Unlike gay romances such as “Brokeback Mountain” and “Call Me by Your Name,” “God’s Own Country” depicts explicit sex scenes and full frontal male nudity. Some of Lee’s social ...

Francis Lee, the director of the film "God's Own Country," recanted his callfor a boycott of Amazon for appearing to censor gay sex scenes from his 2017 film, stating that after investigation ...

British film director Francis Lee is urging viewers in the U.S. to boycott his 2017 award-winning debut, “God’s Own Country,” on Amazon Prime, after learning that some gay love scenes ...

Of course, it was the difference in tone that those sex scenes took on that most often occasioned comparisons between God’s Own Country and Call Me By Your Name. The latter got dinged by a few ...

The editing and pacing in this first section of “God’s Own Country” is promisingly fast and intuitive, and the sex scene between Johnny and the blond boy has a very erotic furtive feeling.

As you might imagine, no one risked coming out. When I first watched God’s Own Country (2017) I found its setting not just striking but absurdly moving. Francis Lee’s directorial debut co ...