Harvest, the genre-bending tragicomedy from Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, gets a chaotic new trailer from MUBI today ahead of its summer release.
Starring Caleb Landry Jones (Antiviral, Get Out) and Harry Melling (Harry Potter franchise, The Pale Blue Eye), Harvest is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jim Crace, and was adapted for screen by Tsangari and Joslyn Barnes.
In Harvest:
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsmanturned-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.
Also starring are Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, and Frank Dillane.
Here's what Tsangari had to say in a director's statement:
“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—twentyfirst-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 map-maker, 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 offscreen, 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.”
Harvest was produced by Sixteen Films, Rebecca O'Brien, Joslyn Barnes for Louverture Films, Match Factory Productions (Viola Fügen, Michael Weber), Haos Film (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Elias Katsoufis), Why Not, Meraki Film (Marie-Elena Dyche).
MUBI will release Harvest in UK and Irish cinemas on July 18. No final US release date has been set, but keep an eye on MUBI for updates and check out the brand new trailer for Harvest below:
