http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190255/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. The Basket with Peter Coyote and Karen Allen is set during the same time period but in the Pacific Northwest farm community. It was filmed in and around the Spokane and Eastern Washington area. You can see the same prejudices, issues and dreams to make a better life in this country as farmers. I recommend that you also watch this film The Basket too. Well acted and good actors in it too. The other movie is The Bridges of Madison County. Reading the diary after the passing of parent and reacting to the surprises of their lives.I hope you like these recommendations.Thank you.

To sum it up in one sentence, this pretty much was a typical independent movie.The story about two foreigners that get to know each other works better when the story is only 15 pages or so, but gets kinda boring when stretched out to 2 hours. Even the foreclosure conflict couldn't save it from that.The characters are not particularly memorable, but at least sort of likable. In fact, the three characters I'm most likely to remember are Olaf (I chuckled at the "I sleep in da barn" line), Inga (because of the almost-nude scene), and whoever Fransden's wife was (only because she kinda looks like someone I know.) The visual style is the type that's easily going to be called "beautiful." Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At times, it seemed like it was going for a Days Of Heaven look, but didn't end up as well.The music was your typical "out in the country" fare. It sounded like the Fargo soundtrack at first, but maybe it's because Fargo's set in Minnesota too, and is more memorable.Overall, it wasn't good or bad. In fact, me and my friend joked by saying it was the most mediocre movie of all time.

Wonderful photography and excellent actors (The main actress superb) but I can not believe that even Yankees are (were) so ridiculously puritan and narrow minded.Would any red-blooded man receive his (Incredibly beautiful and intelligent) wife-to-be without a smile or a kind word? Would he refuse to use their common language (Norwegian) with her? Could they live together in a remote farm without trying to know each other, without kissing or caressing until they are legally married?The silly plot and the slow pace at which the director tells it have made this movie very dull to me.

I give it a five instead of 3 because I didn't watch all of it; I couldn't bring myself to watch anymore of it. Odds and ends: 1. The two pre-title sequences were much too long. So much so that tedium began to set in. 'Teases' should be just that; a hook to whet your interest. I also found the two sequences slightly difficult to understand. 2. I understand this was a first time director so slack must be cut. However, camera placement was poor in a lot of the set- ups.....awkwardness. 3. Music was simplistic and therefore heavy handed. 4. The cars, rented from overprotective antique car buffs, were always so spotlessly clean. Isn't this 1920 farmland America? Actually, everything I saw in my foreshortened viewing was squeaky clean and over- scrubbed. 5. Since Olaf was Norwegian and believed he was 'sent' a Norwegian bride-to-be, why wouldn't he at least speak the language to her, however shy he was? 6. Alan Cumming's character should have been named, 'Nonny Sequitur'. 7. Finally, I think director Selim was channeling Norman Rockwell cause that's what the total effect was for me, a Norman Rockwell painting.