In another, the pair have sex in a cattle trailer. In one Johnny (Josh O’Connor) and Gheorghe (Alec Secăreanu) perform oral sex after wrestling on the ground. Viewers reported that at least two scenes were cut from God's Own Country, whose pastoral gay romance has been compared to Brokeback Mountain, albeit with more explicit scenes. distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films that 'butchered' his film 'without consultation to get more 'revenue’.'' Lee had not been informed of the cuts and cautioned other filmmakers against working with the distributor. 'It is not the film I intended or made,' Lee wrote Tuesday on the social media platform.Īfter a clarification from Amazon, Lee then said on Twitter it was U.S. viewers in the version available on Amazon Prime Video Direct. filmmaker behind the 2017 love story between a Yorkshire sheep farmer and a Romanian migrant worker, took to Twitter to call out censorship for U.S. There's now less gay sex in God's Own Country.įrancis Lee, the U.K. The Advocate has reached out to the distributor for comment. UPDATE: An Amazon representative reached out to The Advocate to assert that 'Amazon Prime Video did not censor the movie.' Rather, the edited version was uploaded to Prime Video Direct by the provider, said the rep, which in God's Own Country's case is Samuel Goldwyn Films.
