Through a leisurely tour through the world famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world, FOREVER provides us with the opportunity to reflect on the transcendental importance of art in our lives, on our need to commune with the spirits of the departed, and perhaps on our own mortality as well. 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.
3 day rental • NR • 95 min. • French & English with subtitles
“For anyone who has had the pleasure of walking through the Pre Lachaise but struggled to elucidate its inexplicable appeal, Heddy Honigmann's documentary is enlightening without being demystifying.”
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Slant Magazine
“What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.”
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Washington Post
“This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.”
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Chicago Tribune
“Honigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.”
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Salon.com
“One of those rare docs capable of holding its own in an official selection of fiction films.”
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Variety