The Olive Tree

Original title: El olivo

2016
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

3.9K

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Comedy Drama

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 15 nominations

Trivia
Paul Laverty got the idea for the movie after reading a newspaper article about the selling of Spanish ancient trees to Europe or Asia for decorative reasons. He mulled over it for a decade before actually writing it.

Goofs
At minute 62, when the lorry is driving in continental Europe (and about to enter Germany), footage of a motorway is briefly shown, with traffic driving on the left hand side.

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Featured review

9/10

Great Spanish-German dramatic comedy road movie

What a beautiful film. Moving but also funny, with a nice cinematography, well developped and interesting characters, it explores love, roots, family relations, health in a broad sense, capitalism as opposed to life (the olive trees, chickens and granpa's mind are fragrant exemples), social media and the press. It is a road movie which also addresses in an interesting way cultural differences besides the two production contries, Spain and Germany.