HARVEST
HARVEST
HARVEST
United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United State
SYNOPSIS
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, 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.
CREDITS
Directed by: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Written by: Joslyn Barnes, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Produced by: Rebecca O’Brien, Joslyn Barnes, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche
Cinematography: Sean Price Williams
Editing: Matt Johnson
Production Design: Nathan Parker
Costume Design: Kirsty Halliday
Make-Up & Hair: Anita Brolly
Original Score: Nicolas Becker, Ian Hassett, Caleb Landry Jones, Lexx
Sound: Nicolas Becker
Visual Effects: Aspa Papageorgiou, Maria Vardaki, Lena Mitropoulou, Xenophon Philippousis, Kostas Tsakonas
Casting: Shaheen Baig
Cast: Caleb Landry Jones (Walter Thirsk), Harry Melling (Charles Kent), Rosy McEwen (Kitty Gosse), Arinzé Kene (Quill), Thalissa Teixeira (Mistress Beldam), Frank Dillane (Edmund Jordan
STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR
With this film, an adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel ‘Harvest’, we had the chance to examine the moment when it all began for us, 21st century heirs to a universal story of land loss. To me, HARVEST is a film about reckoning. What have we done? Where do we go from here? How can we salvage our soil, the self within the commons? HARVEST takes place in a threshold realm, tracing the first ruptures of the industrial “revolution”. And revolution it hasn’t been.
An agrarian community is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the mapmaker, the people on the move, and the company man – all archetypes of shattering change. The future is not part of the story – it will happen off screen, in a world we are not meant to see. There are no heroes. Only imperfect, ordinary folks. I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its modern equivalent, a polaroid being slowly exposed to twilight.
- Feature Film Selection 2024