Alcarras

AroView: A tenderly observed Spanish drama about a peach-harvesting family about to lose their generational home and livelihoods in Alcarràs, Catalonia due to a historical handshake deal not worth a pip.

Director Carla Simón’s naturalistic approach gives the actors freedom to fully inhabit their roles in a drama less focused on the big crisis than the little heartbreaks of an unjust world felt by individuals at the mercy of disruption and inequality.

“It manages a light, improvisatory mastery, an immaculate hold on tone, and a grave yet sunlit tableau of an ending, with each one of these faces turned in collective mourning, that I’ll never forget.” ~Tim Robey, The Telegraph

“The film balances a bristling political conscience against its tenderly observed domestic drama.” ~Guy Lodge, Variety