The Peasants is like high school: beautiful and unbearable... and very animated. The Peasants is an animated film set on the cusp of the 19th & 20th centuries in a small, rural Polish village. The story focuses on a person who had the double misfortune of being born a woman and, even worse, beautiful, proving that some things never change. The animation is next-level gorgeous. Helmed by husband and wife team DK and Hugh Welchman (who made my favorite animated film of all time: Loving Vincent), 100 artists produced oil paintings based on the original film shot with actors. These oil paintings became frames in the film, which were then supplemented by animators to make the action seamless. According to the movie's Wikipedia page, artists spent over 200,000 hours making the film, and you can believe me when I tell you every second of that is up on the screen in all its glory. Sadly, the script is less impressive. Personally, I didn't need to see another reminder that people are beasts and women are victims -- I see enough of that online. Also, from a writing standpoint, the lead character has no real motivation or arc, so the viewer is left to fill this vacuum with the assumption that the filmmakers simply want us to watch a woman suffer. Maybe the solution is to wait for this to stream and watch it with the sound off. 🔇

(72/2025) The film is obviously no surprise, because everyone who went to school had to read The Peasants, whether they wanted to or not. I didn't want to, because the book was a pain in the ass to read. At the time, I guess I wasn't mature enough to understand that it was a story about a typical Polish whore, Jagna, the cuckold Boryna, and Chad Antek. Let me just remind you that Reymont won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924 for this novel, and all because he was hit by a train and was so bored after the accident that he didn't know what to do for the next 8 years, so he wrote this novel. I wonder if back then, after he won the Nobel Prize, people rushed to buy his books or if they didn't give a fuck, just like I don't give a fuck today about the work of the latest Polish Nobel Prize winner in literature, Tokarczuk. You just have to take into account that back then there wasn't even television, so maybe people read those books out of boredom. As for the film itself, I'll give it a thumbs up for its graphic design and the style in which it was presented.

Extraordinary! Love the story and the visual it's so amazing. Masterpiece

The script was adapted from high-class literature, so the plot is OK, the execution in the style of painted animation is also original, but the music fits less, stylizing folk songs in the style of light disco.

As a kid we had to read the book at school (author-W.S.Reymont received a Noble Award for it). Never finished the book as it seems to be boring and no action. Now I really regret it and I think I will give it a go again :) great movie, amazing animation, superb music. Well done