Sweet Land (2005)

Directed by

Ali Selim

Genre

independent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young German woman travels to rural Minnesota in the 1920s to marry a Norwegian farmer she has never met. The two must navigate their own shyness and their neighbors' suspicions as they slowly build a life together.

gentleromanticslow-pacedearthytenderbittersweetnostalgicquiet

What happens

Sweet Land is a 2005 American independent period drama film written and directed by Ali Selim. It is an adaptation of the 1989 short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver. The film stars Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, John Heard, Alex Kingston and Alan Cumming. It premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 21, 2005, and went into limited release on December 1, 2006. The film won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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