If you plan on renting movies this weekend, be sure to put this one on your list:
Sweet Land
What a lovely testimony to the fact that a powerful love story can be told without any sort of gratuitousness. And it's got Lutherans! Even Manny enjoyed this movie, which should go far in commending it as he usually doesn't go for movies in which nothing is exploding. It is the best film I have seen in quite a while. As a caution ladies, grab the Kleenex early - you've been warned!
As a side note to any language enthusiasts, you might want to take note of how the different languages (English, German, and Norwegian) are used. The director accomplished drawing the audience in to the plight of the protagonists by NOT using subtitles. It drove home the point that these two people could not understand each other and raised the level of the viewer's frustration to that of the characters'. That very much impressed me, but then again, I'm a geek like that.
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