God's Own Country

God's Own Country

23/1/2017 1h 45m 7.8/10

Overview

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Director

Richard Stanley Jan Harris

Top Billed Cast

Josh O'Connor

Josh O'Connor

Johnny Saxby

Harry Lister Smith

Harry Lister Smith

Trainee Auctioneer

Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones

Deidre Saxby

Ian Hart

Ian Hart

Martin Saxby

Patsy Ferran

Patsy Ferran

Robyn

Alec Secăreanu

Alec Secăreanu

Gheorghe Ionescu

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/30/2024

8/10

Josh O'Connor ("Johnny") is excellent as the frustrated rural English farmer cruising through life on the bottle, peppered with the occasional romp with the only other gay in the village (Harry Lister Smith). His father (Ian Hart) has long since stopped being able to run their farm and can now only contribute to the futility of his son's existence. They recruit an itinerant Romanian worker (Alec Secaeanu) to help out with the heavy lifting and a bond quickly forms that initially induces confusion and conflict before they realise that what both truly seek they can find in the other. It's a film that doesn't pull it's punches; isn't at all sentimental and aside from the occasional gentleness provided by his mother (Gemma Craven) is much less of a sanitised "urban" story about homosexuality than perhaps we are used to.

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