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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

samermi8 It is honestly by far my favorite lgbt movie, the actors the chemistry the details and obviously THE HAPPY ENDING. This movie is so perfect and enjoyable.

mhubbard-54657 The film depicts a young gay British man who is out of the closet. He accepts himself completely. and has anonymous sex, devoid of affection, whenever he can. He lives on the family farm. where his father has been ill. and has lost the ability to manage the place. There are numerous conflicts. To cope with his angst, the young man drinks too way too much. He throws up nearly every morning. A hired hand comes into the picture. and the two eventually begin a sexual relationship. Comparisons to Brokeback are inevitable. The film is emotionally bleak. but beautiful in spots. The dialogue is largely incomprehensible. The male lead learns about love, and is transformed to some degree. Not bad, but I would not see it twice.

meadmorechairs This is not a gay film, but it is a masterful film about the transmission of love . Johnny, the main character just happens incidentally to be gay, a fact that is never hidden, nor challenged but is as grudgingly accepted as are other characteristics such as drunkenness by the other characters he relates to. Relates is hardly an appropriate term for the displays of his anger, frustration and resentment that is largely evident through his inability to acknowledge and communicate his feelings on his path to self-destruction. Enter the low status itinerant worker who becomes the catalyst that displays an alternative role model to Johnny as they by and large go about the mundanities of working on the farm. The magic woven by the quiet presence of this stranger is Shakespearian in its impact, with Biblical parallels. The love that has lain beneath the surface of each of the main characters emerges achingly slowly with subtlety and inevitability . As sure as the sun insinuates itself onto the frozen fields, the heads lift, the eyes open and the hearts beat louder than the ever present wind. Love is awakened, for the animals for the previously hidden beauty of the harsh landscape, and for each of the characters for each other. Each in their own way they begin to communicate the care they feel for everything and everyone around them. And not least is Johnnys salvation through discovering his repressed feelings for the farm the animals his disabled father, his stoic grandmother and his lover. But most of all he discovers self-love. And they all walk taller. This is not a gay film . It is a film about hope and it is portrayed on screen with as much love and as surely as if it was a love poem.

mrs-madrigal Down on the farm ... No, seriously. Down on the farm is how this film really opens.Finally! A romantic film for gays without the obscene gratuitous tragedy still seen in LGBT cinema ... in this day and age!This is a great film with two main characters supported by a few well known actors, such as Gemma Jones (Nan), aka Madame Pomfrey, from the Harry Potter series. Whutcanisay? I'm a Potter fan and Madame Pomfrey was one of the memorable characters not often seen. Go figure. A then there's Ian Hart (Martin), aka Professor Quirrell from...yup, Harry Potter! Yessss! Both of these actors have a list of marvelous theatrical accomplishments as long as my arm, but the Potter characters are the most memorable for me. It took me a few minutes to place Ian Hart because he so completely immersed himself in the character of the father in this film. The story cleverly depicts, and often with frustrating realism, how a man comes to to accept if not fully understand his sexuality. The angst and anger is often visceral and provocative; however, thank the gods, the film doesn't dwell too much on these emotional liabilities but moves on to a very unexpected romance with a Romanian man hired for "just a week" to help out on the farm.The director deftly allows Johnny, played by uber-hottie Josh O'Connor (ahhh, those hot Summers in Corfu!), to evolve both emotionally and to a lesser degree physically as he becomes exposed, and later involved with the good looking Romanian hired hand, Gheorghe, played by gorgeous Alec Secareanu. Their relationship, such as it is, develops, but barely. A few angry physical entanglements and a few other physical entanglements ... oh yeah, THOSE kinds of entanglements ... later and they become a couple. Sort of.Without revealing any spoilers, the film ends without tragedy. Drama, yes a fair bit. Sexual tension? Oh good gravy, you betcha!This is easily one of the best love stories -- gay or straight -- I've seen in a long while. It's a film in which the subtext accurately depicts how our community of LGBT individuals more often than not respond to love, kindness and deep affection.These characters are not presented as victims of circumstance but rather heroes in how they grow and develop into strong, loving gay men who can lead rich and fulfilling lives together -- down on the farm. (Hey, I was compelled.)And that, boys and girls, makes for jolly damn good cinema. Period.