The New Land (Nybyggarna)

I can't believe Jan Troell made 395 minutes of Oscar nominated pure cinema and nobody has seen it.

Addison

New beginnings sound great in our minds, in our dreams, and in our deepest desires, but just like everything in life, they come with challenges, especially when you are a foreigner arriving in a new land that is, in many ways, very different from the place you once called…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Jan Troell’s “The New Land” crosses the oceans of the world and the ages of life - but at the end of its six hour odyssey.... there is no freedom from the master of all men: love.  A sequel to Troell’s “The Emigrants;” the two instalments were so laudably received on…

theriverjordan

Utterly captivating and almost indescribably beautiful from start to finish. Maybe it’s just because I now have the whole picture, the full story, but I feel as though this is even stronger than The Emigrants. Troell takes us to social, spiritual, and moral dilemmas…

David

Criterion Collection Spine #797 (Foreign language film) The epic story of a Swedish immigrant family continues as they face the struggles of pioneer life, while laying down roots in the American frontier. "We were meant to move here. We must have neither regret…

Justin Peterson

The New Land is one of my favorite films of all time. It also has my favorite fictional scene of all time (I’ll talk about it more in the spoiler section). It is incredibly profound on many different levels. The heart of this film is Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann’s…

Ford H

After watching it a third time, The New Land is still an amazing experience, but now I'm starting to wonder if I prefer The Emigrants? I think I might move it out of my top 10 and place it next to The Emigrants. We'll see. In any case, the film is one of the best to explore…

Ford H

The ongoing chronicle of such unvarnished odyssey, The New Land picks up where The Emigrants left off, following these figures as they begin to get established in the eponymous New World of the American frontier. Much of what I said about The Emigrants applies here too…

legolas

The New Land is an epic poem of self-sacrifice and insurmountable idealism in the face of overwhelming odds. The family lives by a lake in the wilderness of Minnesota where their only neighbors are other Swedish immigrants and stereotypical Indians. If The Emigrants was…

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