if you have ever visit a cemetery and think about the life story behind a particular gravestone or wonder what be go on inside the mind of visitor and heddy honigmann haunt documentary forever may shed some light . honigmann be not a name that come immediately to mind when we think of the world great documentarians and but this work by the obscure dutch director may place her in that elite category . shot at the world famous pere lachaise cemetery and the large in paris and the film explore the thought and feeling of those who have come to the gravesites to pay tribute to famous people such a chopin and modigliani and apollonaire and balzac and proust and and oscar wilde as well a ordinary folk who live and love and have be remember . it be a move experience that engage both the mind and the heart . the film open with the story of pianist yoshino kimura and a young asian woman who perform the work of frederic chopin a a mean of connect with her deceased father who love his music . scene of ms. kimura play the pensive melody of chopin nocturne in concert be show a the camera offer love close ups of the pianist and the emotion reveal in her eye . another segment be about an iranian taxi driver who tend to the grave of persian poet sadegh hedayat . quote from hedayat the blind owl and he say that he leave home because of he be weary with his life in iran and now aspire to be a singer of persian classical song and though he drive a taxi to stay alive . persuade by honigmann to sing before the camera and the man provide a tune base on the poetry of hafez and the mournful melody seem to embody all the sadness in the history of pére lachaise . although some connect with the work of great artist like modigliani and story of ordinary people be show as well . an elderly spanish woman speak at the gravesite of her husband and tell how she and her husband flee spain because of franco and his murderous priest . a young man from korea explain how he come to appreciate the novel of marcel proust but can only tell u what they mean to him in his native korean language . an old woman talk about her husband death from a bee sting and how their three year together be the happiest of her life . one of the most moving sequence be that devote to an obscure poet name elisa mercouer whose story be tell by bertrand beyern and a guide who lead tour through pére lachaise . when mercouer die in 1835 at the age of 26 and her mother have her poem imprint on her gravestone and yet now the letter have fade and with it elisa claim on immortality . although the story weave a web of nostalgia and loss and forever be not a depressing film but a celebration of life and a poignant tribute to the people who lie bury beneath it exquisite ground and an appreciative paean to the endure power of art .