A story about a gay man that's not about the struggles of being a gay man. For once. He's struggling with being a better person instead. Huzzah!
The story just happens; A man who works on his family's sheep farm is basically a wayward fuckup who deals with the monotony of his life in self destructive ways, and goes to a responsible person when he falls in love with the Romanian immigrant who has been hired to help out for a week.
Probably because of wacky international distribution laws, this made no impact at the Oscars, but perhaps it will this year, after all, we need to keep that gay love story train rolling for a third year consecutively, and, if the pattern continues, this would be between legal adults.
I was more shocked at the straightforward portrayal of operating a sheep farm - from insemination to execution of the slightly-more-than-stillborn ewes, to skinning the body.
Nice to see a movie where it's not a movie about the trials of being gay. It's not irrelevant to the story, and it doesn't try to paint him as a perfect person just because of his orientation.
It's a simple way of shooting and telling a film - some long landscape shots, organic background noise - I don't think there's even a score in this movie.
It can join my collection of gay romance movies alongside Moonlight and The Handmaiden.
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