A resilient character she doesn't want to go to America until one of her four children unexpectedly dies.

She plays Kristina as someone open to the world's lessons. However, the voiceover does sometimes grate as it feels like a clunky way to direct the audience to think about specific themes.Īt the heart of the film is a central performance of some magnitude by Lisa Carlehed. Avoiding parody, Poppe always manages to stop himself from going full Malick in what is a sensitive and stimulating adaptation of the first novel. Not one to be put off by making cinematic comparisons (after all, that's the bread and butter of critics, and for this record this reviewer has not seen Troell's films), Poppe's cinema at times threatens to veer into Terrence Malick territory with the way cinematographer John Christian Rosenlund shoots nature, with a sequence showing its wonders before a sex scene, and a voiceover used to give access to the thoughts of Kristina. In Sweden at least, the original film is so revered that the Norwegian director was on a hiding to nothing.

Upon its Swedish release, most reviews did a side-by-side comparison between the 1971 film and Poppe's version, leaving some observers (unfairly from a critic's perspective) wondering which text they were reviewing. In 19, director Jan Troell adapted the four tomes into two acclaimed movies starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. The four books in the series published between 19 are considered Swedish literature classics, telling the story of a Swedish family at the forefront of a wave of Scandinavians who crossed the Atlantic in the middle of the 19th Century, with the promise of free land in Minnesota to build property and a booming economy.

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