My top film of 2023 (the year it released here in Australia; I was lucky to catch it at the Spanish Film Festival). I've seen this kind of rural drama played out many times before, including another Catalan film from the same year ("Suro", almost as excellent as this) but there's something especially absorbing about this one, with a scattershot three-generation family living on a Peach farm that they're on the verge of losing due to a legal issue. Director Simón has a real gift for drawing believable performances out of amateur actors, and the film's digressions into moments in the daily lives of the family make the film feel lived-in in a way that is incredibly rare.
Plus, those final shots of the film. Oof, my heart.
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My top film of 2023 (the year it released here in Australia; I was lucky to catch it at the Spanish Film Festival). I've seen this kind of rural drama played out many times before, including another Catalan film from the same year ("Suro", almost as excellent as this) but there's something especially absorbing about this one, with a scattershot three-generation family living on a Peach farm that they're on the verge of losing due to a legal issue. Director Simón has a real gift for drawing believable performances out of amateur actors, and the film's digressions into moments in the daily lives of the family make the film feel lived-in in a way that is incredibly rare.
Plus, those final shots of the film. Oof, my heart.