Question: Problem: 1. There are some quiet, keenly observed scenes of family life in Everlasting Moments, but they don't go anywhere, and ironically, the movie diagnoses the reason why.
2. The three principal actors are powerfully effective, particularly Heiskanen.
3. Troell knows that what we want from our photographic memories and the stories they prompt is a special kind of emotional precision: a permanent one.
4. There's a luminous purity to this film...quietly eloquent, both in subject and cinematic expression.
5. A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.
6. Arguably, the pacing of this Swedish import is agonizingly slow and self-indulgent. (It's safe to say that if you find the films of Ingmar Bergman and other Scandinavian directors a bit dull and stuffy, you'll feel likewise about this one.)
7. [Director] Troell lovingly re-creates a time when socialism and Charlie Chaplin movies represented the ways forward, and he anchors his social panorama in the meek, stubborn stare of an unnoticed woman possessed with looking at everything.
8. Everlasting Moments ... returns the viewer to a time before reproduced images had saturated our culture...
9. Everlasting Moments skillfully showcases the power of artistic expression.
10. Benefits from a scrupulous emotional realism even as it jumps ahead several years at a time.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: Elegant and intimate, Everlasting Moments moves at the deliberate and gentle pace of a classical European period drama.


Problem: 1. Easily, one of the best pictures of 2001.
2. Isn't anybody else bothered by the fact that these digital 'films' look like used toilet paper?
3. When all is said and done, it is still a filmed play, but compelling all the same
4. Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman all turn in very solid performances.
5. Worth watching, even if it never transcends its self-imposed limitations.
6. For the most part, Tape is smart and deftly executed, with Hawke, in particular, as the resentful Vince, making a vivid impression.
7. For a movie set completely inside a dingy motel room, Tape is a thrilling piece of experimental cinema.
8. If Tape's claustrophobia doesn't get to you, and if you've got the intestinal fortitude to spend nearly 90 minutes in intimate proximity with two equally unlikeable guys, the movie does exert a certain propulsive fascination.
9. There's a place in the world of the cinema for filmed theater, especially when it's done as well as it is here.
10. The performances are amazingly charged and fluid.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: Taking place in a hotel room, Tape has the feel of a play, but its engrossing psychodrama allows its stars to shine.


Problem: 1. A successful novelist and restrained actor's director, Carrére makes the transformation of a silly marital argument into a cosmic upheaval look easy, and profound as well.
2. The film is an unpretentious blank slate--almost totally without point but so unassuming it earns consideration.
3. A deliciously unsettling, beautifully sustained enigma, a film of much beauty and flawless performances, especially from Vincent Lindon in one of his most demanding roles.
4. A satisfying psychological adventure that powers along nicely on its movie-star performances, the graceful craftsmanship of Emmanuel Carrere's direction and a haunting violin concerto by Philip Glass.
5. Part absurdist comedy about the institution of marriage, part paranoid Kafkaesque fantasy, it's a minor-key reverie on the way our own lives can sometimes feel alien to us.
6. Carrere playfully adapts his own novel for his feature debut and makes the interesting decision to show the film's events entirely through Marc's perspective.
7. an awfully rickety, hollow exercise in style over substance
8. It's all a bit like an Agatha Christie mystery whose final moments make it clear that none of the characters could have done it....If you can live with that, then don't miss it.
9. ...Recalls the "everyday suspense" films of Roman Polanski and the existential woe of Michelangelo Antonioni.
10. A unique psychological drama with the tension of a whodunit.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer:
Answer: Though the premise may be modest on the surface, Carrere uses a man and his mustache that may or may not exist as a springboard into psychological suspense and unsettling questions.