A movie review in 199 words (more or less)

As it is in Heaven
     Racheal and I watched this movie last night and enjoyed it very much.  It is a Swedish drama, with English subtitles, telling the story of the character Daniel Dareus, who grew up loving music and living in a tiny village where he was harassed for his musicality.  He eventually leaves with his widowed mother and becomes a famous conductor throughout Europe.
    His intense emotional life in music begins to effect his health in his 40's, and strangely drives him back to the place of his youth where he buys an old elementary school to live in and to hopefully recover and relax.
    He's soon asked though to lead the local church choir (not his forte) which is a cornucopia full of differing personalities and backgrounds: the pastor's wife, the local hardware store owner, an abused wife, an overly prudish single woman, and a younger, kind-hearted "party girl".
    The film gloriously shows forth a group of Adam's descendants that grow close and personal through candid honesty, song and patience with one anothers foibles and sins.  For Rach and I, it was a beautiful portrayal of what local congregations should look like, but often are not.  Sadly, throughout the film, the story lucidly reveals the Church to actually be the stumbling block to such a life -- again, not without warrant and certainly true enough much of the time -- and not in any way the means to it.  Hence, the film shows a community disconnected from Christ's Church here on Earth, but as they imagine it to be in Heaven. 
     The film doesn't have a rating...thanks Sweden.  It did have a few "cuss" words ("What the cuss!") and there is a brief skinny-dipping scene, and a few "wife being abused scenes".  All in all, to play it safe, I'd probably give it a soft R rating.