Kristin Lavransdatter

(Home Vision Cinema)

Norwegian author Sigrid Undset's 14th-century tale of a woman who weds the man she chooses instead of the one her father has selected for her won her the 1928 Nobel Prize, and Liv Ullmann makes the first of Kristin Lavransdatter's three volumes, The Bridal Wreath, into a Nobel-worthy film by tapping into Undset's essential virtues: a keen eye, brutal honesty, and an astonishing capacity to affirm. The movie is like an Icelandic saga: love and marriage, family and society, sin and redemption -- what life is all about.