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“On The Sea” is a sensitively played story of forbidden gay love. Shades of “Brokeback Mountain” hover over this thoughtful film about life in a tough and small-minded Welsh fishing village.

If circumstances had been different, Jack might have left his small, despondent hometown on the Welsh coast. He might have followed a career outside the family business instead of slogging with a rake and a bucket on the mussel beds. He might even have been able to live as an out gay man without having to endure sneers and barely veiled hostility. But the wide open skies in his corner of the world are at odds with the narrow horizons Jack faced as a young man.

Having been married to Maggie for more than half his life, Jack starts to question his journey here. Two factors shift his perspective: one is a cancer diagnosis (he is now in remission), the other the arrival of itinerant fishing boat skipper Daniel. “On The Sea” explores the collision of gay sexual awakening and repressed self-loathing, which unfolds in working-class rural Britain, where masculinity comes with a rigid set of rules. The film becomes a quiet, sensual exploration of closeted desire, masculinity, aging, family, and the frightening possibility of changing your life.

It is deliberately slow-burning rather than a conventional romance, with an often bleak but beautiful coastal setting and some notably frank sex scenes. The raw desire between Jack and Daniel is sensitively awakened.