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      The New Land

      PG Released Feb 26, 1972 2h 41m Drama Western List
      100% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 86% Audience Score 250+ Ratings In this sprawling sequel to the 1971 film "The Emigrants," Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife, Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While clearing and farming their land, they must deal with the brutal realities of American frontier life, including a fierce Sioux uprising and the bloody Civil War, along with family squabbles and the lure of the gold fields of California. Read More Read Less

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker Troell is a film master whose films are overflowing yet calm and balanced; they're rapturously normal. Jan 20, 2022 Full Review David Elliott Chicago Daily News Troell's victory (and that of his wonderful actors) is to show us a world we would not really want to live in but that we can cherish because of the people who did live in it so humanly. Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Zita Short InSession Film If you’re like me and you can do without all the bloodshed and aggression, this one might be for you. Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight It’s not hard to see what side Troell is fighting on. He stays faithful to his countrymen while chastising their ethnocentrism and religious solidarity. Rated: 3.5/4 Dec 25, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com There's a proud, authentic resilience within these characters making them all the more compelling as they face the arduous realities of a brave new world. Rated: 4/5 Oct 9, 2020 Full Review John Simon Esquire Magazine I never once looked at my watch or wished the film would end. One is much less easily affected when viewing a film alone, but in that empty little room I repeatedly wept and rejoiced. Jul 23, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Alec B Just as unflinching as "The Emigrants" but there's more of an opportunity to experiment with style (especially during a harrowing flashback sequence). Also while it does temper the hopeful ending of its predecessor this movie still finds moments of joy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Jonah Sage D Had no idea what I was going into watching this, knowing nothing about it other than that Liv Ullman and Max von Sydow and it was set in the 1850s. Wow, what a movie! Highly recommended. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/17/23 Full Review Dom The film is very boring. It kind of goes into the stereotypes of a immigrant's story to America stretched out for the course of a long three hours, six hours if you include the first film. The dragging out of the story is a problem that continues from the first film, but this film has even less world building than the already scant worldbuilding there was in that film. Like the first movie, this film also had a lot of potential: they could have done a Civil War story, industrialization story, high society costume story, a story about the next generation, but nope, it's mostly about the same characters struggling, on a farm, just this time they are in America. And guess what? We get to watch these three main characters die of old age as big world events (the railroad, the Civil War, Lincoln), gets either sideshowed or doesn't appear at all. I also believe the director mishandled one of the main characters in this despite his personality being completely antithetical to his outcome (hint hint: the brother who went West). The going West part is very generic and was perhaps the worst part of the film. The experimentalism was very unnecessarily in the film that they might as well gone straight and the film might have been better off because of that. After the partial dredge of the first film, I completely expected to see our main characters rise up through high American society, but just like the first film, what a disappointment. The only reason I remember this film better than the first is because of just how bad the brother was written in this, really just Season 8 of Game of Thrones-esque. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/30/23 Full Review david f This continuation of The Emigrants chronicles the lives led in America by the Swedish farmers who left Europe behind in the earlier film. Again, this is a slog but patient viewers will be rewarded with a quiet, satisfying conclusion when Karl Oskar reaches the end of his long, fruitful life. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Just as unflinching as "The Emigrants" but there's more of an opportunity to experiment with style (especially during a harrowing flashback sequence). Also while it does temper the hopeful ending of its predecessor this movie still finds moments of joy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I first saw it when it was released in the US during one of my college summer vacations. Been wanting to see it again for years. Still great. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In this sprawling sequel to the 1971 film "The Emigrants," Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife, Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While clearing and farming their land, they must deal with the brutal realities of American frontier life, including a fierce Sioux uprising and the bloody Civil War, along with family squabbles and the lure of the gold fields of California.
      Director
      Jan Troell
      Producer
      Art L. Malmsten
      Screenwriter
      Bengt Forslund, Vilhelm Moberg, Jan Troell
      Distributor
      Warner Bros.
      Production Co
      Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Drama, Western
      Original Language
      Swedish
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 26, 1972, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 14, 2017
      Runtime
      2h 41m