Alcarràs

"A deeply intelligent, humane drama."

"A rare gem."

"A subtly heartsore portrait of shared crisis."

"Powerful..."

"Alcarràs (can feel) slight: Yet the film’s striking images... leave an indelible trail."

"Impressive..."

"Simón... guides a large multigenerational ensemble with a sure hand..."

"As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, its effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch."

"The film’s immersive, lived-in nature has a transfixing grip."

"It’s a buzzing and vibrant ensemble drama whose unruly cast pulls our focus in a dozen different directions at once..."

"The film balances a bristling political conscience against its tenderly observed domestic drama."

"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."

"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."