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Solomon & Gaenor (1999)

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A romantic drama about love that blooms against all odds, Solomon and Gaenor is set in Wales in 1911. Solomon (Ioan Gruffudd) is a door-to-door salesman who peddles fabric, and Gaenor (Nia Roberts) is the meek but unhappy daughter of a laboring family. The two meet while Solomon is making his rounds, and it's love at first sight, despite the fact he can barely speak Welsh, having been raised in an English-speaking village. Matters become more complicated when it's discovered Solomon is a Jew;

R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Directed By: Paul Morrison (III)

In Theaters: Dec 31, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Jan 30, 2001

Sony Pictures Classics

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Critic Reviews for Solomon & Gaenor

All Critics (47) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (8) | DVD (1)

A beautiful, gentle love story, fueled by the palpable chemistry between Gruffudd and Roberts.

December 28, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Unrelentingly grim, but effective love story.

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Solomon and Gaenor is a film that sincerely captures the magic of the discovery of pure love, and also depicts so painfully what happens when ethnicism and hate work against it. In this case the boy is from an Orthodox Jewish shop owner/peddler family recently escaped from the pogroms of Russia; and the girl is from a

December 25, 2007