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Alcarrs (film)
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Wikipedia article
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'Alcarrs' is a 2022 Spanish-Italian drama film directed by Carla Simn. It is set and shot in Alcarrs, a village nearby Lleida, at the border between Catalonia and Aragon in Spain, in the Western dialect of Catalan language, featuring a non-professional cast of actors. The plot concerns a family drama about the disappearance of traditional peach-harvesting activities. It won the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale, becoming the first Catalan-language film to do so. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Plot
Set in Alcarrs, in the area of Lleida in Catalonia, Spain, the plot consists of a family rural drama concerning the disappearance of agricultural activities, revolving around the intention to install solar panels in an agricultural plot hitherto occupied by a peach orchard, bringing the members of the Sol family to a stand off.
Cast
Production
The screenplay was penned by the director Carla Simn alongside Arnau Vilar. The film was produced by Avalon PC, Elastica Films and Vilat Films alongside Kino Produzioni and TV3, with the participation of TVE and Movistar+ and the support of ICAA, , Creative Europe's MEDIA, Eurimages, MIBACT and . Shooting began on 1 June 2021 in the area of Alcarrs, province of Lleida, with the shooting window constrained to Summer due to the seasonal nature of the film's setting pertaining peach harvest cycles. The cast is formed by non-professional actors from the province of Lleida. Shot in Catalan, the entire cast used the local Western dialect (Lleidat) of the Catalan language pertaining to the area. Filming wrapped after 8 weeks of shooting. Mara Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera and Sergi Moreno were credited as producers.
Release
The film screened in the official competition of the 72nd Berlinale on 15 February 2022. The film also screened at the 25th Mlaga Festival in March 2022. Initially announced to run as part of the competitive list of the festival's official selection, the festival and the film producers agreed to screen the film out of competition instead. It was thus screened in Mlaga on 19 March 2022.
Co-distributed by Avalon DA and Elastica Films in Spain, the film was theatrically released on 29 April 2022. Starting with a distribution limited to 169 theatres, the film was the most watched debut film in its opening weekend, and second film overall (first in Catalonia) after 'The Northman'. Distributed by Wonder Pictures, it opened in Italian theatres on 26 May 2022. The film was selected within the 60th New York Film Festival's main slate. By the time 'Alcarrs' was announced within the short-list of three films pre-selected by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain for their submission to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film on 25 August 2022, the film had grossed around 2.2 million at the Spanish box-office. On 13 September 2022, the film was disclosed as the final selection out of the shortlist.
Reception
Critical reception
statuette.According to the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 'Alcarrs' has a 88% approval rating based on 16 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 7.9/10. On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film holds a score of 87 out of 100 based on 7 reviews indicating universal acclaim.
Reviewing for 'The Telegraph', Tim Robey rated the film with 5 out of 5 stars, considering that the film "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". Fionnuala Halligan of 'ScreenDaily' wrote that 'Alcarrs' constitutes a "profoundly authentic and moving contemplation of the fragility of family, and, again, childhood" considering the film to have "all the hallmarks of a very specific film with emotionally wide appeal, a thoughtful essay which can also rattle and hum".
Guy Lodge of 'Variety' considered that 'Alcarrs' confirmed "the strength and consistency of Simn's directorial voice" after 'Summer 1993', also writing that it "balances a bristling political conscience against its tenderly observed domestic drama". Writing for 'Little White Lies', Caitlin Quinlan considered that the film "strikes a deft balance between idyllic reminiscence and melancholy for a cherished place", while also "delivering a poignant tale about the impact of industrial development on agriculture". Sergi Snchez of 'Fotogramas' considered that Simn gets to "translate into images what many neorealist filmmakers pursued unceasingly": "Truth, this time of a changing space and time, which appeals to the collective without losing the thread of the individual".
Accolades
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2022
References
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