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URL:https://westonmedia.org/hub/events/weston-film-club-sweet-land/
SUMMARY:Weston Film Club - Sweet Land
DESCRIPTION:Sweet Land\n\n\n 2005\, 110 minutes\n\n“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.\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Arts, Crafts, Culture,Film Screening
LOCATION:Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\,
 United States
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