Caleb Landry Jones Long Ago in Scotland in ‘Harvest’ Thriller Trailer
by Alex Billington
April 16, 2025
Source: YouTube
“We have become link animals. Goat drunk and lecherous.” Mubi has debuted an official trailer for the film titled Harvest, made by the Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari. This premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival last fall (view the teaser) in the Main Competition to mixed reviews. Harvest takes place in a remote village in medieval Scotland many years ago. Adapted from the novel by British writer Jim Crace, this stars Caleb Landry Jones as Walter Thirsk, the former childhood friend / manservant of the village’s weak-willed landowner, Master Kent. Marked by superstition and scapegoating of outsiders, the town falls under new threat after Kent’s iron-fisted city cousin comes into possession of the land, with new plans for agricultural profit. More from NYFF: “Shot in the sun-dappled Scottish countryside with natural light by cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Tsangari’s most ambitious work to date is both carnal & cerebral… [A] reflection on man’s relationship to the land, rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance.” It also stars Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, & Frank Dillane. This an alluring, mesmerizing shot-on-film project but it gets so brutal and dark and tragic, and it’s hard to watch the second half when everything falls apart. Though if this trailer intrigues you, definitely catch this on the big screen.
Here’s the full official trailer (+ poster) for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film Harvest, from Mubi’s YouTube:
“With this film, an adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest, we had the chance to examine the moment when it all began for us—twentyfirst-century heirs to a universal story of land loss. To me, Harvest is a film about reckoning. What have we done? Where do we go from here? How can we salvage our soil, the self within the commons? 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. The future is not part of the story—it will happen offscreen, in a world we are not meant to see. There are no heroes. Only imperfect, ordinary folks. I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its modern equivalent, a Polaroid being slowly exposed to twilight.” –Director Athina Rachel Tsangari
You can rewatch the festival trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest film right here for the first look.
Intro from Venice: “Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsmanturned-farmer Walter Thirsk & befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.” Harvest is directed by acclaimed Greek indie filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, director of the films Attenberg and Chevalier previously, and a producer on many others. The screenplay is written by Joslyn Barnes and Athina Rachel Tsangari, adapted from the novel of the same name written by Jim Crace. Produced by Sixteen Films, Rebecca O’Brien, Louverture Films (Joslyn Barnes), Match Factory Productions (Viola Fügen, Michael Weber), Haos Film (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Elias Katsoufis), Why Not, Meraki Film (Marie-Elena Dyche). This first premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival last year playing in the Main Competition. Mubi will release Tsangari’s Harvest in UK & Ireland cinemas starting July 18th, 2025 this summer. No final US release date has been set – stay tuned for updates. Who’s interested in this?