Nos soleils

A very personal european family drama that unleashed inside of me an incredibly heart-warming feeling of nostalgia that draw a smile on my face ear to ear for multiple times during the movie.

It's a very quiet movie, you can almost feel every sound of nature during the lines of dialogue, and when no-one is speaking you hear the birds chirping, the peaches falling from the trees and the children laughing and running around the house.

More than a movie experience this feels like you're put inside their family situations and there's some little cute moments where you can't do nothing but feel joy when you know you've already been in the exact same spot - right there picking up figs from the tree with your grandfather.

Its simplistic hangout movie format truly does a lot in favor of the almost documentarian final result and the sincere, raw and honest performances are the cherry on top of this very fluffy peach cake that Alcarràs is. A giant heads up for the child actors. I didn't believe for a single second that they were acting, it really felt like they were just living their lives and having fun.

Besides that Carla Simón's latest project also serves as a subtle critique to the current state of the agricultural industry in spain and the underpayment of the house-farm workers due to the big companies that monopolize the market.

I really appreciated Alcarràs for staying truthful to what it proposed to be - a beautiful and somewhat tragic story of a family that managed to hang toghether through their roughest times.

This film, though a tad overlong, stayed with me for a long time afterwards.and left me feeling very sad.

A family have a Gentleman's Agreement broken when the Landowner's Son inherits and wants to turn the use of the land from from Peach Trees to Solar Panels.

Fantastic detail on the farming and family set-ups and also showing the effect on the extended family as the threat grows...

Very much a film for our times, t is still unclear where our food comes from when the land is covered in Solar Panels and Wind Farms.

Surely It can only mean higher prices or more food imports that only the Rich Countries will be able to afford.

"Alcarràs" is a poignant, slice-of-life drama about a family of peach farmers in a small town facing the challenges of modernity and capitalism. The film's story centers around the patriarch, Quimet, and his elderly father, Rogelio, as they struggle to keep their land and way of life when wealthy landowners threaten to take it away and install solar panels. The film is directed by Carla Simón and features a cast of first-time actors who deliver naturalistic performances. While some sequences in the second half of the film drag, overall "Alcarràs" is a heartwarming tale of family, community, and the importance of passing down legacies.

What a beautiful film! The choice to use non-actors was brilliant, as this film feels entirely real and true. I was absolutely engrossed by this simple story filled with immense complexity, dealing with family politics, gender, the working class, tradition, the encroachment of the new, among many others. Beautifully shot as well, the film had many frames that looked like paintings. Beautiful and quietly devastating, yet hopeful. 9/10.

Alcarràs. I can say it in two ways: very good film and I really liked it.

It's a sad but especially tender movie.

For me, as I am from Barcelona, this movie is clearly a western in which the family, the land and work are the same thing. And fruit, and love.

And It is also a beautiful movie, natty, warm and pleasant which portrays in a soft manner the strength that rural life requires.

Its language is fresh, direct and very honest.

Full of things simply explained without becoming sentimental, it speaks of something that is lost, that has been snapped up.

I like the children's role in it. It doesn't become burdensome, as is usually the case with children's performances, it is nice and funny but without going overboard.

A balsamic drama very sweet in form but bitter in content.

It is frankly fair the existance of such a good fictional film set in that rural reality.