Der junge Farmer Johnny Saxby versucht, seinen Frust beim Komasaufen und Gelegenheitssex zu vergessen, bis die Ankunft eines rumänischen Wanderarbeiters eine intensive Beziehung entfacht, di... Alles lesenDer junge Farmer Johnny Saxby versucht, seinen Frust beim Komasaufen und Gelegenheitssex zu vergessen, bis die Ankunft eines rumänischen Wanderarbeiters eine intensive Beziehung entfacht, die Johnny auf einen ganz neuen Weg führt.Der junge Farmer Johnny Saxby versucht, seinen Frust beim Komasaufen und Gelegenheitssex zu vergessen, bis die Ankunft eines rumänischen Wanderarbeiters eine intensive Beziehung entfacht, die Johnny auf einen ganz neuen Weg führt.
- Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 32 Gewinne & 39 Nominierungen insgesamt
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Joshua James Richards shoots Yorkshire with a cinematic quality rarely seen in British film and operates his hand-held camera with an empathy and intuitiveness that allows him to capture many astonishingly intimate and truthful moments of performance.
It's these telling and tender moments which make up the film - small gestures that carry huge emotional weight. It is testament to Lee's writing and direction, and the performances of his entire cast, that these small moments (a glance, fingertips touching...) carry such a large emotional weight.
Life on a sheep farm is tough and lonely for Johnny (Josh O'Connor). Since his father's stroke, he runs the farm by himself but all he gets is scowling disapproval from his ageing parents. He vents his anger and frustration in drunken binges and rough furtive sex with other gay men in a village wary of anyone who is different. A handsome Romanian seasonal worker Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu) is hired to help during the lambing season and Johnny's rural racism erupts in verbal taunts. Called a gypsy once too often, Gheorghe confronts him with intense physicality and the relationship changes instantly. While tending the sheep, they spend a few nights in an isolated shelter and their first sexual encounter terrifies and confuses Johnny who has never known tenderness and emotional acceptance. Gheorghe's sensitivity compels Johnny to confront his inner fears and discover his emotional self.
This is a complex film on several levels. The story barely moves forward in this cold, lonely, inhospitable place, with the narrative energy coming entirely from its earthy filming style and intense, authentic characterisation. The camera accentuates the slow pace of life by lingering on empty spaces, small details, and nature's ways. A close-up of a butterfly, misty morning light, the birth of a lamb, panoramas of harsh beauty in frosty air, all take on meanings beyond what we see. The depth and nuance of acting by O'Connor and Secareanu is the film's powerhouse. The silences are long and dialogue sparse, and much is communicated through action. Initially there is little to like about Johnny: we cannot get close to someone who is so distant from himself. Gheorghe is the opposite: intuitive, warm, and empathetic. The chemistry between them progresses from turbulence to deep acceptance and each step of the journey is raw and exposed. Intimacy between males is still a frontier in cinema and this film breaks through.
Like Brokeback, this is a genre-defying, coming of age, drama-rich love story. Today's audiences expect realism in human relationship stories and this film offers a full-frontal exploration of masculine sexuality and emotional self-discovery. This is a love story of universal relevance that transcends the usual clichés of romance. It is brave cinema with cutting-edge honesty.
There's five main characters in the film: Johny the frustrated teen/young adult who reluctantly takes over his dad's farm while he's recovering from a stroke, the dad - a typical hardworking man of few words who, we learn, raised his son alone, the gran who is caring but no-nonsense/unsentimental, the newcomer Gheorghe, a young Romanian farmer with lots of experience and genuine interest for the farm, and then there's the farm itself. The farm has needs, moods, emergencies, and ultimately drives the plot.
It's not a story about the discovery of sexuality, it's a story about the discovery of love and camaraderie, as well as a story of acceptance. Johny's journey towards settling into a life as a farmer is more or less that of the five stages of grief: denial (assisted by heavy pass-out drinking), anger, bargaining, and depression. In this journey Gheorghe becomes his guiding light.
It's beautifully shot, nicely paced, and naturalistically acted. I can hardly find a fault in the artistic result. As for its emotional impact, I can say for sure that I was moved, not only by the love story, nor just by the understated yet powerful portrayal of family bonds, but also by the portrayal of farm life, which (having grown up in a similar setting myself, albeit far far away from the hills of Northern England) made me think how people can be united by common experiences a lot more than by language, ethnicity etc.
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- WissenswertesAll scenes containing graphic images of animals are real and were shot on location at a real farm near the director's childhood home, without using body doubles for the actors.
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Gheorghe Ionescu: My country is dead. You can't throw a rock in most towns without hitting an old lady crying for her children who have gone.
- VerbindungenFeatured in The EE British Academy Film Awards (2018)
- SoundtracksMost People Get Married
Performed by Patti Page
Composed by Earl Shuman and Leon Carr
Published by Chester Music Limited trading as Campbell Connelly & Co
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- Herkunftsland
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Box Office
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 335.609 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 17.768 $
- 29. Okt. 2017
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 3.726.889 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 44 Minuten
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- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.85 : 1