God's Own Country

Name: God's Own Country
Genre: Drama, Queer
Released: 2022-04-29
Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart, Harry Lister Smith

Spring. Yorkshire. Isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe, employed for the lambing season, ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.

God's Own Country

Francis Lee

United Kingdom 2017

English

Czech

104 min.

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In case it didn’t court Brokeback Mountain comparisons directly enough with its tale of two young sheep farmers finding love in a hopeless place, God’s Own Country seals the deal with one winkingly quoted shot: a work shirt draped on a wire hanger, poignantly removed from its wearer. Twelve years on, Ang Lee’s film has proven enough of a cultural milestone to merit such affectionate homage; luckily, Francis Lee’s tender, muscular Yorkshire romance has enough of an individual voice to get away with it, depicting a tentative romance between coarse English farm boy Johnny and the Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe who comes to work for the season. Intimacy doesn’t come naturally to a man who has been raised in a household where caring is expressed through work, but rather than over-exerting well-worn clichés about rural homophobia, the film reveals pockets of tolerance in unexpected places.

Credits

Director: Francis Lee

Screenplay: Francis Lee

Cinematography: Joshua James Richards

Music: A Winged Victory for the Sullen

Editing: Chris Wyatt

Production Design: Stéphane Collonge

Producer: Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling

Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart, Harry Lister Smith, Melanie Kilburn, Patsy Ferran, John McCrea, Naveed Choudhry

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