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A Stunning Shot.(International Edition; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Everlasting Moments)(Movie review)(Brief article)

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Byline: Malcolm Jones

Visual acuity is at the heart of "Everlasting Moments," the beautiful new film by Sweden's Jan Troell ("The Emigrants"). Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) is the working-class wife of an abusive drunk. After winning a camera in a lottery, she discovers a gift for photography that then changes her life, though not all for the better. This is a movie stripped bare of cliches about self-discovery.

Maria soon finds herself in demand as a local portraitist, and in one scene, a mother whose child has drowned asks her to photograph the corpse in the coffin--a common early 20th-century ...

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