
As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...... (Full plot summary below)
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA tender and touching film about the blooming of love, the poignant tug of place, and the challenges of openness in a rural Midwest community in the 1920s. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldFirst-time director Ali Selim does an exceptional job throughout, his movie has the balance, uncluttered leanness and emotional impact of a Willa Cather short story, and it's no surprise that it has been nominated for Best First Feature in the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneJeff StricklerThis is an intelligently told story that relies on intriguing characters and enticingly mellow pacing that reflects the story's setting. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirIt's winsome, sentimental and lovely in a minor-key way. |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonThis is the sort of quiet independent film that comes and goes before anyone notices. I hope that doesn't happen here, because Sweet Land is a nicely understated but loving look at the immigrant experience in this country. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel CaterSweet and low-key, Sweet Land is a movie that likely will leave you wishing you liked it more. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelMichele KennerSweet Land is a lovely, lovely small story about discrimination, assimilation and acceptance in the plains. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfExceptionally photographed and remarkably performed by actors Tim Guinee and Elizabeth Reaser, Sweet Land is modest, but demonstrative, eager to detail a love story that sustains for a lifetime. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasSelim erases the cultural barrier between the eras and makes Olaf and Inge's tentative, forbidden romance seem as beautiful and as tender, and as urgent, as anything that might happen in the present day. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanforda gentle, well-observed drama... old-fashioned but in a good sense. ...Reaser and Guinee are such open, animated actors that Inge and Olaf's emotions are easily understandable even if their words are not. |