Sweet Land doesn't have kick to it

10 April 2012

A shy orphan, Inge (Elizabeth Reaser), arrives in Minnesota in the Twenties, expecting to be married to Olaf (Tim Guinee), a Norwegian farmer in need of a wife. Unluckily for her, she’s German and, thanks to a chance meeting, happens to be clutching papers for the American Socialist Party, so their wedding is nixed.

What follows is a love story that sometimes proves edgy (there are shades of John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath) but is more often blandly sweet. Reaser has a lovely face but her character remains out of reach. Alan Cumming and Alex Kingston (as Inge and Olaf’s fertile friends) provide the honied ham.

Sweet Land
Cert: PG

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