‘Growth of the Soil’ Review: Norway’s Oscar Entry Is a Robustly Classical, Weatherbeaten Rural Epic

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What happened

The wind deserves above-the-title billing in “Growth of the Soil” — even in the most serene scenes of Hans Petter Moland’s muscular period epic, you can hear it rattling and wheezing and moaning away in the background, or at the very least, you think you can.

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  • Reported by Variety and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:43:26 UTC.

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