彼得•冯•巴格称赞赫尔辛基电影是通过组合老旧胶片而展开的一个梦幻般的城市交响曲。银幕上的影像提醒着人们这个城市的过去和未来，并让人想起了失去的城市景观。纪录片里熟悉的影视人物记录下这个城市来来往往的人和城市空间永无休止的脉动，他们是对这个城市以及城市灵魂的爱的化身。那些令许多城市空间和古老建筑成为永恒的艺术家们丰富了城市不断变化的形象。（豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.