God's Own Country is a film that Clearly parallels Broke Back Mountain. The movie is basically about two farmers who fall in love, just like in BBM. Broke Back Mountain was one of Hollywood's most visible gay movies of all time. It is hard to know if a gay film will ever generate as much buzz as Broke Back Mountain.
Though God's Own Country was not a blockbuster film like BBM, it is worthy of being watched, especially if you identify as a gay person. There is an honesty and purity to this film that was not in BBM. Perhaps, the love between Alec Secareanu's charchter and Josh O'Connor's is more believable because they are not big Hollywood names. For the most part both of these actors are widely unknown, though both men must be fairly talented actors to play gay so convincingly.
The pace of the movie is rather slow, which is why I could not give the film a higher rating. There are times the movie is simply not engaging or captivating enough to hold an audiences attention, though the overall movie is good, calling a movie remarkable simply because it has gay characters is a bit of an insult to film. A good film needs more than gay characters to be noteworthy and as a rule gay film's are rarely, good. That is not to say that Francis Lee did not write a strong artistic piece, it's just not very commercial of popcorn friendly, but not all movies have to be.
What I will say is the characters end up having sex through believable ways that are not romanticized. It's nice that the charterers are focused on each other and not in engagements with women. As bold as film tries to be most film still shows gays in the closet, instead of being free to love. At least this movie has an element of freedom in the characters spirits and strength towards how they love each other.
Though God's Own Country was not a blockbuster film like BBM, it is worthy of being watched, especially if you identify as a gay person. There is an honesty and purity to this film that was not in BBM. Perhaps, the love between Alec Secareanu's charchter and Josh O'Connor's is more believable because they are not big Hollywood names. For the most part both of these actors are widely unknown, though both men must be fairly talented actors to play gay so convincingly.
The pace of the movie is rather slow, which is why I could not give the film a higher rating. There are times the movie is simply not engaging or captivating enough to hold an audiences attention, though the overall movie is good, calling a movie remarkable simply because it has gay characters is a bit of an insult to film. A good film needs more than gay characters to be noteworthy and as a rule gay film's are rarely, good. That is not to say that Francis Lee did not write a strong artistic piece, it's just not very commercial of popcorn friendly, but not all movies have to be.
What I will say is the characters end up having sex through believable ways that are not romanticized. It's nice that the charterers are focused on each other and not in engagements with women. As bold as film tries to be most film still shows gays in the closet, instead of being free to love. At least this movie has an element of freedom in the characters spirits and strength towards how they love each other.