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Movie review: Francis Lee's 'God's Own Country' finds rapturous romance in the wilds of England

Toughness and tenderness duke it out to the bittersweet end of "God's Own Country," a transporting, wrenchingly acted love story set in the windswept wilds of northern England. A near-flawless first feature written and directed by Francis Lee, the movie tracks the aching bond that develops between two young men - one a Yorkshire lad who's toiled on his family farm his whole life, the other a Romanian migrant looking for little more than a place to work and rest his head.

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