“There’s a wildness and a pagan spirit to the film’s energy. At times, it feels like a painting of a peasant bacchanale in all its grubby, profane glory. It’s a film about the unravelling of a way of life; as such, it can feel that some of the power dissipates as this small community disintegrates. Even so, this is pungent filmmaking which creates a world steeped in superstition, ritual, and folk-magic.”
—Wendy Ide, Screen Daily.
“Between its teeming ensemble cast and impressively fetid period texture, HARVEST represents a distinct leveling up of scope and scale for its creator; while thematically of a piece with its predecessors, it’s more classical in its structure and also more explicitly left-correct as a critique … Tsangari balances her responsibilities as a sociological cartographer against the inherently playful sensibility that defines her practice, always for the better.”
—Adam Nayman, Film Comment
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (ATTENBERG and CHEVALIER) comes a biting allegory of capitalism.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name in an undefined time and place disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity and the market
