Digital & DVD Release Date: June 11, 2019
Price: DVD $16.59
Studio: Film Movement
Marine Francen’s 2017 debut feature, which won the filmmaker top honors in the New Director Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, The Sower is a visually striking romance/ historical drama set in the 19th century French countryside, part of a new wave of female-focused historical drama.
The year is 1851, and France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered
the arrest of all
the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising.
The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend
the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like
the shy but inwardly strong Violette (Pauline Burlet), suddenly have no chance of experiencing physical love or motherhood.
The women take an oath: if a man comes, they will share him as a lover. When a mysterious and handsome stranger arrives, he ignites passions and jealousies that threaten to destroy
the tight-knit community.
Included as a bonus feature is Marine Francen’s 2010 short film Les Voisins.
About Laurence
Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.
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