EXCLUSIVE: Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari has lastly returned to function filmmaking with Harvest, for which we are able to share a first-look clip above.
Harvest stars an fascinating ensemble led by Caleb Landry Jones. Tsangari accomplished the function in northern Scotland earlier this yr with out a lot publicity. The pic is a free adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel of the identical identify. The movie’s synopsis reads: Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no identify, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic tackle a Western, townsman turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood buddies about to face an invasion from the surface world: the trauma of modernity.
Tsangari wrote the screenplay alongside Joslyn Barnes. The movie was produced by Rebecca O’Brien (Sixteen Movies), and Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Movies) alongside Match Manufacturing unit Productions, Tsangari’s Haos Movie, and Meraki Movie.
Alongside Jones, the movie stars Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, and Frank Dillane. Sean Worth Williams was the DoP and the movie was edited by Matt Johnson and Nico Leunen.
Tsangari has described Harvest as a movie about “reckoning.”
“What have we executed? The place can we go from right here? How can we salvage our soil, the self throughout the commons? Harvest takes place in a threshold realm, tracing the primary ruptures of the economic “revolution”. And revolution it hasn’t been,” she mentioned in her inventive assertion.
“An agrarian group is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the map-maker, the individuals on the transfer, and the corporate man—all archetypes of shattering change. The longer term isn’t a part of the story—it’ll occur offscreen, in a world we aren’t meant to see. There aren’t any heroes. Solely imperfect, extraordinary people. I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its trendy equal, a Polaroid being slowly uncovered to twilight.”
Try the teaser clip above.