Having seen many of Jan Troell’s films, during adolescence and just recently a long interview with him on Swedish television, I was especially excited to see him and his most recent film in Hamburg, yesterday. The screen was huge, the images - as usual in his films - filled of nature’s beauty and the tempo moderate. To describe the story would be to reduce the image of the film for you, as hopefully future spectators. See it on a big screen!
Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick reminded me about Troell’s unusual class awareness and clarity about gender issues. I was inspired by the film’s theme about the role of the artist (photography in this case). I was taken back to the years I lived in Malmö, where most of the film takes place, with the city’s history of the workers’ movement and “barnrikehus” (special housing for working class families with many children), etc.
I was unusually moved to see the director and the leading actress, Maria Heiskanen, in front of that huge screen, after the film. I realized how collective artistic endevours have the possibilty to make us, small people, grow enormously. I was inspired and in awe in front of these great artists.
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