Release dates
January 30, 2018
89 months agoVOD / DVD
Released
TBA
God's Own Country release date
The anticipated movie God's Own Country is already released on Cinema, VOD and DVD in the USA. The upcoming Blu-ray release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 11 reviews, God's Own Country gets an average review score of 79
But the chemistry between these two men is inescapable, their relationship growing almost imperceptibly, composed expertly in a nuanced script by Lee and unfussily filmed by director of photography Joshua James Richards (Songs My Brothers Taught Me).
2733d ago
God’s Own Country weaves a rough magic from Joshua James Richards’s biting cinematography and the story’s slow, unsteady arc from bitter to hopeful.
2733d ago
A closed-off young Yorkshire sheep farmer gets jolted out of his emotional numbness when an intense relationship develops with a Romanian itinerant worker in Francis Lee's debut feature.
2733d ago
In Francis Lee's God's Own Country, it's tenderness that's ultimately aligned with life-giving strength.
2733d ago
Johnny (Josh O’Connor), the twentysomething son of an ailing sheep farmer (Ian Hart), doesn’t expect much from his life in rural Yorkshire beyond several pints and an anonymous bunk-up. But his perfunctory existence is turned upside-down when Romanian farmhand Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu) arrives for lambing season.
2733d ago
This Yorkshire-set story about a relationship between a farmer and an immigrant worker is a beautifully judged, unsentimental study from first time director Francis Lee.
2733d ago
British freshman helmer Francis Lee earns his 'Brokeback Mountain' quotations with a deeply felt gay romance set on the Yorkshire moors.
2733d ago
A Brokeback Mountain for the Yorkshire Moors.
2733d ago
Johnny Saxby, the protagonist of Francis Lee’s impressive feature directorial debut, “God’s Own Country,” is a difficult character to like for quite a while.
2733d ago
Both actors make you believe these characters have honestly fallen for each other in a short time frame and O’Connor, in particular, makes Johnny’s transformation over the final third of the film heartbreaking. And that might just be enough to shine a new spotlight on a familiar story.
2733d ago
Sundance 2017: What begins as furtive and erotic becomes too distanced and lacking in nuance to succeed.
2733d ago