God's Own Country
Yorkshire sheep farming, and two men with nothing to say.
The British answer to Brokeback, and it lets them stay.
- 2017
- 104 min
- 98% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.6 on IMDb
- #romance
- #drama
Our take
A young farmer drinking himself through a bleak Yorkshire winter meets the Romanian migrant worker hired for lambing season. It is cold, muddy and almost wordless for long stretches, and the tenderness, when it arrives, is all the more startling for it.
Francis Lee shoots farm work with no romanticism whatsoever, which is what makes the relationship believable — these are two people who are physically exhausted and reaching for each other anyway. Comparisons to Brokeback Mountain are fair, with one crucial difference: this one gives them a future.
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 4 out of 5 rainbows. The British answer to Brokeback, and it lets them stay.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 98%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.6 out of 10 from 40,875 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 85 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 7.7 out of 10 from 998 votes, refreshed daily.
The plot, officially
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.