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When Desirée, intellectual librarian with a mania for cleaning, meets and reluctantly falls for Benny, busy farmer with 24 milk cows and a 95-hour working week, everything is set up for a huge cultural clash. But what can they do when the sparks between them feels like "leaning against an electric fence"?

I thought that this dilemma was well illustrated, though sometimes a bit exaggerated - I don't believe that talking with your mouth full is typical "farmer behavior" - and the differences in life style between the two contracting parties gave rise to quite a few laughs in the movie theater. This movie also clearly illustrates how our opinion about someone is always colored by our prejudice, even if it's just unconsciously.

I recommend this film to everyone who likes Swedish movies, and also to those of you who, like me, are more sceptical to our nations film industry - this is a good one!

Another Swedish movie from the Stockholm horizon about a small city in the north of Sweden. Sometimes one wonders if you are supposed to laugh at the province and be assured in your prejudices. Probably that's the creator's idea.

This is about the dirty farmer who meets the librarian living an "unreal" life, which he obviously isn't. There is absolutely no surprises here. From the beginning to the end you know what will happen the next three minutes. OK acting by Elisabeth Carlsson and especially by Michael Nyqvist, but you still feel disappointed like you thought you would.

This Swedish film gives you a feel-good factor of the highest order. No longer think, Swedish film, therefore culturally long-winded Ingmar Bergman. This happy-go-lucky film takes you on a whirlwind tour of fun and friviolity to sadness and seriousness and back again. You will love the characters and the story lines. The pace is swift, never boring and you hope that it will never finish. Watching and listening in either Swedish or using the subtitles works very well. You will be telling yourself that, yes, it is possible to watch a Swedish film twice! I watched it seven times! It is a popular film for the members in the Swedish language group that I attend. Did you enjoy the style of Bridget Jones's Diary or Notting Hill? Then don't miss this film either. I am ready for the sequel!

this is just lovely. This movie will warm your heart and soul! This amazing feeling that Benny and his librarian share is really something to search for! Watch it now, it's not just sweet..it's a really funny movie too with such great lines!

This little film is about the young farmer, who lives alone on his farm and seldom sees anyone, except the couple that on the other side of lake, if we don't count the ghost of his mother, who has been dead a while.She gives him advice in time of crisis, trying to make his life more bearable.

A chance meeting when visiting his parents' grave, he exchange a quick smile with a similarly lonely person, a young woman who is there visting her husband's grave. This woman is totally unlike him, very urban, very modern, having an intellectual job (librarian), with nil knowledge of the harsh life on a small farm, but their relation, when it at last developes into something - after many misses and misunder- standings - is very explosive, and at times troublesome, as their two totally different ways of life clash and interaction with their respective friends (simple farmers versus intellectuals of various sorts) is not that easy. Neither are their totally different goals in life very compatible - he wants a family and she says she will not commit herself at all!

Elisabet Carlsson, who plays the mondaine librarian, does so with such gusto and feeling, so much humour and cold logic that she mostly reminds me of Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich.

The farmer is well played by Michael Nyqvist, who I personally only remember from minor roles before this.I doff my hat - as good acting as Niclas Cage in his better moments.

It also, I think,shows that the two are long time friends, as the entire film is superb! Maybe the ending could have been different (it is different from the book it is based on, anyway), but a car chase, where a guy is racing to stop his great love disappear from his life, is always OK!

I have never lauded a Swedish film before, but I do it this time: Go and see it, or buy it on DVD - it has English subtitles already! A must to see, if there ever was one!

This film touched my heart in many ways.

This film has showed whatever the different world you may have, love overcomes all the obstacles in the world.

There aren't so many films who can be so god like this one.

The actors are very good in their rolls.

Honestly I watched this movie because I had seen Michael Nyqvist's performance in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies and I was wondering if he had been a good actor before those or they were the ones that kind of "made him". I have to say that he indeed was a brilliant actor in 2002 when this movie came out. On the top of that this film has actually a female lead (I think Elisabet Carlsson deserves a lot of credit because her acting is outstanding too) and they are both very believable in their roles. All right, the story is far from being original. We have seen two people from different backgrounds hang out before like a thousand times. So the story is the reason why I gave the movie only eight stars because the acting is spot on (not even the supporting actors make a single fault). Dialogues and camera work are all excellent. Finally, I have to say I'm so glad that every Swedish review I have read so far was really positive. I have studied Swedish at the university and we were taught that Swedish women get offended when receiving old fashioned courtship and this movie proves exactly the opposite thing. Eight stars and a great movie.

This is a truly lovely movie that warms the heart. Highly recommended. Watch the love between the farmer and the librarian grow and develop! This is the kind of movie that leaves you filled with happiness and warmth. See it!

This is a truly heartwarming film. I'm not the type that watches movies more than once or twice, but I've watched this at least 6 times. The soundtrack itself is worth listening to. It seems odd that it wasn't more popular outside Scandinavia. Perhaps if it had been dubbed into English it would have been more popular... If you are the type who doesn't watch something because you have to read subtitles, GET OVER IT! This is a great film, it will pull you in and make you think and remember to value the little things in your life. You will fall in love with the characters. The texting misinterprets more than one bit of humor, but it's easy enough to follow along anyway. Elisabet Carlsson (as Desirée) and Michael Nyqvist (as Benny) do an incredible job of bringing this story to life.

A widow age 37 meets a guy at the church yard, she by her husbands grave and he by his parents (grabben i graven bredvid = the guy in the grave next door). She is a sofisticated librerean, she likes her italian espresso (with a twist of lemon), he likes his tea by introducing some teabags in his mouth, and placing the mouth under the hot water. This is a charming love story between the town and the country.

This film is filmed in the north of swedens biggest city, Luleå. I'm from Luleå myself, and that makes it all so much funnier. A farmer (played by Michael Nyqvist)meets a girl on the cementery, in the sabbath next to his mothers. The eat a sausage and the whole film ends up pretty good !