The splending layer of animated oil painting gives luster to this soap opera-esque animated feature film. The Peasants resembles a big turbo-slavic cinematic marshmallow that could turn up the nose of Reymont specialists and ethnographers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2025

A strange and compelling dance across countries and centuries.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

In conclusion, once again the filmmakers offer a work where form and content correspond and are enhanced through a beautiful aesthetic work that offers great visual delight and a complex and ruthless story that functions as a portrait of an era.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 22, 2024

Unpleasant... It’s great to see ambitious animation style—a live-action shoot converted through rotoscoping-like technique—applied to adult subject matter, but I could hardly make it through the swishing, swirling look.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 4, 2024

... Dazzling. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

... A film that's as original in its form as it is trite and solemn in its development. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Besides the alternately realistic and surreal animation, The Peas­ants rivals any feature this year in its cinematography, editing and score.

| Apr 26, 2024

Lovely to look at, The Peasants provides a window revealing beautiful scenes that soften a harsh and sadly believable world.

| Apr 5, 2024

‘The Peasants’ doesn’t brim with riches, but it works as an eccentric curiosity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2024

One could teach a master class on this film, it is that rich. For anyone who loves art, literature, and film, "The Peasants" is a must-see.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 20, 2024

The beauty of the animation style seems to work against the film in terms of creating a connection between the audience and the characters.

| Mar 17, 2024

The acting is wonderful, bringing to life the gamut of emotions and personal dramas that translate through the screen, and the themes of examining extreme patriarchy along with growing independence are just as relevant today as in the past.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2024

Most of the film is, frankly, two people talking in a room. How much does animation really enhance that?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2024

Shot as live action and then transferred to oil paint, the visuals don’t always feel essential to the narrative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2024

Style triumphs over substance...visually eye-catching but dramatically uncompelling.

| Original Score: C | Mar 5, 2024

But perhaps unpleasantness is the point, as the filmmakers push the boundaries of animation, filling their film with fighting, death, betrayal, poverty, starvation and rape. ... It’s unspeakable ugliness portrayed in the most beautiful way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2024

This Polish drama from the makers of "Loving Vincent" uses painted animation to startling effect in an engrossing tale of agrarian lust, greed and betrayal.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 1, 2024

The Peasants, if you can move past the beautiful yet distracting visual style, is a powerful and depressing story that hints at the dangers of beauty, the power of public opinion, and our own fear of female freedom and sexuality.

| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2024

It has moments where it showcases the potential, turning grounded and pure moments into moving portraits. But the limitations of scope and subject matter keep it from escaping the dry dramatic period genre it's naturally locked into.

| Feb 16, 2024

The Welchmans’ technique may simply be misapplied here, but after these plodding two hours, I’d be happy never to suffer it again.

| Feb 16, 2024