Harvest
Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosy McEwen, Harry Melling
Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari hasn’t made a feature film in a decade: her last one, the excellent Chevalier, was a damning, dark comedy of toxic masculinity. That theme, seemingly destined never to be irrelevant, is maintained in her latest, though much else has changed. Tsangari’s first English-language work is set in a muddy, pitiless stretch of Northern countryside in an ambiguous, pre-industrial era where back-breaking manual labour, feudal serfdom and accusations of witchcraft are the order of the day. Brilliantly shot and designed, it’s a vivid immersion into a punishing past, based on Jim Crace’s Booker-shortlisted novel — but bringing a purely cinematic, silt-under-the-nails tactility to a tale of restless class friction that resonates across the centuries.
Caleb Landry…
