Box Office, 11/01/2006, p.122, "[S]exy and insightful about physical desire....[The film] will please moviegoers yearning for well told, wholesome but not necessarily prudish fare."
New York Times, 07/20/2007, p.4D, 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his labor of love seems influenced by Terence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN in all the right ways."
Entertainment Weekly, 10/27/2006, p.55, "SWEET LAND is a movie of extraordinary tenderness, in which Reaser and Guinee, using a language of looks, make you happy to think about what love once might have been. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly, 12/292/006, p.108, Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[T]ouching chords of collective memory about love, ancestry, and the American immigrant dream."
New York Times, 10/18/2006, p.E6, "[With a] guileless, heartfelt style....SWEET LAND celebrates a gutsy, old-fashioned sort of love, one born of backbreaking work and shared difficulties."
Theatrical Release: October 13, 2006 (Limited)
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish, French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries - Ali Selim - Director; Elisabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee - Stars
Behind the Scenes - "Labor of Love: The Making of SWEET LAND"
Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer
The traumatic experiences of a woman who moved from Norway to Minnesota for a prearranged marriage in the early 1920s are the subject matter for this moving drama.