God's Own Country – Canterbury Film Society

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This screening is director Francis Lee's ‘God's Own Country’.

Filmed on the Yorkshire Dales where he grew up, Francis Lee’s debut tells the poignant story of a hard-drinking lad who keeps his emotions in check until a handsome Romanian immigrant comes to work on the family farm.

Writer/director Francis Lee, raised on a Yorkshire farm himself, delineates their explosive courtship convincingly and poignantly. Reimagining Brokeback Mountain for a less homophobic age, God’s Own Country does double service in a xenophobic age, finding renewal in the tenacity and vigour of immigrant aspiration.” ​— Bill Gosden, NZIFF 2017

A UK production, 2017, 105 minutes, HD, R16 (nudity, offensive language, sexual material & content that may disturb).

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