Farming

Name: Farming
Genre: Drama
Released: October 25, 2019
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ann Mitchell, Cosmo Jarvis, Damson Idris, Genevieve Nnaji

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GEM Entertainment | Release Date: October 25, 2019 | R

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ann Mitchell, Cosmo Jarvis, Damson Idris, Genevieve Nnaji, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jaime Winstone, John Dagleish, Kate Beckinsale, Lee Ross, Paul O'Kelly, Skye Lourie, Theo Barklem Biggs, Tom Canton, Zach Avery

Summary: Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Farming charts the extraordinary journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy who, struggling to find an identity, falls in with a skinhead gang in 1980’s England.

Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Allan Hunter

Oct 24, 2019

Told with raw emotion and lurid violence, it transforms elements of his life story into a disturbing, eye-opening coming of age drama. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 24, 2019

Farming is a tough film on a tough subject. There’s not much light and shade – but there can’t have been much light and shade going through it in real life – and Gubu Mbatha-Raw’s role as the concerned teacher is weakly drawn. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

Oct 24, 2019

It has a kernel of raw torment and an unforgiving streak that hints at still-unreconciled wounds, too. It’s not the best film of the year, but it’s definitely one of the most personal. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Oct 24, 2019

Some distance between the source and the story would have benefited the themes at play, which end up buried beneath punches, slurs and bestial masculinity. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Oct 24, 2019

Closely based on the director's own troubled youth, Farming is rooted in rich, complex, potentially gripping material. But Akinnuoye-Agbaje slaps this story together with so little subtlety, he ends up seriously diluting its dramatic power. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Oct 24, 2019

Unremittingly, bludgeoningly bleak in its portrayal of his own degradation and humiliation, and displaying only a passing interest in his eventual rehabilitation, the film is remarkable for its lack of self-pity, but it makes the experience of “Farming” a merciless one for the audience too. Read full review

Simran Hans

Oct 24, 2019

Enitan’s trauma is revelled in but for what? Few new truths are learned here. A rushed, redemptive montage towards the film’s end is presented as ickily aspirational. Read full review

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May 21, 2023

Decent watch. Something different. I'm not a fan of woke films but luckily this treads the fine line correctly and isn't woke at all. Kept me watching to the end.

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JLuis_001

Jan 26, 2022

A story about a black kid joining a white skinhead gang in the 1980s.
Starting there this film lends itself to all kinds of controversial arguments, and yet the handling of its director, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, fails to give his debut the necessary strength to handle a subject like this.A story about a black kid joining a white skinhead gang in the 1980s.
Starting there this film lends itself to all kinds of controversial arguments, and yet the handling of its director, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, fails to give his debut the necessary strength to handle a subject like this.

The subject matter is raw and delicate and the director doesn't shy away from being equally raw with his narrative handling, but despite this, there is a void that he cannot fill to make his story more complex and emotional.

I applaud the work of his cast, especially his young lead Damson Idris, but this film fell far short of what it could have represented.… Expand

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