The movie is somewhat static and overloaded-and, despite an excellent cast, almost all the performances are stilted. Oddly, "Sweet Country," set in 1973, seems less contemporary, less visually and dramatically alive, than [Michael Cacoyannis]' "Electra" and "Iphigenia," set in the Greek classical era. Cacoyannis' dialogue here is stiff and labored and the casting has the same bizarre multinationalism as an old Hollywood "prestige" adaptation-like Sam Wood's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," where Spanish guerrillas were impersonated by, among others, a Swede, two Russians, a Pole, a Maltese and a Greek. Here, we're shown a "Chilean" family, the Arayas, composed of a French father, Jean-Pierre Aumont; a Greek mother, Irene Papas; and two daughters, Eva and Monica, played by American Joanna Pettet and French-Canadian Carol Laure.