HARVEST

 Set in an indeterminate period in the past and presumably in Scotland judging by the accents "Harvest" could best be described as folk-horror but not as we might know it. This may be a difficult film to pin down but it's utterly absorbing. Director Athina Rachel Tsangari seems to have found a way to transport us back to the Middle Ages while keeping a very 21st century eye on things.

It hasn't much of a plot as such, just a community so close to nature that it dictates their every waking moment but it's a nature which, together with the outside world, seems intent on destroying the community with every day that passes. It's also stunningly photographed by the great Sean Price Williams while heading an extraordinary cast of actors and musicians are Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling. They are the faces we recognize in what is essentially an ensemble piece, (Neil Leiper, Rosy McEwen, Arinze Kene and Frank Dillane are all excellent).

Of course, it won't appeal to everyone, most particularly to horror fans. This is an art movie almost experimental in its execution but if you give yourself over to it then there are treasures to be found in almost every frame.