Larry Thompson

Sentimental, yes, but a balm of Gilead for your pains about yourselves or Ukrainians and suffocating Russians. We loved it; the actors were 5 star quality.

I guess from here on infidelity is the glue that keeps all the fluff together. I can't see how the producer sustained 6 episodes on this fragile plot.

The other comment are helpful. I think the professor/father's speech , quoting William James is pivotal. Rarely does social media forewarn the youth of our day that tomorrow and the years that follow until death are built upon those daily decisions we make. We are the consequence, the sum-total of our daily moral decisions. Worthwhile for anyone 14-15 and older. There's still time for adults to draw from a world that spends so much time in the two girls' youth.

wonderful cadence, unusually soft voices. A smooth crime film and a surprise for me.

Nature and music both symbolize and explain the various critical moments of the young Third Wife's journey toward womanhood. But she begins as a 14 year old wife. I love the tone and the atmosphere, the utter quiet at times, the near whispers of love and instruction, of heartache and even death. Wonderful cadence.

So why is Maria Forte's novel the same title [2016] but nothing close to the Netflix movie? What a downer after watching the film 3 times, falling in love with good, solid immigrants fleeing war and financial collapse. I loved every character, coming away with hope in humanity, in the actors' courage and will to survive. Don't confuse the "novel" with the film--no convergence. star rating for novel is 2; film is 5--easily.

Funny look back in time when we all loved silly British comedies.

Aa film that tells truth about how a lot of good, even great marriages slide, literally slide Into divorce. And they have only the most silly, often vague notions about why. Immaturity? Watch these two fine actors walk the tightrope, taking gunfire from avaricious attorneys, confused parents and friends, only to learn for themselves who they are and what their marriage really is.

No, she doesn't break because of the "lavish life style she misses." The film moves, deeply instead, into the day-to-day struggle of two people who love each other. They have a child; they take on a church that has collapsed physically and spiritually; they find themselves in the middle of a workers' strike, a megalomanic factory owner who won't budge. Hell, it's life in the late 19th century in Sweden. The wife lays the groundwork for a wife's right to be herself and the struggle of a man of fragile emotions and lack of confidence. But they endure: their "best" intentions win out and they survive. In these days of less than 50% marriages in the USA, it a halcyon call for guts and patience and love between two people who make a contract--and keep it.

Slow paced but captures the desert Christ among the poor. Like negative space in a painting, the few words and the sand storms reinforce the humility and profound needs of the poor, echoing the millions of lost, wandering souls in search of a Promised Land who fill our newspapers these days. Evokes compassion and the same silence that pervades this fine, quiet film.