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Athina Rachel Sangari’s ‘Harvest’ Earns 7-Minute Ovation — Venice Film Festival
Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari marked her return to Venice this evening with the world premiere of competition title Harvest.
From left : Director of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, actress Rosy McEwen, actor Arinze Kene, actor Frank Dillane, producer Rebecca O'Brien, director Athina Rachel Tsangari, actress Thalissa Teixeira and actor Caleb Landry Jones attend the red carpet of the movie 'Harvest' presented in competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival Getty Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari marked her return to Venice this evening with the world premiere of competition title Harvest, which was unveiled to a 7-minute, 50-second ovation at the Sala Grande. In this tragicomic take on the Western, townsman turned-farmer Walter Thirsk (Jones) and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent (Melling) are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity. In her director’s statement Tsangari said, “ Harvest takes place in a threshold realm, tracing the first ruptures of the industrial ‘revolution.’ And revolution it hasn’t been… An agrarian community is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the map-maker, the people on the move, and the company man — all archetypes of shattering change.
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