Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)

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I don't care if no one is going to see this, I watched all three hours so I'm taking a topic for it thank you very much.

       confession: I'd much rather watch The Virgin Spring, The Valley of The Bees or ,heck, Conan than something like this.  That doesn't mean I don't feel it has merit.  In fact, I'm delighted to have expanded my horizons somewhat.  Director LIv Ullman took a year to plan all the sets and costumes and everything and this is the most obvious selling point.  I don't know if Norway has film awards but if they did this would most certainly win for best scenerey or whatever.   Actually they probably do and this probably won alot more awards than that, according to the blurb half the country went and saw it in the theatres.  Most of it takes place in a convent and various little huts way way out in the countryside.  The women definately didn't wear bras back then.  It's like a Phish concert at a rennassiance fair or something.  This is the worst review ever. 

  Kristin Lavransdatter is a movie but it is alot like a PBS miniseries, not that I've ever watched one.  As a guy and one with a short attention span,  one thing that kind threw me was the fact that the plot of a woman torn between her betrothed and her true love knight guy is the main story.  Its not a backdrop to medieval carnage or wizards or something.  There is really not much more to the story than a woman who is betrothed to one guy and in love with another guy and trying to figure out how to work that out.  It's 3 hours of that!  So yeah, women will probably get it, men not so much. 

     The soundtrack is really really beautiful music of the era. history buffs, europhiles, alternative soap opera fans check this one out