The Olive Tree
The movie follows a girl, her uncle and a friend as they start an emotional travel to recover a gnarled, thousand-year-old olive tree that is precious to her ailing grandfather.
17 January 1971, Luanco, Asturias, Spain
6 August 1963, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
20 July 1968
1980
9 October 1993, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1987, Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
March 16, 2017
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.
February 27, 2017
A deceptively simple drama about a family and its thousand-year-old olive tree that is rooted in the best cinematic soil there is -- emotional truth -- The Olive Tree gets its hooks in early on, and then never lets up.
March 19, 2017
Painfully well meaning at times, this road movie would work better if some of the worthiness was pruned and if the tree-thieving was not quite so patently ludicrous.
March 16, 2017
The film has gentleness and charm.
March 17, 2017
The film has such charm and promotes such good... The phrase is "heartwarming" I believe.
March 13, 2017
Commentary on a changing Europe underpins 'The Olive Tree', but the human relationships are most poignant here.
February 27, 2017
An earthy, quietly stirring Spanish fable that finds familial, regional and environmental grievances inseparably tangled in its branches.
March 17, 2017
While this heartfelt dramedy is never less than engaging, Bollain and Laverty's conviction that idealistic youth can haul society back from the abyss sadly feels a touch naive.
March 20, 2017
[A] charming but purposeful community drama that wears its heart on its sleeve while discussing broader themes.
March 28, 2017
A family and intimate drama with dyes of ecological fable that serves as a metaphor for the economic dynamics in the European Union and its impact on the citizens. [Full review in Spanish]
