‘I call it a nihilist western’: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her trippy folk horror Harvest

‘I call it a nihilist western’: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her trippy folk horror Harvest

The genre-hopping director’s new work is a haunting pastoral feature about the destruction of a village. She talks ‘traumatic’ reviews, the film’s spectacular Romanian rock-inspired soundscape, and the problem with Greek cinemaA hand emerges from sheaves of wheat waving in the wind. Then we see a face, trying to eat moss on a log, and a tongue searching for liquid in rocks. When Caleb Landry Jones (Dogman, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missou…