This is my first ever single star review... normally I can find some sort of redeeming quality for just about any production, but finally I'm stumped. Perhaps one star for the theme of this film, which enticed me to waste almost 3 hours of my life.
I don't think I've ever sat through anything more tedious and irritating. In fact, I had to leave 20 minutes before the end as it was getting so much on my nerves. The producer and director demonstrated all the competence of a middle school drama class - they couldn't succeed better in creating a more inane and pretentious piece of garbage.
A good start would be attention to detail: there are no prairies en route NY to Minnesota, and no, you can't see the mountainscape of Montana from Minnesota either - even on a clear day. Another tip, native North American tribes don't learn Swedish at school - it's not intuitive that Swedish immigrants would insist at speaking Swedish with them when in distress.
Perhaps worst of all, these incessent out of focus close-ups on the main female character as she babbled lines of self-involved nonsense... that's not drama, that's an indicator of incompetent scene direction.
I don't think I've ever sat through anything more tedious and irritating. In fact, I had to leave 20 minutes before the end as it was getting so much on my nerves. The producer and director demonstrated all the competence of a middle school drama class - they couldn't succeed better in creating a more inane and pretentious piece of garbage.
A good start would be attention to detail: there are no prairies en route NY to Minnesota, and no, you can't see the mountainscape of Montana from Minnesota either - even on a clear day. Another tip, native North American tribes don't learn Swedish at school - it's not intuitive that Swedish immigrants would insist at speaking Swedish with them when in distress.
Perhaps worst of all, these incessent out of focus close-ups on the main female character as she babbled lines of self-involved nonsense... that's not drama, that's an indicator of incompetent scene direction.