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Filmography
- Rööperi (2009)
- Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2008)
- Miehen työ (2007)
- Laitakaupungin valot (Lights in the Dusk) (2006)
- Hus i helvete (All Hell Let Loose) (2002)
- Så vit som en snö (As White as in Snow) (2001)
- 10:10 (2000)
- Brandbilen som försvann (1993)
- Il Capitano (1991)
News
Finding magic through a camera
philly.com –
2009-04-10
Before Maria (stalwart Maria Heiskanen) married and bore the first five of her seven children, she won a camera in a raffle. Because he paid for the ticket, her beau thinks the camera should be his. ... Full Article
What to watch this weekend: Friday, April 3
boston.com –
2009-04-03
The best of the new movie releases hitting Boston area theaters this weekend is probably " Everlasting Moments ," a rich, quiet, wise drama about a stressed-out tenement wife and mother (the wonderful Maria Heiskanen) discovering her gift for photography... ... Full Article
A Swedish housewife turns to photography to escape her problemsEverlasting Moments homepage
totalfilm.com –
2009-03-30
Piff! Paff! Puff! Capturing in photos a world choked with anxiety and wonder, mother-of-five Maria (Maria Heiskanen) escapes the clutches of her booze-addled husband by seeking the beauty in early 20th-Century Sweden. ... Full Article
There's No Pleasure Like Playing the Victim
nysun.com –
2007-06-13
Albert Camus's 1942 novel "L'tranger" ("The Stranger") introduced the world to one of the first and most memorable in a long line of alienated heroes. The French-Algerian Meursault insisted on defining himself by the action the killing of an Arab ... Full Article
Lights in the Dusk
slantmagazine.com –
2007-02-06
ki Kaurismki is at it again, refurbishing his previous work and pawning it off as if it were new. His latest, Lights in the Dusk , is The Match Factory Girl without the catharsisa dry wheeze of Helsinki still life... ... Full Article
Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen, "Lights in the Dusk") is a young wife struggling with her household budget in turn of the century Sweden. When she wins a camera, she takes it to the local photography shop to sell it, but... ... Full Article