A writer finds Pride and mystery in a small town. Country People is adapted from the award winning short story by LGBT fiction pioneer Richard Hall.
Country People (2016)
Je suis à toi (original title)
This well loved story is about a gay writer who moves to an enigmatic small town in the Country People is a love letter to LGBT literature, and to endless second chances.
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It is one of that short films reminding small, basic, fundamental truths in proper, simple, precise manner, in the package of a sort of nostalgia.
A professor living in a little comunity after the rest of his boyfriend. The owner of the little town shop has a proposition to him. He accepts and the result is just impressive to magic.
Its basic source of seduction is the honest perspective about self acceptance. The second part is just impressive , the message is so simple and the status of a sort of manifesto about fundamental form of freedom is the fair one in all the senses.
A film about meeting with yourself. I saw it being myself teacher and, years ago, imagining a sort of course like it.
The visit of cemetery and the powerful revelation is the most admirable aspect, not for transcental side but for the message about reconciliation with past painful events and, maybe, as wise definition of life.
I do not know the novel inspiring this short film. But the smart remind of what real matters, out of public opinion or social stigma is just great .
Artistic Statement, David Bobrow:
Gay fiction was a lifeline for many of us who came out pre-Internet. Twenty years of working as a psychiatrist has given me a sense of the strength of our history, the value of story and community. Richard Hall was one of a small group who forged a new kind of gay storytelling. His sister has provided photos and given context and urgency to this work, and reminded me that he was fighting to be seen and remembered. It’s not just a story of coming out, but a triumphal search for meaning and legacy.
