Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.... (Full plot summary below)
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Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
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| New York TimesDavid DeWittWith its exhilarating World War II narrative and performances that touch notes intimate and grand, Simon and the Oaks has an exquisite, and epic, ache. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is unabashedly sentimental and epic, and rather bold in the way it takes place during and after the Holocaust but is not defined by it. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSimon and the Oaks is not merely the story of two boys from opposite sides of the tracks. It's also a larger meditation on life's hardships and what endures: love, art and civilization. |
| Detroit NewsTom Long"Simon and the Oaks" branches out in ways unusual and interesting enough to hold your attention and then even shake it a bit. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert[A] lush, handsomely crafted middlebrow epic ... |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonArthouse appreciation will depend on a given viewer's tolerance for broad-strokes melodrama of intertwined fates that lacks the ambition and emotional complications of many similar screen works. |
| NPRElla TaylorWorst of all is the hitching of all this extravagant suffering to an inspirational ending filled with sweet regret, healing hope and some picturesque nestling in the titular oaks with the next generation. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfLoses steam the longer it tries to articulate uninteresting asides, with the effort's coming of age inclination best served on an intimate scale of unspoken tragedy. Inflating the troubles only emphasizes storytelling shortcomings. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughThe German occupation barely makes an impression in Lisa Ohlin's sluggish adaptation of Marianne Fredriksson's novel. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatSimon and The Oaks covers the various paths taken by a sensitive and smart boy and then young man in his quest for meaning. |
