DN first had the pleasure of speaking to filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari back in 2011, following the SXSW screening of Attenberg, a film which cemented her position as a linchpin of the Greek New Wave. A couple weeks ago, ahead of its UK cinema release, we sat down together once again to discuss her latest feature Harvest, an adaptation of Jim Crace’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, which stars actor Caleb Landry Jones, was shot on 16mm by cinematographer (and director in his own right) Sean Price Williams and is a film about an idyllic community torn apart over seven hallucinatory days by the relentless economic forces of capitalism.
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