Love story. Subtle, nice and warm. A spring story. Delicate nuances, basic gestures and lost feelings. In fact, pieces of a world's definition. A woman and two men. In summer. A house. And some words. A film about solitude and search of happiness. Rolf Lassgard in a touching role. Helena Bergstrom as a sensitive servant for who the past is great shadow. A film with apple pie taste and spices flavor. Show of modest life and small desires, delicate emotions and childish air. Time as water of memories.Memories as pieces of personal game. Words like the fly of silence. A way. And some words. Then, the peace. As bread, warm summer, letters of a message - testimony of old desire. All under the sun of a lost land.

Under the Sun is a good film, deliberately paced. The lead, who plays a farmer, in particular, does a fine job.The movie goes out of its way to avoid nudity in the love scenes, which stikes me a kinda coy. Nevertheless, characters are quite well established. Every action seems to spring from the character's nature, not the need for a plot twist.The actress who plays a newspaper clerk also should be singled out for praise.I prefered the direcor's "House of Angels" set in contemporary times. However setting the movie in the past allows the director some sly commentary on a character's fate after the events in the movie take place.

This film touched my heart. Set in rural Sweden in the mid '50s and beautifully telling the tale of shy, reluctant love, the jealousy between friends and the claustrophobic agony of illiteracy, the film leaves you with the hope that just sometimes the innocent might prevail over the cunning. As a bonus, on top of the psychological subtlety that Nutley handles so well, you are also treated to the beauty of a landscape still remembered and missed.Nutley elegantly suggests outcomes of actions without overstating it, like when he lets one of his characters mention that he signed on as a crew member of Andrea Doria – which went under in 1956, the year described in the film.Paradoxically, no Swedish director has ever succeeded in describing the soul of the Swedish people or painting the beauty of the Swedish countryside as brilliantly – or lovingly, for that matter - as Colin Nutley has.

One of the best movies I have seen for a long time. The warm humor, makes you feel good. Both Helena and Rolf are charming, and you believe they are Olof and Ellen. A movie I would like to see many times.SEE IT.