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Spain, Italy · 2022
2h 0m
Director Carla Simón
Starring Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch
Genre Drama, Romance
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The Solé family have lived in the small Spanish village of Alcarràs for generations, making their living from farming peaches farming. But with the owner of the farm threatening to evict them, this summer's harvest might be their last. A rift forms in the tight-knit family as they fight to stay afloat.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
Lovely, unforced Chekhovian notes grace the gently observed snapshot of a summer of unstoppable change and momentous upheaval. Even if there are moments of frustration in which Simón and co-writer Arnau Vilaró pull away just as conflicts are heating up, the film’s immersive, lived-in nature has a transfixing grip.
Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
This Spanish Garden of Eden hits some perhaps expectedly alluring notes - the ripeness, the colour, the endless days of summer - yet is also a profoundly authentic and moving contemplation of the fragility of family, and, again, childhood.
The film balances a bristling political conscience against its tenderly observed domestic drama.
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.
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