Film review: Alcarràs is at its best when it explores the human cost of capitalism

Written by Arnau Vilaró and Carla Simón, with Simón directing, Alcarràs is a universal tale — there are elements here of Ireland’s The Field, for example, or France’s Jean de Florette, in its elegy for the traditional devotion to the ‘solid ground, beloved land’

The family’s personal stories are set against a backdrop of familiar scenes of protests by angry farmers

★★★★☆