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Sweet Land
Directed by
Ali Selim
PG
2005
1h 50m
Drama
,
Romance
7.1
85%
83%
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In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
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Cast of Sweet Land
Elizabeth Reaser
Inge Altenberg
Lois Smith
Inge (as an older woman)
Patrick Heusinger
Young Lars
Tim Guinee
Olaf Torvik
Stephen Pelinski
Old Lars
Alan Cumming
Frandsen
Ned Beatty
Harmo
John Heard
Minister Sorrensen
Robert Hogan
Olaf Torvik (Old)
Paul Sand
Frandsen (as an older man)
Jodie Markell
Donna Torvik
Sage Kermes
Mae Torvik
Kirsten Frantzich
Lee
Stephen Yoakam
Einar Torvik
Karen Landry
Rose Torvik
James Cada
Minister Thorwald
Debbie DeLisi
Sarah Torvik
Charlotta Mohlin
Else Jorgensdatter
Tom Gilroy
Comrade Vik
James Bakkom
Station Manager
John Paul Gamoke
Brekke
Barbara Kingsley
Disa
Stephen D'Ambrose
Clerk of the Court
Alex Kingston
Brownie
Patrick Coyle
Martin
Raye Birk
Postal Clerk
Dirk Reignier
LaMotte
Palmer Grinager
Auction Spotter
Tony Papenfuss
Gentleman Bidder
Wayne A. Evenson
Judge Sundby
Joel Thingvall
Swedish Farmer (uncredited)
Sweet Land Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
As opposed to the bulk of low-budget films, the look here is lush and beautifully crafted; even the make-up is excellent.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A film of uncommon grace, one that transports you to an America that seems innately familiar even though you have never seen it depicted on-screen quite like this before.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Sweet Land is an unusual look at love and how it can unexpectedly develop. Those for whom the concept of an arranged marriage is foreign will get a little history lesson on the immigrant experience watching this sweetly engrossing film.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
[Director Ali] Selim grounds the story so firmly in its characters that he never hits a false note.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Sweet and low-key, Sweet Land is a movie that likely will leave you wishing you liked it more.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A lovely, old-fashioned farm romance quietly doubling as a comment on immigration and American identity.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
... a beautifully photographed film ... that celebrates its regional identity.
Arizona Republic
Annemarie Moody
A spare yet meaningful script, subtly deep performances and a starkly beautiful landscape combine in Sweet Land to tell a love story that is as much about the land as it is about two people.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
As Sweet Land demonstrates, bigotry is vulnerable, and love is universal. Sweet Land is a fervent movie poem to that love -- and to family, land, lost times and old beginnings.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's beautiful.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
As empty and beautiful as the picturesque Minnesota terrain it's so clearly taken with.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
If its drama of German and Norwegian newcomers on the plains of southern Minnesota is modest enough, it's also clearly a labor of love.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
There's a tartness at the center of Sweet Land, Ali Selim's unabashedly sentimental tale of a mail-order bride and the community that eventually comes to accept her.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Selim's script doesn't hit new territory, but beautiful cinematography takes it just far enough.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Intelligently written, brilliantly cast and thesped story of a German mail order bride in a Norwegian-American community in Minnesota just after WWI never hits a wrong note.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Sweet Land is gorgeously shot and directed without a false note, but its chief virtue is the beautiful and little-known [Elizabeth] Reaser.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Selim, cinematographer David Tumbelty and a superb cast work together to create a believable, poignant and haunting evocation of a long-lost way of life.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
If Terrence Malick could ever banish the wispy art clouds from his brain and give in to the storyteller inside, perhaps he might make a movie as stirring as Sweet Land.
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
Directing with a light comic touch and a palpable affection for the characters, Selim draws pitch-perfect acting from a large cast (John Heard, Ned Beatty, Alan Cumming, Alex Kingston, and Lois Smith) and achieves breathtaking levels of color and clarity.
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