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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 831 Flicking #36: God’s Own Country

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you want to make our Hannah angry, simply refer to God’s Own Country, Francis Lee’s 2017 film about love between an isolated young sheep farmer (Josh O’Connor) and a Romanian migrant worker (Alex Secareanu) set on a failing farm, as the Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain and watch her Bruce Banner it up. And right enough. It’s fair to say that love for this film, for its cast (hello also Ian Hart and Gemma Jones) and for its closing song from Patrick Wolf is in the air for Yosra and Mick, too. So please enjoy three women having a lovely chat about a wonderful bit of cinema.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were three ordinary women, on what seemed like a simple mission, to find a film

0:07.0

they liked. One where women got something to do, and not just look pretty or be murdered,

0:13.7

which, to be totally honest, has complicated matters, abit. Welcome to Flicking. Yes,

0:21.1

it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.

0:25.7

Hello, and welcome to this month's Flicking. Our monthly take on one of our favourite films.

0:31.5

One of us picks their favourite film, the other two, either piss on it or declare it an absolute winner.

0:37.5

The two potentially pissing this month are me, Mickey Nguyenin, and Yossera Osman, Yossi, hello.

0:43.3

Hello Flickers. Well, that's rude. And the woman putting one of her favourite films on the line

0:52.4

is the Hannah Dunneeby. Hey, Hannah. Sorry. Hello. Hello. Hello. We're going to cut that

0:58.4

bit. Hello, coughing movie cut out. I'll try to keep it in. I've had Cava, but everybody knows that.

1:03.9

So I think there will be less pissing in this one, because I kind of know, but I don't know. I've

1:10.0

got myself near a dry stone wall just in case the need takes me. This month we watched God's

1:17.1

own country, Francis Lees' debut film released in 2017. Why do I love it? Well, because I love

1:24.8

everyone in it, but I especially love Ian Hart and Yorkshire and Baby Lands and gay romance.

1:33.5

And I think it's really astute, and it manages to say a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff,

1:38.7

despite huge chunks of it taking place in complete silence. I'm going to do a little bit of a plot

1:43.7

for anyone who hasn't seen it, but as I always say here, if you haven't seen it, stop listening

1:47.6

to this and go and watch it. John Saxby, who is played by the crown's Josh O'Connor,

1:53.7

is trying to run his family's Yorkshire farm pretty much single-handedly. His mum ran off

2:00.5

down south years ago, his dad, who is played by Ian Hart recently had a stroke, which has left him

2:06.5

mostly unable to work, and his grandmother played with a Catherine K. Wood level of worry face by

2:12.0

Gemma Jones. There's between bolicking him for working too hard and bolicking him for not working

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