When a group of mysterious strangers arrive in a medieval village, a time of jubilation soon turns to violence and suspicion. Spellbinding and hallucinogenic folk cinema.
"★★★★ – glimmeringly surreal Scottish folk Western" – Telegraph
Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s (Chevalier) latest is a visually striking folk-psychodrama, based on the 2013 book by Jim Crace. In a rural village, in an undefined time and place, farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity. When outsiders arrive, paranoia runs rife amongst the townsfolk, and over seven hallucinatory days, the village will disappear.