Enthusiasm Years: Lee and Brokeback Mountain

enthusiasm years: With the release of God's Own Country from British filmmaker Francis Lee, we could see a resurgence of the same resounding enthusiasm 12 years later, according to NOW Magazine. Critics at festivals around the world, including Sundance earlier this year, have lavished Lee's film with accolades that he didn't see coming. It wasn't until Ang Lee's groundbreaking 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain, that a broad audience of filmgoers embraced the possibility of being moved by a tale of gay romance. A total surprise, Lee says. I just had a need to tell this story, not knowing what would ever happen once I'd written it. No one ever asked me to write the film or develop it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.