| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
A fascinating look at the extreme loneliness and bitterness lurking behind the practice of xenophobia. Along with the resultant unhappiness that wishes to metastasise itself in order to stamp out its obverse - in vengeful resentment.
A remote farm is bought by a city type who wants to get back to nature, only to find some of the locals trying to thwart his plans and buy his land cheaply for themselves; all the while concealing the location of an all-important water source.
A numinous film whose weather obsession speaks of the Machiavellian plans of Man being as nothing when compared to God’s designs. No farmer can outwit the climate and the inexorable and attendant forces of Nature - he can only harness its power by obeying it.
Yves MONTAND is brilliant as a man eaten up with never having married and having no kin as heir. His is the character that so well reflects the landscape and its climate: Tough and unyielding.
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