Review by EdgarST

«Alcarràs» is a beautiful and intense drama about land tenure, about the dispossession of a natural inheritance by laws invented by men, and about the right to those lands of a Catalan family dedicated to agriculture, full of a force as strong as the love for agriculture and the life they experience living in contact with nature. If you liked Alice Rohrwacher's «Le meraviglie» you will certainly enjoy this movie too.

It is the story of the last harvest of the members of an extended family that must evict the lands of the heir of a land-owning family because they do not have any property title. During the Spanish civil war the landless family hid the landowners. In gratitude, they have been allowed to work the land as their own since the 1940s. Now, the heir wants them out.

There is no judge today like the Israelite king of almost mythical wisdom Solomon who would rule, "the land belongs to the family that worked it." No, now there are more rogue lawyers than Solomonic ones. Populated by a group of beautiful and well-constructed characters (grandparents, parents, children, uncles and aunts, cousins, grandchildren), played by an admirable cast of natural actors, they are the ones who take us through almost two hours through this passionate story, winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin film festival, 2022. Highly recommended.