Alcarras (2023)
80%RT Audience Score: 69%
Awards & Nominations: NA
While it may lack a narrative punch, Alcarràs captures this rural world and its heritage with a gripping sense of nostalgia for things forever gone.
“Alcarràs” is a movie that takes a nostalgic look at the rural world and its heritage. Although it may not have a strong narrative, it captures this world in a poignant and nostalgic way.
Production Company(ies)
Foreign Language
Distributor
MUBI
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
Cataluña, Spain; Aragón, Spain
MPAA / Certificate
NR
Year of Release
2022
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.66 : 1
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Runtime:2h 0m
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Language(s):English, Catalan, Spanish
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Country of origin:Italy, Spain
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jan 6, 2023 Limited
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Alcarràs, drama, Catalan, Carla Simón, María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Arnau Vilaró, Berta Pipó, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou, peach farmers, solar panels, eviction, MUBI, box office, critic reviews, K Austin Collins, Wendy Ide, Raphael Abraham, Carlos Aguilar, Robert Abele, Devika Girish, Paula Vázquez Prieto, Pablo O Scholz, Victor Esquirol, Filipe Freitas, Wade Major, Derek Smith, MPAA rating, rural world, heritage, nostalgia, family, labor, survival, agriculture, industry, Iberian cinema, poetic pulse, humanist energy, traditional way of life, modernity, demands, slice-of-life portrait, gripping sense of nostalgia
Worldwide gross: NA
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): NA
US/Canada gross: NA
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US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend: $11,210
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $12,002
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,672
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
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Jordi Pujol Dolcet – self
Anna Otin – self
Xènia Roset – self
Albert Bosch – self
Ainet Jounou – self
Director – Carla Simón
Producers – María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
Writers – Arnau Vilaró, Carla Simón
Director(s)
Carla Simón
Writer(s)
Arnau Vilaró, Carla Simón
Producer(s)
María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
Film Festivals
Berlin
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (4)
Simón is attentive to the family as a complex unit, depicting it as a thriving mesh of personalities that do not all agree, but which are all bent toward the common ends of labor and survival, like the fibers comprising a muscle.
January 9, 2023
K. Austin Collins
Rolling Stone
TOP CRITIC
Persuasively lived-in performances… give the Catalan-language picture both its urgent naturalism and its potent sense of anger and injustice.
January 8, 2023 | Rating: 4/5
Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Achieves a satisfying sweetness without sugar-coating, finding notes of bitterness in inner family tensions and dealings with a not always co-operative agricultural co-operative.
January 6, 2023 | Rating: 4/5
Raphael Abraham
Financial Times
TOP CRITIC
A subtly heartsore portrait of shared crisis.
January 6, 2023 | Rating: 3.5/4
Carlos Aguilar
RogerEbert.com
TOP CRITIC
Movies about the people who grow our food, who struggle as honest land stewards in a time of heartless industry, are few and far between, making “Alcarràs” a rare gem.
January 5, 2023
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
The film is a flurry of chatter and labor — picking, digging, lifting, hunting — that drives home the centrality of the farm to the family’s sense of time and togetherness.
January 5, 2023
Devika Girish
New York Times
TOP CRITIC
… A film that expands the realist tradition of Iberian cinema with an original poetic pulse.
February 2, 2023 | Rating: 5/5
Paula Vázquez Prieto
La Nación (Argentina)
Modernity and tradition, solidarity and placidity amidst capitalism, Alcarràs is truly moving. [Full review in Spanish]
February 2, 2023 | Rating: 4/4
Pablo O. Scholz
Clarín
It isn’t naïf and certainly, not fatalistic either; its flowing humanist energy is comforting, the kind that can only be found in a loving family. This is paradise. [Full review in Spanish]
January 31, 2023 | Rating: 4.5/5
Victor Esquirol
Otroscines.com
The actors end up being the true catalyzers of the story.
January 21, 2023 | Rating: 3/5
Filipe Freitas
Always Good Movies
It is a very impressively made film, but it’s a little bit of a drudgery… [But] it’s a very fine film.
January 18, 2023
Wade Major
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
Free of didacticism and content to remain true to its slice-of-life portrait of a traditional way of life being confronted with the demands of modernity, this film presents an intriguing, if familiar, quandary in a compelling and unique manner.
January 11, 2023
Derek Smith
Spectrum Culture…
Plot
As far as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction. The new plans for the land include cutting down the peach trees and installing solar panels, which causes a rift within the large tight-knit family. For the first time, they face an uncertain future and risk losing more than their home.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of Alcarràs (2022) was made up of the inhabitants from the region, with the only professional cast member being the director’s sister who played the part of the sister from Barcelona.
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