Heartland
Year: 1979
Director: Richard Pearce
Country of origin: United States
Enriched subtitles
In 1910, a determined young widow packs up her daughter and moves out to the unsettled frontier lands of Wyoming to take a job as the housekeeper on a ranch. Everything in this movie affirms life. Perhaps that is why Heartland can also be so unblinking in its consideration of death, and this movie contains several scenes that can shock some audiences because of their forthright realism. We see a pig slaughtered, a calf birthed, cattle skinned, and a half-dead horse left out in the blizzard because there is simply nothing to feed it. It contains countless small details of farming life that sometimes work better than dialogue to flesh out the characters. “Heartland” is a big, robust, joyous movie about people who make other movie heroes look tentative.
Source: adapted from Roger Ebert.
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