This Filthy Earth (2001)

Essential Viewing

UK

Feature Film

Director: Andrew Kötting

Writers: Andrew Kötting, Sean Lock, Émile Zola

Cinematographer: Nick Gordon Smith

Composer: David Burnand

Cast: Rebecca R. Palmer, Shane Attwooll, Demelza Randall, Xavier Tchili, Dudley Sutton, Ina Clough, Peter-Hugo Daly

Adapted (with the aid of comedian Sean Lock) from Émile Zola’s 1887 novel La Terre, Kötting’s formally audacious, intensely visceral, and blackly humorous misanthropic masterpiece brilliantly regales us with rural tales of sex, violence, superstition, and ignorance, filled with bodily fluids, guttural Yorkshire explosions, and a great deal of filthy earth. Iain.Stott