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  • 2019
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  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

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, ...

Directed By: Marine Francen

Written By: Violette Ailhaud, Jacqueline Surchat, Jacques Fieschi, Olivier Cena, Virginie Sauveur, Marine Francen

  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2019
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

The Sower

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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, ...

Directed By: Marine Francen

Written By: Violette Ailhaud, Jacqueline Surchat, Jacques Fieschi, Olivier Cena, Virginie Sauveur, Marine Francen

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80
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.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Kerry Lengel FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films du Worso, Canal+, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Indéfilms 5, Cinémage 11, Cinéventure 2, Versus Production, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Inver Invest
Release Date Mar 1, 2019
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Awards

Film by the Sea International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Nomination

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