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Queer indie dramas are an entire subgenre, and I am OBSESSED!!! I just wanted to shoutout some of my favorites real quick.
(Warning: These films will rip your heart out and then put it back together again.)
God’s Own Country (2017)
This film takes place in the Yorkshire countryside and is basically Brokeback Mountain with a happy ending. It is nitty-gritty and rough around the edges and kind of hard to watch at parts, but there’s so much tenderness woven throughout. Francis Lee did an outstanding job, especially considering this was his first film. Plus, it has a cutie baby Josh O’Connor in it 🥰
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
This film is about a painter who is hired to do the wedding portrait of a young woman who is engaged to be married to a nobleman. She refuses to sit for the portrait, so it must be done without her knowledge. Marianne poses as her companion so she can study her features for the portrait, but an intense emotional connection forms. It’s a very artsy very French film, but it’s so beautiful and emotional and the intimacy and care between Marianne and Heloise melts my heart 🥺 I also love the friendship they have with the young maid, Sophie.
Weekend (2011)
This film takes place over the course of a weekend as two men have a Friday night hookup but then start talking the following morning and realize that maybe there’s something there. They’re at different places in their coming-out journey, but they spend the entire weekend together in a little bubble, talking and getting to know one another. And then as the weekend comes to a close, they realize that they’re starting to genuinely fall in love. It’s a quiet, introspective film and it brings up some really important conversations around sexuality as well.
Boys/Jongens (2014)
I always call this film Dutch Heartstopper and I watched it on repeat in the days leading up to Heartstopper’s release. The plotting is very similar, although the tone is quite different. Two boys meet when they are on the same relay team at school. One is a year older and more confident in his sexuality and the younger is still struggling to figure himself out but knows that he is irresistibly attracted to his new best friend. This film has butterflies and first kisses and first love, and I will always recommend it to fans of Heartstopper!
I just want to point out that I complained yesterday on tumblr about God’s own country not being online and it’s online today in HD. Same thing happened when I complained about Thor ragnarok 😚😏
I want you to come back. With me. And I want us to be together.
God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee
Josh O'Connor & Alec Secăreanu - God’s Own Country, 2017.
Finished Maurice yesterday, wonderful movie, highly recommend. Though fair warning, there are a couple conversion "therapy" scenes that were pretty heavy, but on the bright side it does have a good ending.
Started reading Maurice and can't finish it yet because I'm currently not home so naturally it's time to watch the movie
I want you to come back. With me. And I want us to be together. I don’t want to be a fuck-up anymore.
God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee
Josh O'Connor and Alec Secăreanu as Johnny Saxby and Gheorghe Ionescu
God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee
I'm tryin' to do this. Don't you see? I'm trying to sort it out. And I've come all this way up here, on a coach and everything. And I want you to come back. With me. And I want us to be together. I don't wanna be a fuck-up anymore. I want to be with ya.
GOD'S OWN COUNTRY 2017, dir. Francis Lee
Josh O'Connor and Alec Secăreanu in GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017, dir. Francis Lee)
God’s Own Country (2017) // dir. Francis Lee
Josh is hot!
JOSH O'CONNOR God's Own Country (2017)
I'm tryin' to do this. Don't you see? I'm trying to sort it out. And I've come all this way up here, on a coach and everything. And I want you to come back. With me. And I want us to be together. I don't wanna be a fuck-up anymore. I want to be with ya.
GOD'S OWN COUNTRY 2017, dir. Francis Lee