Eternity

Also known as Éternité

Eternity is a 2016 French-Belgian romantic historical drama film written and directed by Tran Anh Hung, and based on the 1995 novel L'Élégance des veuves by Alice Ferney.

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Eternity (French: Éternité) is a 2016 French-Belgian romantic historical drama film written and directed by Tran Anh Hung, and based on the 1995 novel L'Élégance des veuves ("The Elegance of Widows") by Alice Ferney.

The film follows two generations of characters over a century. The cast is led by Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent as the focus of each time period, together with Jérémie Renier, Pierre Deladonchamps and Irène Jacob. Tran Nu Yen Khe, the director's wife, served as the narrator and art director for the film.

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Cast

Audrey Tautou as Valentine

Bérénice Bejo as Gabrielle

Mélanie Laurent as Mathilde

Jérémie Renier as Henri

Pierre Deladonchamps as Charles

Irène Jacob as Gabrielle's mother

Valérie Stroh as Mathilde's mother

Arieh Worthalter as Jules

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Valentine's mother

Thibault de Montalembert as Valentine's father

Tran Nu Yen Khe as Narrator

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 5 critics' reviews are positive.

The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction in 2017 Magritte Awards.

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Also known as Éternité

Notable quotes

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.”
— Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907), Chapter XX
“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”
— John Donne, Book of Devotions, Meditation 14 (1624)
“Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.”
— Reginald Heber, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
— Norman Fitzroy Maclean in A River Runs Through It
“The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.”
— Jean Paul Richter, reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 213
“Eternity! — Didn't it give you the cold shivers?”
— Tennessee Williams, in Summer and Smoke (1948)

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