The children learn at a young age they are tethered to the land through pain. It is violent, but necessary - and also, admittedly, a little funny.
Though she has no rock to knock her head upon, it's clear that Nina does not belong in the rural parts of her native country.
These films both feel epic in scope, perhaps because of the wild nature of the landscapes they inhabit, though they both take place within the timespan of just a single week.
For Walter and Nina, characters who straddle the physical borders of where they live as well as the metaphysical borders of their place in society, these weeks are quite possibly the worst of their lives.
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