Alcarràs

Movie

2022

1h 55m

Catalan

Drama

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In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss ...

Alcarràs

Movie

2022

1h 55m

Catalan

Drama

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Cast

Rogelio

Qumet

Dolors

Roger

Mariona

Iris

Nati

Cisco

Glòria

Teia

Directed By: Carla Simón

Written By: Carla Simón, Arnau Vilaró

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dejushin says...

2 years ago

A bit depressing, made me feel homesick. It bothers me that other than the rich destroy the small farmer, it doesn't offer any optimistic message or solution. It just says what we already know.

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seeyoshirun says...

3 months ago

My top film of 2023 (the year it released here in Australia; I was lucky to catch it at the Spanish Film Festival). I've seen this kind of rural drama played out many times before, including another Catalan film from the same year ("Suro", almost as excellent as this) but there's something especially absorbing about this one, with a scattershot three-generation family living on a Peach farm that they're on the verge of losing due to a legal issue. Director Simón has a real gift for drawing believable performances out of amateur actors, and the film's digressions into moments in the daily lives of the family make the film feel lived-in in a way that is incredibly rare. Plus, those final shots of the film. Oof, my heart.

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miguelreina says...

2 years ago

Rural Spanish neorealism that addresses the crisis of traditional agriculture (while surreptitiously avoiding labor exploitation) to portray a family facing the extinction of their way of life. It does not have the thematic richness of "Utama" (2022), with which it shares some reflections and the use of non-professional actors, and unnecessarily lengthens in the childish gaze, which does not suffer from the present but faces an uncertain future. But this film, which has beautiful cinematography but a superfluous narrative, doesn't provide the emotion it needs because it doesn't know how to build characters that, beyond the amateurism of the actors, feel authentic.

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Ferval73 says...

2 years ago

I don't understand how this film has won the golden bear. And much less how it's nominated for best film at the Goya. I finished watching it because I don't like to leave movies half done.

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badelf

2 years ago

As we urbanize, we distance ourselves further and further from the small farm. Putting all those middlemen and greedy corporations between us and the farmer, causes us to pay outrageous prices for fresh food and the small farmers to become broke. As an urban dweller, we have no personal knowledge of More

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

A family of long established and hard working peach farmers find their lives turned upside down when the owner of their land dies. It seems that there was a gentleman's agreement for this arrangement to continue down the generations, but when the wealthy son decides to sell the land to developers, t More

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