Rent God's Own Country (2017)

HANNAH HAUXWELL MEETS BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN! - God's Own Country review by WH

Quite possibly the BEST British film with a gay theme. Its up there alongside Merchant & Ivory's ' Maurice' and Dirk Borardes 1961 groundbreaking 'Victim'. Owing much to Brokeback Mountain- it is a far more realistic representation of a gay man's life- growing up in a close-knit family farm on the North York Morors in the UK. The direction is excellent- as is the cinematography and acting. Really my only criticism would be over the 'deleted scenes'. Personally I don't think any of them need to have been deleted! Highly recommended.

Brokeback Mountain meets Ilkley Moor bah tat - God's Own Country review by Pete W

A rather familiar storyline very much based on Brokeback Mountain and some of the scenes and motifs are a direct lift - strip down washes in a bucket, skinny dipping, left behind clothing - but I don't think this detracts from the story. Unlikely to do much to encourage people to take up farming in Yorkshire amongst the racists in the pub, it is a touching story of how an emotionally repressed young farmer gradually realises that he needs help and support from an immigrant worker with whom he has developed a relationship more meaningful than the quick shags in the back of his trailer or in pub toilets. Good performances from the two leads but strong support too from Gemma Jones as a grandmother who knows more than she lets on and Ian Hart as father incapacitated by a stroke.

Exceptional cinematography - God's Own Country review by TB

To call this film a Yorkshire version of Brokeback Mountain, serves as a massive discredit to what is an excellent film. Brokeback Mountain was a good film but was pretentious and over dramatised in places as per most Hollywood films. Whereas this film was believable, raw and emotional. It also had exceptional cinematography, which could have easily of seen the film play out without any words needed at all.

The acting was solid by all four of the main characters to deliver two key relationships in the film with great quality. The relationship between the father and son was tense and heartless but became so beautifully tender in the end. While the homosexual relationship between the son and the new farmhand had scenes that were poetic and powerful as two different characters battled with each other along their journey, seeing the troubled son going from an angry, lost and confused young man to someone who wanted to become a man and someone who had been deeply touched by the love and affection he’d never seemingly been shown.

An excellent film!