3.8
“A few want power to control. Two need freedom to love.”
West of Eden (2017)
March 9, 20171h 58mEN
4.6
16 votes
Overview
New Zealand independent drama following a young Māori man who moves to the country to rebuild his life after facing prejudices around his sexual orientation. He takes on a job on a farm where he grows attached to the farmer’s son. But when their relationship grows, the situation steers into darker territories…
Director
Alastair RiddellWriter
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
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Production Companies
Little Red Hen
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CinemaSerf
4.0This is quite a good looking, though shockingly slow tale of a young gay man who leaves his family to work on a remote farm to escape the bigotry (and brutality) of his former workplace. Snag is, when he arrives he meets and falls head over heels for the young son of the owner of his new farm in rural New Zealand. To be fair to both Kieran Foster in the lead as "Billy" and his very pretty love interest "Tom" (Luke Thompson) they both perform well enough, its just the pace and the direction that meander uphill in a thunderstorm. It does attempt to appraise the prejudices and hatred that existed…
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