For filmmaker Francis Lee, his lesbian love story Ammonite between notable 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning and socialite Charlotte Murchison wasn’t so much a response to the uber-conservative culture we’ve experienced over the past four years, rather, it was more personal for the 2017 Sundance-winning filmmaker of God’s Own Country. “I’m a working class person, and I’m also queer and with Ammonite, what I was trying to do was find a way for me to understand my journey about feeling like, or sometimes or often, an outsider.
How do you have to forge your own path? You don’t necessarily go down the well-trodden path because of the circumstance. So, how do you circum-navigate or go in a slightly different direction to find your own
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