God's Own Country | Official Trailer (Cornwall Film Festival 2017)

God's Own Country Dir: Francis Lee|UK|2017|104 mins + Talk with Patrick Gale

God's Own Country has been picking up awards left and right, including the best director prize at Sundance and the prestigious Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh Film Festival
Francis Lee's remarkable debut feature tells the story of Johnny Saxby, a taciturn young man, who lives on a failing Yorkshire farm with his father and grandmother. Unhappy and frustrated with his life, he numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex. But when Gheorghe, a Romanian migrant worker, is brought in to help during lambing season, it ignites an intense relationship between them that sets Johnny on a new path.

It's a perceptive and intelligent film and a worthy winner of our British breakthrough first-time filmmaker award with outstanding ensemble performances. The Yorkshire-born Lee eschews sentimentality for realism, acknowledging that while the British countryside is beautiful, it can also be wild, lonely and profoundly estranging.

[eleneglad_]

One of the best movies i have seen by far. The cinematography is so beautiful

[lighttube]

The perfect combination of these two actors, I recommend to everyone.

[jaesarautu]

Am I the only one getting BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN vibes?🤷‍♀️

[ranggakd]

Didn't you think there was a connection between romantic trait and a Romanian man?