Solrosen I love this movie, I have seen it several times. I enjoyed reading others reviews, many from this side of the Atlantic ocean, I was still living in Sweden when it was new (now I am in Texas, US). To see it again made me homesick, there is nothing like the Swedish countryside, it is so quiet and calm. And in that environment people like Olof just fits in so perfectly. I just love the characters, Olof because he is a warmhearted and loyal person and Helena Bergströms householder because she can see that. It is one of those movies that make you feel that Movies shouldn't be more like life, life should be more like the movies.

reeeed This WONDERFUL, beautiful, lovely film have been my all-time favorite movie ever sense the first time I saw it a couple of years ago.Olof is a lonely farmer somewhere in Sweden who have been living alone ever since his parents died. In secret he puts in an ad in the paper where he asks for a housekeeper but of course we all understand that what he really wants is a woman to love. One day Ellen shows up... A mysterious, beautiful woman who before summer is over have stolen Olofs heart. ... And seriously annoyed his best friend.This is truly a great movie! The pictures are fantastic and shows of the very best of hot, Swedish summers and sweet love between two very different people.

anderson-6 Given that this film has very recently been released on DVD, I am curious as to whether the long-standing rumours regarding Blockbuster's alleged censorship of movies (a la Walmart) are applicable to this release.SPOILER alert (sort of...)The trailers that are included with the DVD show a couple of scenes that "make sense", but that were not in the film. First there is a clip where Olaf's young friend makes a remark to him about him no longer being a virgin, and second, there is a quick clip of Olaf and Ellen making love in the rain, with him pleading, "teach me, teach me". I can assure you that neither scene was in the DVD -- but around the time they would have been applicable, there were several moments that were sort of "herky-jerky", and seemed to skip ahead into the scene. What also seemed strange is that Blockbuster marked the film as "Youth Restricted", but what was shown in the movie was incredibly tame, i.e., there was nary a nipple even shown.So my question is, did anybody else notice this? Or did I just happen to get a DVD that just happened to be "smudged" at the only sexy scenes in the movie?

JanneR The three leading actors all perform well but Rolf Lassgård makes an outstanding performance of the illiterate farmer who has never had a woman. Seeing this film in wintertime makes you long for a summer in the countryside. The photography is also of very high quality.