The Sower

Name: The Sower
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: March 1, 2019
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Alban Lenoir, Anamaria Vartolomei, Barbara Probst, Françoise Lebrun, Géraldine Pailhas

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Film Movement | Release Date: March 1, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Alban Lenoir, Anamaria Vartolomei, Barbara Probst, Françoise Lebrun, Géraldine Pailhas, Iliana Zabeth, Mama Prassinos, Margot Abascal, Pauline Burlet, Raphaëlle Agogué

Summary: In 1851, France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like the shy but inwardly strong Violette,In 1851, France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like the shy but inwardly strong Violette, suddenly have no chance of experiencing physical love or motherhood. The women take an oath: if a man comes, they will share him as a lover. When a mysterious and handsome stranger arrives, he ignites passions and jealousies that threaten to destroy the tight-knit community. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Marine Francen

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Neil Young

Feb 28, 2019

A fundamentally serious film leavened by a streak of deadpan, droll humor, its quality will ensure even greater interest in Ailhaud's memoir in the run-up to its impending centenary. Read full review

Kerry Lengel

Feb 28, 2019

The great strength of The Sower is that it doesn’t try to do too much. It zooms in on its microcosm with a tender urgency that offers a glimpse of complex humanity without reducing the story to some sort of pithy takeaway. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Feb 28, 2019

If the village’s utter isolation feels unlikely, that’s because The Sower is in one sense a dream, the enactment of a myth that goes back to Ancient Greece and beyond. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 8, 2019

The resulting film is so delicately wrought and exquisitely visualized that the harsher, eerier details of Ailhaud’s account stand out all the more strikingly, like a shot of vinegar in a pristine crème caramel. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 24, 2020

A diverting and picturesque romance that will have you dreaming of a French vacation and the lovely sights — human and otherwise — to be seen there. Read full review

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