Weekend Movie Forecast: Watchmen Vs. Frenchmen

Everlasting Moments, from Swedish director Jan Troell, concerns a woman who experiences an artistic awakening after being introduced to photography around the turn of the century. A.O. Scott at the Times has respect: "Quiet and decorous though it is, Everlasting Moments is as full of character and incident as a fat realist novel... There is sorrow and brutality in this film, but it is balanced by delicacy, humor and a sense of innocence that flirts with mawkishness. Any excursion into a lost world of childhood... risks sentimentalizing the past, but Mr. Troell, many of whose earlier films have also been historical dramas, compensates with a sense of historical and psychological clarity. The result is an experience that, even as it feels a bit familiar, is nonetheless engrossing and satisfying."