Kristin Lavransdatter
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Actor: Anne Kokkinn, Bjørn Jenseg, Elisabeth Matheson, Erland Josephson, Per KvaernesDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Norwegian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 187 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of Kristin Lavransdatter
Movie Review: One of the ten best films of the Nineties !
Summary: 5 Stars
Liv Ullman an authentic icon about performance concerns , directed this superb film adapted from the homonymous novel of Sigrid Unset.
At the early years of XIV Century in Gudbrand Valley , Norwegian , Kristin is educated to preserve the name and the honor of the family and accepts with any trouble , the decision of her father to a marry engagement her with Simon Darre , the son of another landowner . But you know there are terrible forces through a chain of events which will lead her to a convent . Eventually she will fall in love with Eralend Nikulausson , the consummate seductor and father of three sons .
Filmed with a discrete sumptuosity and illuminated by Sven Nykvist and even you will beware the tremendous influence of previous Bergman films , the movie maintains its dramatic cohesion and expressive force .
Winner of the special Grand Prix of the Americas in Montreal and Grand Norwegian Critics in Haugesund .
Summary of Kristin Lavransdatter
Based on a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter tells a love story set against the backdrop of 14th-century Norway. After her childhood sweetheart is killed, Kristin (Elisabeth Matheson) enters a nunnery to postpone her arranged marriage to a man she doesn't love. On a trip to town, she meets Erlend (Bjørn Skagestad), who is immediately smitten with her. Though she discovers that Erlend is in disgrace, she falls in love with him and they find themselves in carnal embrace. Against all social and religious forces, they struggle to make their love possible. Directed by Liv Ullmann (director of Private Confessions, star of Ingmar Bergman's Persona and Cries and Whispers), the movie benefits from its richly realized depiction of medieval life. Despite her limited status in this world, Kristin is no blushing maiden; when she repels an attempted rape by bashing her attacker's head with a stone, her face has the fury of a warrior queen, and her passion for Erlend is all-consuming. Kristin Lavransdatter may be too reverential toward its source material to have any consistent vigor as a film, and it's a bit of a soap opera (the religious intensity at times verges on the Gothic), but at its best it has a rawness that captures the pain and joy of life (and love) in brutal circumstances. Beautifully filmed by the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist (whose credits range from Autumn Sonata to Sleepless in Seattle). --Bret FetzerSimilar DVD Movies
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