God's Own Country (2017)
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Francis Lee
Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
Johnny relieves the boredom of working for his sickening dad on their Pennine sheep farm through binge drinking and rough sex, until they employ a Romanian itinerant worker who awakens him to the joys of living with nature.
Review:
As with so many British first features, we have our nose rubbed in self-destructive behaviour and filth until the time when we are supposed to accept that our inchoate hero suddenly discovers that he is soft in the middle and really wants to change. Even so, he cannot control himself before one last hurrah, and goes crawling back unable even to say that he is sorry. Dialogue is understandably rudimentary, unintelligible and largely absent in favour of shots pregnant with meaning (flowers equal the blossoming of their relationship; a dead moth its debacle). Modishly slow, and without the discretion or resonance of Brokeback Mountain's outdoor exertions, this is unlikely to fill up many scorecards outside the Lesbian-Gay community.
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Francis Lee
Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
Johnny relieves the boredom of working for his sickening dad on their Pennine sheep farm through binge drinking and rough sex, until they employ a Romanian itinerant worker who awakens him to the joys of living with nature.
Review:
As with so many British first features, we have our nose rubbed in self-destructive behaviour and filth until the time when we are supposed to accept that our inchoate hero suddenly discovers that he is soft in the middle and really wants to change. Even so, he cannot control himself before one last hurrah, and goes crawling back unable even to say that he is sorry. Dialogue is understandably rudimentary, unintelligible and largely absent in favour of shots pregnant with meaning (flowers equal the blossoming of their relationship; a dead moth its debacle). Modishly slow, and without the discretion or resonance of Brokeback Mountain's outdoor exertions, this is unlikely to fill up many scorecards outside the Lesbian-Gay community.
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Francis Lee
Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
Synopsis:
Johnny relieves the boredom of working for his sickening dad on their Pennine sheep farm through binge drinking and rough sex, until they employ a Romanian itinerant worker who awakens him to the joys of living with nature.
Review:
As with so many British first features, we have our nose rubbed in self-destructive behaviour and filth until the time when we are supposed to accept that our inchoate hero suddenly discovers that he is soft in the middle and really wants to change. Even so, he cannot control himself before one last hurrah, and goes crawling back unable even to say that he is sorry. Dialogue is understandably rudimentary, unintelligible and largely absent in favour of shots pregnant with meaning (flowers equal the blossoming of their relationship; a dead moth its debacle). Modishly slow, and without the discretion or resonance of Brokeback Mountain's outdoor exertions, this is unlikely to fill up many scorecards outside the Lesbian-Gay community.