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‘Harvest’ Review: Caleb Landry Jones Plunges Headfirst Into Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Challenging Scotland-Set Period Piece – Venice Film Festival

'Harvest' review: Caleb Landry Jones plunges headfirst into Athina Rachel Tsangari's challenging Scotland-set period piece – Venice Film Festival

Then he bites off a piece of mossy wood, chews experimentally and spits it out; we have just shifted sideways from Malick’s lyricism into the unpredictably strange, unforgiving world of Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari. When the Jordan posse arrives — led by Kent’s effete cousin, backed by a bunch of enforcers who rough up the men and manhandle the women — it is clear that the lives they have always known are over. Without making a history lesson out of it, she conveys how hard it is to work this land; there are glancing references to the hungry, cold times of year and panoramic shots of their mean huts, set around a mire where pigs snuggle for scraps.

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