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SUMMARY:Weston Film Club - Sweet Land
DESCRIPTION:“Let us hope that we are preceded in this world by a love
 story.”\n\nThis is the sentiment behind Sweet Land––a project that
 took director Ali Selim and producer Robin Selim sixteen years to realize\,
 starting from the time they first read Will Weaver’s short story\, "A
 Gravestone Made of Wheat."\n\nThe film opens with some hard scenes
 involving the passing of beloved grandparents Olaf in 1968 and Inge in
 2004. It falls to their grandson Lars to liquidate the Minnesota family
 farm\, and when he finds an old hand-colored photograph\, the love story
 that preceded him is set in motion\, recalling when his grandmother Inge
 came over from Scandinavia as a mail-order bride in 1920.\n\nAs played by
 Elizabeth Reaser\, urbane and educated Inge is an awkward match for the
 shy\, taciturn Olaf. And when it is revealed that she is actually
 German––and therefore a recent enemy alien––the neighbors are
 scandalized\, as they are Norwegians determined to become upstanding
 Americans. The local minister refuses to marry them and with nowhere else
 to go\, an exasperated Inge stays on with Olaf\, causing both of them to be
 shunned by the community. Alone and facing a near-impossible harvest
 without the cooperation of their fellow farmers\, a love story
 commences.\n\nBE ADVISED--This film is rated PG\, with brief nudity\, mild
 language\, mortality\, financial peril\, and lovelorn Norwegian bachelor
 farmers.   2005\, 110 minute
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CATEGORIES:Film Screening
LOCATION:Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\,
 United States
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