Tag: Brokeback Mountain

‘God’s Own Country’ Finds Room for Love

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God's Own Country on DVD“God’s Own Country” is at last on DVD.

The film focuses on Johnny (Josh O’Connor), a young man whose life is forever changed when he is forced to work with a Romanian immigrant on his Yorkshire farm.

Johnny simmers with rage, drinks himself blotto when he can and has quick sex with random locals.

But when his ailing father forces him to work with Gheorghe (the handsome Alec Secareanu), Johnny finds his irritation falling way to desire and then something much more powerful.

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Ten Years Later, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Just Won’t Quit

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A decade later, 'Brokeback Mountain's' power has not dimmed.
A decade later, ‘Brokeback Mountain’s’ power has not dimmed.

Ten years ago this month, “Brokeback Mountain” was released into movie theaters.

By all conventional box-office wisdom, the movie should have dropped like a stone, closed within a week and would have been but a footnote in film history.

What happened was far different.

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