The New Land

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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 5/5 Stars •  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 5/5 Stars •  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 1.5/5 Stars •  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 3/5 Stars •  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 5/5 Stars •  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 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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