A movie made about us! Who’d a thunk?

Ok, really, just about some other people in another time who live in an independent way, and a summer of transition for them. Lovely if slow, wonderful characters and wonderful way the landscape is a character. People who really do live with the land (few and far between) really are changed by it.

Joan Allen is beautiful without make-up and hair-do. In the “making of” section she is made up and looks rather awful. I’m always glad to see people who look real in movies (one reason I like foreign films).

Also, who couldn’t look at Sam Elliot all day. Even if he is psychotic in this flick.

The paintings are really really nice too.