Director: Francis Lee
Writer: Francis Lee
Release Date: 1st September 2017
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥
In Francis Lee's feature film debut, he gives audiences a homoerotic romance as intense as the film's West Yorkshire landscape. The love between young farmer Jonny (Josh O'Connor), and Romanian migrant Gheorge (Alec Secareanu), is reflective of the film's pacing: slow, yet beautifully controlled. For Lee, who also hails from West Yorkshire, the film is a love letter to his birthplace, with wide shots offering an insight into the rurality of a farmer's life. In this environment, the diegetic soundtrack voices the character's passions. In turn, the twice-used musical soundtrack supplements the men's emotions, acting as signposts for their developing relationship. It is perhaps cynical to criticise the plot's predictability, for O'Connor and Secrareanu's performances validate their characters respective motives, yet the conclusion trundles away from the brilliance of the first two acts. Nonetheless, Lee constructs a romance that, much like the springtime of the film, is bursting with life.
Writer: Francis Lee
Release Date: 1st September 2017
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥
In Francis Lee's feature film debut, he gives audiences a homoerotic romance as intense as the film's West Yorkshire landscape. The love between young farmer Jonny (Josh O'Connor), and Romanian migrant Gheorge (Alec Secareanu), is reflective of the film's pacing: slow, yet beautifully controlled. For Lee, who also hails from West Yorkshire, the film is a love letter to his birthplace, with wide shots offering an insight into the rurality of a farmer's life. In this environment, the diegetic soundtrack voices the character's passions. In turn, the twice-used musical soundtrack supplements the men's emotions, acting as signposts for their developing relationship. It is perhaps cynical to criticise the plot's predictability, for O'Connor and Secrareanu's performances validate their characters respective motives, yet the conclusion trundles away from the brilliance of the first two acts. Nonetheless, Lee constructs a romance that, much like the springtime of the film, is bursting with life.
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