‘The Rye Horn’ Review: Womanhood is a Trial in an Earthy, Elemental, San Sebastian-Winning Drama

‘The Rye Horn’ Review: Womanhood is a Trial in an Earthy, Elemental, San Sebastian-Winning Drama

Rather than horns, they look like tiny black catkins clinging to the grains on swaying stalks of rye. These little clusters — actually a fungus known as ergot — are a disease that affects the ovaries of their host plants, but can be made into an infusion that induces abortion in women. That kind of resonance, between the natural world and the female human experience, is very much at the heart of Jaione Camborda’s second film, “The Rye Horn,” whi…