The big landowner, Kristen's dad, lives in a wretched shack with a couple of nags in the yard - and his much older wife is nursing an age-old guilt, too. The wild passion at the heart of the picture would be a fizzle at a Christian am-dram camp. Sadly, the production does not quite live up to its own image: the star-crossed lovers more closely resemble a pedophile and his prey, or a sleazy playboy and his schoolgirl pick-up, than a knight and his lady. A vintage novel with a "national treasure" quality about it, and a movie version of it directed by Liv Ullman, Norway's passionate prodigy: Kristen Lavransdatter has an emblematic quality, like a national-theatre production attended by royalty.
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