‘Harvest’ Review: Caleb Landry Jones Plunges Headfirst Into Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Challenging Scotland-Set Period Piece – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comThere is a sense-memory of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven when Harvest begins; we are in the midst of a wheatfield, the ripe ears above us, the blue sky glimpsed between the stalks.
Caleb Landry Jones appears, caressing a butterfly. Then he bites off a piece of mossy wood, chews experimentally and spits it out; we have just shifted sideways from Malick’s lyricism into the unpredictably strange, unforgiving world of Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Harvest is set in what is probably a Scottish village sometime in the 18th century, when much of the country was being convulsed by an agricultural revolution.
During the Clearances, thousands of peasant farmers were evicted to make way for industrial-scale sheep farming, their fields grassed and woods razed for pasture.
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