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Francis Lee (born 1969 [1]) is an English filmmaker who has written and directed the films God's Own Country (2017) and Ammonite (2020). Life and career. Francis Lee grew up on his family's farm in Soyland, Calderdale, West Yorkshire. After finishing school, he studied acting at the Rose Bruford College and worked in the theatre afterwards. [2] .
A largely self-taught filmmaker who resisted the ‘rules’ of writing - though found truth in the subtext of Chekov’s plays - he has come to the job of writer/director via a handful of shorts following a modest acting career. Lee found the yearning passion between his leads by holding them apart.
Nov 10, 2020 · The film world loves to discover a new director with a strong voice. That’s what Francis Lee created with “God’s Own Country,” a rare look at rural working-class men in love. Lee knew the...
Nov 9, 2017 · Francis Lee had personal issues to work out. So he made God's Own Country and brought gay romance to a whole new level.
Mar 24, 2021 · He is the writer-director of two coruscating English romances, ardent but austere, in which marginalised, working-class characters, living in isolated rural communities, have their armour...
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Tricia Tuttle, director of the 2020 BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express, talks to Francis Lee, director of Ammonite. With Ammonite,...
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Sep 12, 2020 · Written and directed by Francis Lee, the film is set in 1840s Dorset, England. There the paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) spends her time mostly alone by the seaside looking for fossils.
