Forever
Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art, about a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. One of the world's most famous and beautiful cemeteries is the final resting place of a gifted group of artists, from various periods in history and virtually every corner of the world. Some, such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrisson and Chopin, are still worshipped to date. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited only occasionally by a single admirer. We see the mysterious, calming beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of today's visitors. Many come for their own beloved ones. Others honour "their" artist by leaving behind a personal message or a flower. While admirers share with us the importance of art and beauty in their lives, the graveyard gradually reveals itself not only as a resting place for the dead, but also as a source of peace and inspiration for the living. Death offers little consolation except for the melancholia of a moss-covered tomb, and the beauty and power of a piece of music, a poem or a painting.
Netherlands - 2006 - 1 h 31 mn - 35 mm - Colour and B&W
Director
Heddy Honigmann
Writer
Heddy Honigmann, Ester Gould, Judith Vreriks
Camera
Robert Alazraki
Sound
Piotr van Dijk
Editing
Danniel Danniel
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Production
Cobos Films,
Nicolaas Witsenkade 18 D,
1017 ZS Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Tél : +31 20 320 3368
Fax : +31 20 5304787
E-mail : ccobos@cobosfilms.nl
Co-Production
Nederlandse Programma Stichting
with the participation of
YLE Teema, ETV Eesti Television - Estonian National Television, SBS Television - Risalto (Europe), SVT - Sveriges Television AB
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Sales
Cobos Films,
Nicolaas Witsenkade 18 D,
1017 ZS Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Tél : +31 20 320 3368
Fax : +31 20 5304787
E-mail : ccobos@cobosfilms.nl |
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