The rereleased Merchant-Ivory film picts gay love wh a straightforwardns that few films sce have matched, says Guardian lumnist Charlotte Higgs
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- EXCLIVE: GAY FARMER FILM THAT’S ‘BETTER THAN BROKEBACK MOUNTA’ REVEALS BRILLIANT NEW POSTER
- GOD'S OWN COUNTRY'S GAY SEX SCEN CENSORED ON AMAZON
EXCLIVE: GAY FARMER FILM THAT’S ‘BETTER THAN BROKEBACK MOUNTA’ REVEALS BRILLIANT NEW POSTER
God’s Own Country film review: gay love story set the Yorkshire untrysi.
GOD'S OWN COUNTRY'S GAY SEX SCEN CENSORED ON AMAZON
But if A Room Wh a View was sunny, romantic and charmg, Mrice, by ntrast, seemed darker, more broodg – and more, well, gay. Mrice, a crisis of self-loathg, seeks a “cure” for his homosexualy, before fallg love wh Clive’s gamekeeper, Scudr, played by Rupert film – released the year before the troductn of sectn 28, and to the midst of the Aids crisis – was rpectfully received but has never had anythg like the popular, Middle England appeal of A Room Wh a View. In Mrice, the gay lovers mt fd a life beyond nventnal unrstandgs of domticy.
And the most quietly radil fact about that may not be that Johnny and Ghehe are gay – but rather than Ghehe is a Romanian immigrant.