Beneath the Harvest sky

'Beneath the Harvest sky'-2013

Previously titled 'Blue Potato' an independent film directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly.  The film is a story about two boys friendship,  and their own American dream ideal of escaping their town. The two boys played by Emory Cohen ('Place Beyond the Pines', soon to be in 'Brooklyn') and Callan McAuliffe (who I first saw in 'Flipped'). They both gave gripping raw performances with such passion when when I watch both of these actors perform they don't seem like they are performing they are living the scenes and their interactions with one an other you would think they were childhood best friends. 

The seventeen year old teens go to college and work really hard on in their local potato harvest farm where they earn money to leave their town and travel to Boston. There dream is to go there and watch  their favourite team the Red Sox and live there with their new car they will buy.  The two  both earn money in different ways the majority of the time McAuliffe's character Dominic saves at the farm all summer and Cohen's character Casper works with his father played by the extremely loved Aiden Gillen doing petty drug theft and smuggling drugs across the border of Canada.

The film shows both of the boys love interests and struggles at home and how they both cope in different ways. Throughout the film the boys solitary and together have their own fun and peaceful time in a  derelict house in the woods of Maine and hide there savings under a floor board of the house in a big black bag. In amongst the unravelling events of the drug crime and the eager feeling they both feel to escape Maine, rouble follows and the derelict house is about to fall down in a storm. Both boys rush to get the money Dominic running in first and Casper a little behind, Casper screams Dominic's name many times and retreats from the house anxiously awaiting for Dominic to follow but the house comes tumbling down. Dominic's body is removed from the wreckage the next day and Casper and his dog escape the town in the car they saved up for.

When I first watched this film I watched it two days in a row and recently watched it again and fell back in love with it highly recommend this film 9/9