Review: Head-butting, estranged sheep-farming brothers must unlock their horns in ‘Rams’
Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times
The gentle Australian comedy “Rams,” a remake of the highly regarded Icelandic submission to the 2016 Oscars, winningly puts viewers in the worn boots of stubborn sheep farmers and in the company of elderly brothers who can’t stop butting heads.
Colin (Sam Neill) is a kind fellow who greets his beloved flock each morning with a smiling “You’re beautiful … and you’re beautiful.” He’s respected in his close-knit, Western Australian sheep-farming community; he’s shyly warming up to local vet Kat (Miranda Richardson). He lives next door to an irascible, often drunk, but similarly competent farmer, Les (Michael Caton), whose prize rams are every bit as good as Colin’s and to whom he hasn’t spoken in 40 years. The two are, of course, brothers.
The gentle Australian comedy “Rams,” a remake of the highly regarded Icelandic submission to the 2016 Oscars, winningly puts viewers in the worn boots of stubborn sheep farmers and in the company of elderly brothers who can’t stop butting heads.
Colin (Sam Neill) is a kind fellow who greets his beloved flock each morning with a smiling “
You’re beautiful … and
you’re beautiful.” He’s respected in his close-knit, Western Australian sheep-farming community; he’s shyly warming up to local vet Kat (Miranda Richardson). He lives next door to an irascible, often drunk, but similarly competent farmer, Les (Michael Caton), whose prize rams are every bit as good as Colin’s and to whom he hasn’t spoken in 40 years. The two are, of course, brothers.
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