Everlasting Moments

Winning a camera changes Maria (Heiskanen)’s life: it hastens her marriage to Sigge (Persbrandt); and it helps her endure it. It’s 1907, and Malmö in Sweden seems like a cleaner version of new century Glasgow. A docker in a shipbuilding city, Sigge lurches violently from temperance to abuse, his ever-increasing family cowering through his vodka-fuelled rages, only breathing easy during his periodical stints in the pokey. Poor, proud, and fiercely protective, Maria is nevertheless at the end of her tether, aching to leave her husband, but bound by a promise she made to her father. Rediscovering the camera, however, leads her into a secret hobby: taking pictures when Sigge’s out on the lash. It also introduces her to the kind and gentle Mr Pederson (recent Bond villain Christensen), who helps her trap the exquisite moments she sees in her own, harsh life. A captivating story, with beautiful, magical little images: just what you’d hope for from a film about cameras.