Storyline

Sweden, early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic, womanizing and sometimes violent, although ultimately loving, husband.—IFC Films

Plot Keywords

1900s, female artist, photographer, abusive husband, based on true story, worker, family relationships, male female friendship, capitalism, death, jail, unfaithful husband, suicide, character name in title, 1910s, alcoholic father, alcoholism, husband wife relationship, mother, photography

Short Review

One of those films in which nothing very much happens, but is full of character and incident all the same. It's a life - just a life - but Maria is so empathetic and portrayed with such love that we are as immersed in that life as she is.

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