The Olive Tree
Programme Notes
Cinema Handout (PDF 102KB)
Audience Reaction
Score: 85.83% Attendance: 154
Reviews
Links
Synopsis
As a small child, Anna watches in horror as her family sell her grandfather's favourite 1000-year-old olive tree to help pay for a tourist restaurant.
Wind forward a dozen years and her grandfather has fallen into depression and dementia; does he miss his tree?
Anna discovers the tree has been bought by a Dusseldorf energy company as a symbol of its green policies; can she get it back?
What follows is her crazy mission, with a couple of friends, to go to Dusseldorf to rescue the tree, involving big business and the German environmental movement along the way.
The film is directed by Icíar Bollaín (we had her 'Even the Rain' here in 2012 and 'Take My Eyes' at the 2005 Festival) and written by her partner, multi-award winning Paul Laverty, Ken Loach's collaborator ('I, Daniel Blake', 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'). Anna Castillo, who plays Anna, gets good reviews all round too, so this should be a treat for us all.
Critics
This is a small, soulful film that has two stars: the feisty Spanish actress Anna Castillo and a vast, gnarled, thousand-year old olive tree
Kate Muir, The Times
Find A Film
Search over 1375 films in the Keswick Film Club archive.
Film Festival
27 Feb - 1 Mar 2020
Friends
KFC is friends with Caldbeck Area Film Society and Brampton Film Club and members share benefits across all organisations
Awards
Keswick Film Club won the Best New Film Society at the British Federation Of Film Societies awards in 2000.
Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.
We have also received numerous Distinctions and Commendations in categories including marketing, programming and website.
Talking Pictures
The KFC Newsletter
Links Explore the internet with Keswick Film Club
