Forever

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Forever

2006

1h 37m

Documentary

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Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris holds the remains of many notable people, such as Chopin, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Jim Morrison. The many people who visit the site to visit graves of loved ones and those who stop there as tourists find that it has mysterious and consoling beauty.

Alan G. Artner

Chicago Tribune

This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 3, 2008

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.

Sep 20, 2007

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Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Honigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.

Sep 18, 2007

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Stuart Klawans

The Nation

Forever [is] an infinitely touching documentary about the Père Lachaise cemetery and its visitors.

Jul 6, 2010

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Paul Brenner

Filmcritic.com

meditative and measured

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 11, 2009

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Mark R. Leeper

rec.arts.movies.reviews

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.

Rated: 6/10

Apr 6, 2009

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Fantastic documentary about what must be the most famous cemetery in the world, Pere-Lachaise. The stories of the many visitors from all over the world who come to pay their respects to people long-dead, mostly artists, writers and composers, are very interesting indeed and the camerawork is just stunning. There are a few mis-steps i would say along the way - I didn't think the embalmer's sequence fitted in, but by and large this is great stuff - one of the most unusual and affecting documentaries I have seen in quite some time.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Every scene is memorable, including the opening one where director Heddy Honigmann sticks up her snooty Euro cosmopolitan nose at Americans in general and Jim Morrison in particular.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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the tombstones are by no means any match to the living legends, the most enticing moments in the movie are after all those live performance footages of musicians/artists such as Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Michel Petrucciani and Danielle Messia once captured on film with full vigor (HKIFF 24/3/2008)

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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A beautiful, poetic documentary about Pere Lachaise cemetery and the people who make pilgrimages there.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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A beautiful movie and really interesting too. It shows you not only breathtaking scenarios but rides you in a culutral tour about the famous artists that rest in the cementery.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Interviews of vistors to the famous PÃ¨re-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Resting-place of artists from all eras and corners of the world: Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin. The mysterious, calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of people of flesh and blood. Admirers share with us the importance of art and beauty in their lives, the graveyard gradually reveals itself as a source of inspiration for the living.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Judith Vreriks

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Carmen Cobos

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Synopsis

Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris holds the remains of many notable people, such as Chopin, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Jim Morrison. The many people who visit the site to visit graves of loved ones and those who stop there as tourists find that it has mysterious and consoling beauty.

Director: Heddy Honigmann
Producer: Carmen Cobos
Screenwriter: Ester Gould, Heddy Honigmann, Judith Vreriks
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 25, 2017
Runtime: 1h 37m

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