Everlasting Moments

Mavens:

This glowing recommendation, just in from Evelyn! I concur, having seen the movie earlier this week. Evelyn makes note of a butterfly being released at the end. Sharp mavens might remember the conclusion of 12, where a caged sparrow is also released to its freedom.

peter

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Hi Peter! Just to let you know that Lynn and I went to see Everlasting Moments at the Cinema du Parc at your suggestion. What a beautiful movie! The pace, the timing, the photography and the acting were just wonderful...after the film ended I just wanted to sit there and wait for another film to start - any movie because I wanted to be transported again into another world. This is what movies are all about. It was long but it carried you away with its timing. You really felt that you were visiting early 20th century life. The children were lovely and Maria exuded a certain innocent charm even if she bore her brute of a husband 7 children. Didn't really feel that the camera freed her from her life but gave her a sense of being, and of accomplishment. She was able to capture people and moments as they really were - a true gift of an artist. Mr. Pederson was also a love for her to dream about as obviously her family came first. She nearly left it all but her sense of responsibility and love of family kept her with her husband/family to the end. I loved it...even the end when she lets the butterfly go free...she knows that she also will soon be free You know, Peter, I always said that if I ever came back to this life I would like to come back as a bird because a bird is so free. He flys the wide expanse of the sky and looks down, chooses where he wants to go or build his home. Like Maria, we are all held back by a sense of responsibility, need, commitment and our own fear of change. That box we live in.The sadness is not that she didn't follow her dream but that she really couldn't - there was no escape. Only the butterfly went free!