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Filth in the farmyard

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20011101
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THIS FILTHY EARTH .

Cert 15, 111 mins

RARELY has a film been more appropriately titled.

Andrew Ktting's compression of Emile Zola's Earth with John Berger's Pig Earth is one of the dirtiest movies I've ever seen. Set in an unnamed farming village somewhere in rural Yorkshire, it is filled with mud, rain, blood, pus, vomit, semen, piss and shit in an attempt to render the rural life as roughly realistic as possible. Imagine Cold Comfort Farm multiplied by a million. Without the jokes.

It opens with an erect penis on the verge of ejaculation. The member belongs to a bull which is being ...

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