A dig into the nature of humanity from a director already fluent in the language of brutality and tenderness. A stunning love story that in its finest moments is pure poetry.
You’ll find yourself getting teary a week later – a potent, haunting meditation on the soul-stirring significance of being open to love.
This is a highly impressive debut feature: bleak and lyrical by turns, and with very fine performances from its two young leads.
An outstanding debut feature.
A disaffected farmer’s fling with a Romanian worker reawakens his love of the land in Francis Lee’s tender, impressive debut.
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