Synopsis
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.
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Cast
- Pauline BurletViolette
- Géraldine PailhasMarianne
- Alban LenoirJean
- Iliana ZabethRose
- Françoise LebrunBlanche
- Raphaëlle AgoguéLouise
- Barbara ProbstJeanne
- Anamaria VartolomeiJoséphine
- Margot AbascalPhilomène
- Mama PrassinosElisabeth
Recommendations
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Arizona Republic
The great strength of The Sower is that it doesn’t try to do too much. It zooms in on its microcosm with a tender urgency that offers a glimpse of complex humanity without reducing the story to some sort of pithy takeaway. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
A fundamentally serious film leavened by a streak of deadpan, droll humor, its quality will ensure even greater interest in Ailhaud's memoir in the run-up to its impending centenary. - 80
Screen Daily
If the village’s utter isolation feels unlikely, that’s because The Sower is in one sense a dream, the enactment of a myth that goes back to Ancient Greece and beyond. - 70
Variety
The resulting film is so delicately wrought and exquisitely visualized that the harsher, eerier details of Ailhaud’s account stand out all the more strikingly, like a shot of vinegar in a pristine crème caramel. - 63
Movie Nation
A diverting and picturesque romance that will have you dreaming of a French vacation and the lovely sights — human and otherwise — to be seen there.
