I've watched this film half a dozen times and I never get tired of it. I think it's the best film about love that I have ever seen, romantic but never sentimental. And having lived in Suffolk and Essex for quite a lot of my life I think it's also the best film about England, not in the sense of showing Big Ben and red buses and bobbies in pointy hats, but in the way in which it gets inside the people, the way their occasional stiffness is punctuated by humour and compassion, the way in which they plug on and work through their problems without self-dramatization, the way in which people of apparently incompatible social origins get along together and money is generally just something you need to pay the rent and otherwise no big deal. Whether that England still exists I can't say, it seems to be disappearing fast. I won't make any remark about the story, you can find that out for yourself.
Review of The Land Girls
