutes in a cemetery. But surprisingly, Forever turns out to be a much-better film than that would suggest.
05/29/08
What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.
09/20/07
Top CriticHonigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.
09/18/07
Achieves something more resonant than a Solemn Affirmation of the Immortal Spirit of Art.
09/18/07
Without digging up a single rotting, worm-infested corpse or skeleton, Honigmann's lovely, elegant meditation nevertheless exposes haunting truths about Père-Lachaise and the visitors who fill it with such incongruous life and vivacity.
09/14/07
Honigmann's subtle asides -- moody cuts to mournful statuary, insects crawling over tombs -- all speak to her art-is-immortal theme.
09/13/07
Netherlands-based filmmaker Heddy Honigmann uses the famed necropolis as a means of looking how artistic inspiration continues to live on long after the artist's death.
09/12/07
Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmann's frustrating documentary Forever.
09/12/07
Top Critic[A film with] power to stir a memory of beauty beheld and shared.
09/12/07
For anyone who has had the pleasure of walking through the Père Lachaise but struggled to elucidate its inexplicable appeal, Heddy Honigmann's documentary is enlightening without being demystifying.
09/09/07
Internationally revered documentarian Heddy Honigmann lends her voice to this heartbreakingly beautiful exposition on the enduring nature of art that takes place almost entirely in the famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
08/30/07
One of those rare docs capable of holding its own in an official selection of fiction films.
07/31/07
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