Land

Land – French title

Land: tierra de nadie – Mexican title

Ziemia – Polish title

Land – U.K. title

Land – English title

A 2018 Italian, French, Dutch, Mexican, Qatar film co-production [Rai Cinema, Asmara Films (Rome), The Cup of Tea. To Be Continued (Paris), Topkapi Films (Amsterdam), Piano (Mexico City)]

Producers: Gianfranco Barbagallo, Gabriel Stavenhagen, Julio Chavezmontes, ChristopheAudeguis, Ginevra Elkann, Arnold Heslenfeld, Dominique Marzotto, Laurette Schillings, Frans van Gestel, Colin Maunoury, Anne Reulat, Alejandro Sánchez de la Peña, Gonzalo Alvarez Godoy, Francesca Zanza

Director: Babak Jalali

Story: Babak Jalali

Screenplay: Babak Jalali

Cinematography: Agnès Godard [color]

Music: Jozef van Wissem

Running time: 111 minutes

Story: A Native American family struggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.

Cast:

Raymond Yellow Eagle – Rod Rondeaux

Sally – Florence C.M. Klein

Wesley Yellow Eagle – James Coleman

Bettie - Gerogina Lightning

Rosie – Antonia Steinberg

Peter – Andrew J. Katers

Eli - Griffin Burns

Major Robertson – Mark Mahoney

Sam – Barnet Rogers

Dead brother – Loren Anthony

Police officer – Michael Arturo

Major Jacobs – Thomas R. Baker

Tommy – Raymond Joseph Garcia

Jane – Stephanie Harpe

Cock fight gambler – Ryan McClurkin

Derek – Michele Melega

Mark – Jake Miller

Nate – Glen Talley

Tribal police officer – Tommy Wolfe

By ayoreinf

It's a very deliberatly slow movie, taking place on a modern Indian reserve in the U.S.A. The story is as modern as possible, depicting modern day problems of modern Indians who work in the dairy of their neighbors maintaining an uneasy coexistance with very little love or respect lost between the neighbors. The story is the story of the Indians, it moves along at their pace of living. In which every action is very deliberate and carefully thought out.

It's very much like watching a slowmo train wreck. We all know it's going to end badly, and yet we can't look away. In fact the director could've decided to finish his movie five minutes later, and it would've been a down right tragedy, but he chose to end it when he did, so we can still believe there's a chance for a happier ending. It's not a rational belief, but it's the ending we all want to take place.

The actors are all very real, some of them not professional, or doing their first steps as actors, none of them is a big star, but they all play their parts perfectly. The film plays like a documentary, and in a way it is trying to be a document of this train wreck called the life of native Americans in modern day U.S.A.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exS2m3B1GoU