Harvest review: Pastoral fear and loathing never fully catches fire in Middle Ages drama
Thirsk chaperones another outsider, a cartographer (Arinze Kene) who has been appointed to map the land by the local lord of the manor (Harry Melling). Along with sweeping changes in how aristocracy will soon farm the terrain, these foreign elements and the villagers' responses to them manifest as an existential threat to the peasant community.
Mud-splattered, bleary-eyed dread that never quite catches fire, Harvest is a heady brew but not an especially engaging one. This is not helped by Jones's mumbly, sedated screen demeanour and a knock-kneed, almost improvised gaucheness.
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