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Sweet Land

2005

Ali Selim

Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Alex Kingston ...

6.7

121

Drama When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision – sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the stories that she had passed on to him. Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf but her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers makes her an object of suspicion in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"The film’s guileless, heartfelt style veers perilously close to corniness at times, but the superb cast (...) dares you to mock."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Here is a nicely photographed, but bland, insipid and weirdly passive-aggressive little film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Ronnie Scheib Variety	"Intelligently written, brilliantly cast and thesped (...) [It] never hits a wrong note."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"However beautiful the cinematography, commercial director Ali Selim's debut feature is a bland, drawn-out throwback to Jan Troell's '70s epics"	NEG
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"[Selim] makes his feature directing debut with this simple and beautifully paced drama, letting the characters breathe and the land speak."	POS

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